In a major collision between a Rolls-Royce Phantom and an oil truck on the Delhi-Expressway near the Umri village, Nuh, Haryana on Tuesday, the latter overturned and was engulfed in flames shortly after, killing the driver and his assistant on the spot. The duo got trapped inside and failing to escape out of the vehicle,…
VISAKHAPATNAM: Flight fares to Hyderabad, New Delhi and some other destinations from Visakhapatnam have more than doubled in the past five days. The trend will continue for the next couple of days as demand for tickets on these routes is skyrocketing. The Coromandel train accident at Balasore last week pushed the prices up as a…
NEW DELHI: Dismissing the opposition charges about the railways cutting spending on rail safety, the national transporter on Monday said it had spent more than Rs 1 lakh crore on safety measures between 2017-2018 and 2021-22. It cited records to show a steady growth in expenditure on track renewal.Officials also said they would soon reply…
NEW DELHI: As the CBI on Monday started its probe into the Balasore train accident, top railway officials once again stressed that the crash took place because of “deliberate interference” with the electronic interlocking system. Late in the evening, a CBI team reached the crash site to begin the investigation which, among other things, is…
LUCKNOW: Following the tragic train accident at Bahanaga Bazar railway station in Balasore district of Odisha, claiming around 290 lives, the railway board on Monday instructed all 19 zones of Indian Railways to kick start safety drives immediately, emphasing on “super check” of signalling systems. The zones have to record all deficiencies and irregularities during…
NEW DELHI/BHUBANESWAR: In an unusual move, the Centre on Sunday announced a CBI probe into the rail accident in Odisha as the railways’ preliminary investigation singled out “interference” with the ‘electronic interlocking system’ and ‘points’, which ensure safe movement of trains, as the “root cause” of the crash. The railway ministry ruled out any fault…
Train Accident:- Hospitals near the rail accident site in Odisha’s Balasore district overflowed with injured passengers overnight, forcing makeshift arrangements even as doctors and other staff worked non-stop. Wailing in pain, many lay in hospital corridors with plasters around their limbs in Balasore, Soro, Gopalpur, Bhadrak and other places as beds ran out. Also See:…
BAHANAGA: A notebook with drawings in red, blue, green and violet on the left pages and handwritten poems of love on the right stood out among the tattered remains of personal belongings strewn on the tracks at Bahanaga, the site of Friday’s tragic three-train pile-up.Also See: Odisha Train Accident Live“Olpo olpo megh theke bristi shristi…
Odisha Train Accident Live Fate appears to have conspired in Friday’s disaster involving two passenger trains travelling in the opposite direction and a freight carrier in a loop line. Also See: Odisha Train Accident Live A little after 6. 50pm on Friday, Shalimar-Chennai Coromandel Express should have passed the stationary goods train in the loop…