New Delhi: The national capital on Friday recorded a minimum temperature of 7.1 degrees Celsius, a notch below the season average, the weather department said. Dense fog conditions prevailed in parts of the city with the Palam Observatory near the Indira Gandhi International Airport recording a visibility level of 50 metres at 5:30 am. According […]
Category: Railways
Four crushed to death by express train in Jharkhand
Seraikela: Four people were crushed to death by an express train outside Gamariah station in Jharkhand’s Seraikela-Kharswan district on Thursday evening, a police officer said. The victims were all residents of a slum near the place of occurrence, he said. They were all crossing the railway tracks when the Puri-bound Utkal Express ploughed through them […]
Central Railway surpasses scrap sale target of Rs 300 crore
Mumbai: The Mumbai-headquartered Central Railway has achieved the milestone of being the first zonal railway to surpass the Railway Board’s target of sale of scrap for the Financial Year 2023-24, with two-and-a-half-months remaining in the fiscal year. The Central Railway has earned Rs 300.43 crore, surpassing its scrap sale target of Rs 300 crore for […]
Agra division appoints ‘medically unfit’ person as train controller, official seeks transfer
New Delhi: Nearly two months after being appointed as train controller in Agra division, a railway official has urged his seniors to shift him to some other ‘low-stress’ job as he is ‘medically unfit’ to work in the control department. “His application is under consideration,” Agra Railway Division PRO Prashasti Srivastava told PTI. The train […]
CBI arrests railway official from Bihar’s Hazipur in Rs 2-lakh bribery case
New Delhi: The CBI has arrested a Deputy Chief Materials Manager of the railways and two others from Hazipur in Bihar in connection with a Rs 2 lakh bribery case, officials said Thursday. Sunil Kumar Gandhi, a 2012-batch IRSS officer of East Central Railway, Hazipur, peon Raman Chaurasia and a private person, Amod Kumar Rai, […]
Woman jumps on Metro track to pick up phone; train ops hit for 15 mins in Bengaluru
Bengaluru: A woman jumped on the metro railway track at the Indiranagar station to pick up her fallen mobile phone on Monday evening, but escaped unhurt, thanks to the quick reflexes of a co-passenger and the security guard on duty. Train services on the Purple Line were, however, disrupted for 15 minutes, officials said. While […]
CM Reddy urges quick Detailed Project Reports for revised Hyderabad Airport Metro alignment
Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy has instructed the Hyderabad Metro Rail Limited officials to quickly get the traffic studies and detailed project reports done for the revised Airport Metro alignment via the Old City and from LB Nagar here. Reddy, who reviewed Phase-II of Hyderabad Metro Rail proposals, on Tuesday directed that the […]
K-RIDE invites financial bids for 306 coaches; BEML, BHEL, Spanish firm qualify
Bengaluru: Rail Infrastructure Development Company (Karnataka) has invited financial bids to procure 306 air-conditioned, metro-like coaches for the Bengaluru Suburban Railway Project (BSRP). K-RIDE, a joint venture of the state and union governments, is building the 149-km BSRP over four corridors or lines (Sampige, Mallige, Parijata and Kanaka). Of the 306 coaches, 264 will be […]
2 fatally hit by train while bypassing manned crossing in Uttar Pradesh
Mirzapur: Two motorbike-borne persons were mowed down Tuesday by a goods train when they tried to avoid a closed manned crossing through a side space, a police official said. The incident happened at the Gaipura crossing under the Vindhyachal police station area of the district, he said. SHO Dayashankar Ojha said the incident took place […]
PM Modi inaugurates projects worth over Rs 20,000 cr in Tamil Nadu
Tiruchirappalli: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday dedicated to the nation completed projects and laid foundation stone for new ones, totally worth Rs 20,140 crore. In his address, the Prime Minister referred to recent rains, floods in December 2023 in the state and the consequent losses and said he was deeply moved by the condition […]
BMRCL wants to take metro to Bengaluru suburbs
Bengaluru: Namma Metro has proposed a feasibility study to add 129 km to its network under what could be known as Phase 4. The new lines will connect far-flung and suburban areas at a time when many parts of the city’s core lack adequate metro connectivity. This is against the government-approved Comprehensive Mobility Plan (CMP). […]
Not allowed inside train, passengers block rail track in Gurugram
Gurugram: Passengers bound for Khatu Shyam temple in Rajasthan sat on the railway track in Gurugram after they were faced with an overcrowded train and were shut out by the passengers sitting inside, police said here on Monday. Angry passengers caused the train to stop for about 30 minutes and agreed to clear the track […]