Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Wednesday urged job aspirants not to destroy public property and assured them that their grievances would be resolved as candidates went on a rampage over alleged irregularities in a recruitment exam by the public transporter. Earlier in the day, the ministry suspended the Non-Technical Popular Categories (RRB NTPC) and the […]
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Railway suspends NTPC, Level 1 exams after protests by aspirants
Railways has decided to suspend its Non Technical Popular Categories (NTPC) and Level 1 tests after violent protests by job aspirants over the selection process of its recruitment exams, a spokesperson for the national transporter said on Wednesday. It has also formed a high level committee to examine the grievances of those who have passed […]
Kerala: Troll army attacks Malayalam poet who queried K-Rail
A Malayalam poet has been subjected to a vicious cyber attack over his poem that gave a literary voice to widespread public concern about the Left government’s pet project of a semi-high-speed rail link connecting the two ends of Kerala. Popular poet-lyricist Rafeeq Ahamed had recently written the poem — Hey K — about the […]
Toy train service resumes
The toy train service of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (DHR) between New Jalpaiguri (NJP) and Darjeeling that had been suspended for three months following a landslide between Tindharia and Mahanadi, resumed on Friday. “A landslide, following incessant rain across the hills, had damaged a stretch of NH55 near Tindharia and we had to stop the […]
Days after mishap, track restored, train movement resumes
Railway traffic was restored on Saturday evening on the track on which a Guwahati-bound express train had derailed on Thursday. Nine passengers were killed and over 30 injured when the 15633 Bikaner-Guwahati Express had jumped the tracks at Domohoni in the Maynaguri block of Jalpaiguri district. Trains had started moving through the second track, which […]
Trains diverted through Dooars
The derailment of the Bikaner-Guwahati Express along the principal track that connects three districts of north Bengal and the entire Northeast with the rest of the country disrupted train movement in the region since Thursday evening. As restoration works are in progress on the accident site, a number of local trains have been cancelled. The […]
Railway minister hints at loco fault for train mishap
Railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Friday hinted at the possibility of a mechanical error in the locomotive as the reason for the derailment of the 15633 Bikaner-Guwahati Express. Vaishnaw, who visited the accident site at Domohoni in the Maynaguri block of Jalpaiguri district on Friday morning with senior railway officials, said: “I have inspected the […]
Rajdhani Express hits cement pillar, no injuries
The Mumbai-Delhi Rajdhani Express train hit a cement pillar, which some miscreants had allegedly placed on the railway track near Valsad in south Gujarat, although no passenger was injured, police officials said on Saturday. The police suspect that the incident, which took place around 7.10 pm on Friday, was an attempt to derail the Delhi-bound […]
Fifty per cent cap on passenger count slams Covid brakes on Metro Railway tokens
Metro Railway tokens will be suspended from Monday to enforce the 50 per cent cap on passenger count imposed by the state government, the carrier said. “Metro Railway is going to temporarily suspend issuance of tokens from Monday till further notice in order to operate with 50 per cent capacity as per usual operational time,” […]
Howrah-Jagdalpur Samaleshwari Express to resume services from January 3, 2022
The South Eastern Railway ( SER ) has decided to restore the operation of Howrah-Jagdalpur Samaleshwari Express (18005/18006 ) via Sambalpur from January 3, 2022. The above mentioned train will be departing from Howrah every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday at 10.20 pm to reach Jagdalpur at 10.05 pm, the following day. In the opposite […]
Two rail workers buried alive in Darjeeling
Two workers engaged in the construction of the Sevoke-Rangpo railway project died in a slide at Kalikhola, some 30km from Siliguri, under Kurseong subdivision of Darjeeling district on Sunday night. The duo got buried under debris. This year, this is the third such incident when workers associated with this ambitious railway project on difficult terrain […]
Locomotive sale finger at railway engineer in Bihar
A railway engineer in Bihar allegedly sold two-metre gauge locomotives after forging documents and is now on the run to evade arrest. Railway officials said they were not engines, but parts of it, including the bogies in which the engines are fitted. The steam locomotives, manufactured in the 1950s, were lying unattended near Purnea Court […]