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Railway Board orders 15-day fire safety drive in pantry cars after recent train incidents
June 04, 2026 5:31 pm
The Railways said the exercise is aimed at strengthening safety compliance in pantry cars, which use electrical equipment and cooking arrangements during train operations.
Day after, kin of Railway staffers struggle to come to terms with loss
June 19, 2024 7:40 am
Those in the neighbourhood said they came to know of the accident from the sound of ambulance and police sirens.
Odisha train crash: Love poems found scattered on tracks Kolkata
June 05, 2023 10:23 am
Till now no one has come forward to claim the poems or relationship with the poet, whose fate too is unknown, local police officers said
‘Coromandel entered loop line after green signal’: Railway Board explains sequence of events leading to Odisha train tragedy
June 05, 2023 8:56 am
Two key officials of the Railway Board — Principal Executive Director of Signalling Sandeep Mathur and Member of Operation and Business Development Jaya Varma Sinha — explained how the accident might have occurred while addressing the media on Sunday.
Alertness necessary for public events near rail tracks: Nitish Kumar
October 20, 2018 5:56 pm
More than 58 people were mowed down by a train on rail tracks Friday evening at Joda Phatak area near Amritsar during Dusshera celebrations.
Amritsar train tragedy: At civil hospital, parents wait for autopsies of their children who left homes to 'celebrate'
December 20, 2018 11:21 pm
Only 24 (including adults) were identified by Saturday morning as the rest were dismembered beyond recognition. The hospital also received partial remains found scattered on the tracks after a speeding train mowed over dozens of people in the city.
Over 300 accidents in 4 years, in 7 cases out of 10, Railway staff were to blame
August 07, 2015 7:20 am
The government defines “consequential accidents” as those with “serious repercussions in terms of loss of human life, human injury, loss to railway property or interruption to rail traffic”.
Cronology of major train accidents in recent years
August 05, 2015 3:11 am
Here is a timeline of major train accidents in India in recent years.
Timeline of major train accidents in recent years
June 25, 2014 8:44 am
Sunday's train accident is the latest in a line of tragedies to have hit the Indian railways.
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