students were injured when the cycle-van taking them to school fell into an 8ft-wide ditch after being hit from behind by a minibus in Howrah on Monday morning.The four boys and three girls, between 11 and 14 years and students of Kendriya Vidyalaya Liluah, sustained cuts and bruises. They were discharged after first-aid from a railway hospital near A Road, where the mishap occurred.“The minibus came...
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Gujarat is set to become the first state to have all of its railway tracks in broad gauge. Of almost 5,000km of railway track in the state, 3,000km track has already been converted into broad gauge. The rest 2,000km stretch of railway track will be converted into broad gauge in next three years.Announcing the development, minister of state for railways KH Muniyappa on Monday said that soon Gujarat...
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Railways, which isactively considering the adoption of a satellite-basednavigation system to track train movement, is also exploringthe technology to protect railway properties from ultras.Railway Ministry officials said the technology which willprovide real time information about train movement could alsobe used to detect explosives planted on railway tracks oridentify missing portion of tracks."With...
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RANCHI:Maoists tonight blew up a portion of rail track causing derailment of eightbogies of Tata-Bilaspur passenger train near Ghaghra Halt in Jharkhand's WestSinghbhum district."Maoists blew up a portion ofthe railway track which caused the derailment. Three bogies have been badlydamaged," Railway minister Mamata Banerjee told media from Delhi."I am monitoring the situationand have asked senior railway...
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Protesting against the transfer of the officer- in-charge of Bakhtiyarpur police station, a mob of local people today squatted on the railway tracks near Bakhtiyarpur railway station in Danapur rail division of the East Central Railways (ECR).Government Rail Police (GRP) sources said here that the agitators demonstrated and staged dharna on the railway tracks and stopped Tatanagar-Patna Express crossing...
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favourite Taj city Agra would no more witness traffic congestion at Agra Fort station after a new broad gauge track would be constructed very soon. Railway officials said here today that railway headquarter has sanctioned an additional broad gauge track at Agra Fort station with an approximate cost of Rs 4.5 crore.After completion of the track, Railways would run the Ajmer-Intercity Express from Agra...
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Hundreds of protesters today blocked railway tracks and held up Amritsar-Delhi Swarn Shatabdi Express here for about three hours in response to a 'Rail Roko' call given by various Sikh Organisations demanding justice for the '84 anti-Sikh riots victims' families.Passengers were stranded and schedule of many trains were disrupted at various places across the state due to the agitation.Slogan shouting...
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A 35-year-old man committed suicide by jumping on the railway tracks of Kolkata metro at Rabindra Sarobar station here Friday.Police said Arnab Mukhapadhyay suddenly jumped on the tracks when a Garia-bound train was entering the platform. The incident took place at 9.48 a.m."The body was recovered from the railway tracks. A case has been registered with the Charu Market police station," a senior police...
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man committed suicide by jumping on the railway tracks of Kolkata metro at Rabindra Sarobar station here Friday.Police said Arnab Mukhapadhyay suddenly jumped on the tracks when a Garia-bound train was entering the platform. The incident took place at 9.48 a.m."The body was recovered from the railway tracks. A case has been registered with the Charu Market police station," a senior police officer said.The...
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armoury at the Srirangapatna railway station, belonging to the era of Tipu Sultan and Hyder Ali will be cut into blocks and relocated by the railway authorities to expedite track doubling work between Mysore and Bangalore.that the armoury will be cut into blocks and reassembled in the first such exercise to relocate a monument to lay a railway track. This follows the official permission issued by the...
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