Four railway crew members have been suspended for the two train accidents that occurred in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur and Etawah districts Saturday morning, an official said Monday.
As many as 11 people were killed when the Gorakhdham Express collided with the stationary Prayagraj Express in Kanpur. No casualties were reported when the Lichchavi Express rammed into [...]
Lucknow, Jan 2 (IANS) At least 10 people were killed and about 45 others injured in three train accidents in Uttar Pradesh on a fog-hit Saturday morning, officials said.
The accidents took place in Kanpur, Etawah and Allahabad districts.
All the 10 deaths occurred in the Kanpur accident when the Gorakhdham Express collided with the stationary Prayagraj [...]
Lucknow, Jan 2 (IANS) At least four people were killed and 40 others injured in three train accidents in Uttar Pradesh on a fog-hit Saturday morning, officials said.
The accidents took place in Kanpur, Etawah and Allahabad districts.
In the Kanpur accident, four people were killed and 35 injured when the Gorakhdham Express collided with the [...]
Lucknow, Jan 2 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh saw two train collisions early Saturday as dense fog enveloped most parts of north India. While five people were injured when two trains collided in Kanpur district, no casualties were reported in the accident in Etawah district, officials said.
The Gorakhdham Express and Prayagraj Express collided near the Panki railway [...]
Lucknow, Jan 2 (IANS) Two passenger trains collided in Uttar Pradesh’s Etawah district early Saturday due to dense fog, an official said. No casualties were reported.
The accident took place near Sarai Bhupat railway station in Etawah, some 300 km from here, when the Lichchavi Express collided with the Magadh Express.
‘It is yet to be ascertained [...]
Patna, Dec 26 (IANS) About a dozen armed robbers shot dead a passenger, seriously injured another and looted others on the Howrah-Amritsar Punjab Mail in Bihar’s Jamui district early Saturday, police said.
The deceased was shot by the robbers when he resisted the robbers on board the running train near Jhajha railway station, about 160 km [...]
Lucknow, Dec 24 (IANS) An engine of a passenger train caught fire when it hit a truck carrying liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinders at an unmanned railway crossing Thursday in Uttar Pradesh’s Farrukhabad district. No one, barring the truck driver, was injured, an official said.
‘It could have turned into a major accident, but with god’s [...]
Lucknow, Dec 16 (IANS) Panic gripped a railway station in Uttar Pradesh’s Firozabad district when four wagons of a train laden with coal caught fire, police said Wednesday.
No causality was reported in the accident that affected the busy Delhi-Howrah trunk rail route.
‘It could have resulted into a major incident. However, by the timely intervention of [...]
Lucknow, Dec 15 (IANS) Hundreds of activists of the Bundelkhand Ekikrit Party (BEP), demanding a Bundelkhand state, Tuesday vandalised a railway station and blocked rail tracks in Uttar Pradesh’s Mahoba district, stopping a train, officials said.
Shouting slogans for creation of a Bundelkhand state, protesters converged at the Ghutai railway station on the outskirts of Mahoba, [...]
Kolkata, Dec 12 (IANS) Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee Saturday announced compensation of Rs.500,000 and a job for a family member of a Government Railway Police (GRP) constable who was shot dead Friday while on duty on a train.
Banerjee also conveyed her ‘deep condolences’ to the victim Arun Bhadra’s family, an Eastern Railway statement said.
However, it [...]
Kolkata, Dec 12 (IANS) Maoists Saturday claimed responsibility for ambushing a passenger train in Malda in West Bengal that left a railway policeman dead, police said.
Seven Maoists boarded the 605 Up Katihar-Malda train in the guise of passengers and attacked the Government Railway Police (GRP) personnel between Samsi and Milangarh stations in Malda district Friday [...]
Lucknow, Dec 1 (IANS) The engine of a Delhi-bound Garib Rath Express Tuesday derailed in Barabanki district of Uttar Pradesh when the train hit a road roller at an unmanned crossing. The tracks were damaged in the process.
Rail traffic was disrupted on the busy Gorakhpur-Delhi route after the train coming from Bihar derailed. Barring the [...]
New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) ‘Please, don’t disturb trains,’ Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee appealed to Maoists Friday, a day after the rebels blew up track in Jharkhand derailing a passenger train and leaving a man dead.
Speaking to reporters in the parliament complex, Banerjee said that the railways were ‘a passenger friendly service’, catering mainly [...]
Lucknow, Nov 13 (IANS) It was a lucky escape for 10 people sitting inside a truck and a car when their vehicles were hit by a superfast train Friday at an unmanned railway crossing in Uttar Pradesh’s Jaunpur district, officials said.
The impact of the accident was so severe that the truck and the car were [...]
Lucknow, Nov 9 (IANS) Agitated over the sugarcane prices suggested by the government, hundreds of farmers took to the streets Monday, clashed with the police, damaged railway tracks, stopped trains, blocked highways and forced closure of shops in parts of western Uttar Pradesh, officials said.
Irate farmers removed fish plates and damaged railway tracks near Bawli [...]
