{"id":581952,"date":"2023-06-05T09:32:54","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T04:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=581952"},"modified":"2023-06-05T10:22:54","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T04:52:54","slug":"kavach-did-the-lack-of-an-armour-kill-hundreds-in-modern-india-that-is-spending-record-money-for-railways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/kavach-did-the-lack-of-an-armour-kill-hundreds-in-modern-india-that-is-spending-record-money-for-railways\/","title":{"rendered":"Kavach: Did the lack of an armour kill hundreds in modern India that is spending record money for railways?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India is shaken by a three-way train collision that has killed hundreds in what is seen as the worst train disaster in two decades in a country that is busy boasting introduction of modern locomotives, harbours dreams of bullet trains and allocates record money to its railway network.<\/p>\n<p>The horrifying accident involved the Bengaluru-Howrah Superfast Express, the Shalimar-Chennai Central Coromandel Express, and a goods train. Although the exact cause of the crash remains unknown, sources have suggested a potential signaling failure.<\/p>\n<p>Railway officials have launched a comprehensive investigation into the train collision and Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has said the cause of the accident will be unearthed after the probe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India is shaken by a three-way train collision that has killed hundreds in what is seen as the worst train disaster in two decades in a country that is busy boasting introduction of modern locomotives, harbours dreams of bullet trains and allocates record money to its railway network. The horrifying accident involved the Bengaluru-Howrah Superfast Express, the Shalimar-Chennai Central Coromandel Express, and a goods train. Although the exact cause of the crash remains unknown, sources have suggested a potential signaling failure. Railway officials have launched a comprehensive investigation into the train collision and Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has said the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,258,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}