Lucknow, Nov 9 (IANS) Agitated over the sugarcane prices suggested by the government, hundreds of farmers took to the streets Monday, damaged railway tracks, stopped trains, blocked highways and closed shops in parts of western Uttar Pradesh, police said.
Irate farmers removed fish plates and damaged railway tracks near Bawli railway station in Baghpat district, some [...]
Kalanaur (Haryana), Oct 30 (IANS) A goods train derailed in Yamunanagar district of Haryana Friday, disrupting rail traffic on Ambala-Saharanpur route for some time, an official said.
According to a Government Railway Police (GRP) official, three wagons of the goods train carrying coal derailed in Kalanaur town, around 100 km from state capital Chandigarh.
‘There was no [...]
Bhopal, Oct 30 (IANS) A bid to rape a Dalit woman in Sampark Kranti train was foiled by the passengers and the accused was handed over to the Government Railway Police (GRP) at Amla town in Madhya Pradesh, police said Friday.
According to police, the victim was travelling from Kishangarh to Delhi in the general compartment. [...]
New Delhi, Oct 28 (IANS) After a harrowing time when the Delhi-bound Bhubaneswar Rajdhani Express was held hostage by Maoists in West Bengal’s West Midnapore district Tuesday, passengers of the train finally breathed easy as they arrived in the national capital Wednesday, nearly 11 hours behind the schedule.
As the train chugged to a stop at [...]
New Delhi, Oct 28 (IANS) After a harrowing time when the Delhi-bound Bhubaneswar Rajdhani Express was held hostage by Maoists in West Bengal’s West Midnapore district Tuesday, passengers of the train finally breathed easy as they reached the national capital Wednesday.
As the train chugged to a stop at the New Delhi railway station here Wednesday [...]
Jamshedpur (Jharkhand), Oct 28 (ANI): Passengers, who were travelling by the Bhubaneswar-New Delhi Rajdhani Express, voiced their apprehensions over the lack of security measures on passenger trains.
They said that people travel in train like Rajdhani Express since it is considered to be a prestigious train. But it is a serious concern, if there are [...]
Bhopal, Oct 26 (IANS) A 23-year-old woman was allegedly gangraped by five people, including one in khaki uniform, at Katni railway station in Madhya Pradesh, police said Monday.
In a complaint lodged with the Government Railway Police (GRP) in Betul, the 23-year-old woman said she was assaulted late Saturday when she was waiting for her husband [...]
Bhopal, Oct 23 (IANS) Islamic terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) has sent a letter to Jhansi Railway Police, threatening to kill Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and other leaders, police said Friday.
‘Security of the chief minister has been enhanced after the letter was received by Jhansi Railway Police Superintendent Thursday,’ a police officer said.
The [...]
Patna, Oct 8 (IANS) A passenger was killed and at least 50 injured when the Amritsar-Katihar Amarpali Express express train derailed in Bihar, police said Thursday.
The engine and seven bogies of the train derailed late Wednesday between the Pasraha and Gauchari railway stations near Naugachia, about 160 km from here.
Railway sources said the accident [...]
Lucknow, Oct 4 (IANS) A 10-year-old boy, who was kidnapped from New Delhi Saturday afternoon, was rescued by the police at the Kanpur railway station in Uttar Pradesh early Sunday morning, officials said.
The Government Railway Police (GRP) also arrested the kidnapper Devendra, a rickshaw puller who used to live near the boy’s house in the [...]
Lucknow, Oct 2 (IANS) Rail traffic was disrupted on the busy Mumbai-Varanasi route after a goods train derailed in Uttar Pradesh, officials said Friday.
‘The accident occurred this (Friday) morning near the Cantt railway station in the Varanasi city. six wagons of the goods train derailed,’ Government Railway Police (GRP) inspector V.N. Dubey, told IANS over [...]
Kurukshetra (Haryana), Oct 2 (IANS) A passenger train derailed in this Haryana district Friday, disrupting rail traffic on the busy Ambala-Delhi route, officials said. No one was injured in the incident.
According to a Government Railway Police (GRP) official at Kurukshetra, the engine of the train went off the tracks after colliding with a buffalo Friday [...]
Kolkata, Sep 21 (IANS) Security arrangements at all major railway stations across West Bengal would be stepped up during Durga puja festival following an intelligence input from the central home ministry warning of some untoward incident in the state during this period, a senior police officer said Monday.
‘We’ve received an intelligence input from the union [...]
Patna, Sep 16 (IANS) Four people were arrested for molesting NCC girl cadets in a train in Bihar and four Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel, who failed to ensure their safety, were suspended, police said Wednesday.
A dozen NCC girl cadets travelling in the Maurya Express on the Hajipur-Muzaffarpur section of the East Central Railway were [...]
Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh), Sep. 13 (ANI): A Railway Police Force (RPF) head constable, who threw a 14-year-old boy from a running train near Kurhni in Bihar last week, has been arrested after being identified by the victim.
Shahabuddin, who lost his right leg in the incident, identified head constable Rameshwar Prasad during a test identification (IT) [...]
