Avishek G Dastidar

After hearing the news, trackmen on the section blocked train traffic in the morning, protesting the lack of safety. Railways has decided to install CCTVs in such remote, mid-section level crossings for security.

Indian Railways: Since 2007-08, 1,272 people have died in accidents at unmanned level crossings, the highest being in 2011-12, when 204 were killed.

When complete, this will make Indian Railways one of the largest electrified railway networks in the world — after China, which has 87,000 km electrified — and the only large railway with 100 per cent electrification.

Commercially working narrow-gauge lines are pretty much nonexistent in the world, other than some hill railways in India, and this is an effort by the Railways to save them from extinction.

Of the 28 villages in Palghar taluk, joint measurement survey has been conducted in 11 and is set to be conducted in five others in the next few days

To be opened by the end of 2022, the three-level Vadodara station, which is part of the bullet train corridor, will replace the existing structure and will include a passenger reservation office, a supervisor office, a government railway police facility and other installations.

The NDA government wishes to run the first bullet train by August 15, 2022 to coincide the occasion with 75 years of Independence.

There are around 2,500 trees on the campus and NHSRCL is trying to relocate all of them, some along the boundary of the site. Between uprooting and replanting comes a process to apply anti-fungal chemicals to the roots.

To be built at a cost of Rs 40 crore from the NHSRCL budget, the station will consist of three floors and modern facilities.

There are around 2,500 trees in the decades-old, lush green campus and NHSRCL is trying to relocate all of them, some along the boundary of the site.

How do cows die in India? Strange as it may sound, but it seems more and more are dying after coming under speeding trains across the country.

Talks are on in the ministry to introduce an experimental one-month suspension of flexi-fare system in some trains during the lean season, around September, sources have told The Indian Express.

Trains running with these new couplers are found to have finally eliminated the age-old problem of the jerks and a kind of swaying which passengers of the premium trains have been complaining about for ages.

The Railways has identified a 100-acre plot in Vadodara for the greenfield campus and is in talks with the Gujarat government to acquire it.

Kerala Floods: According to official estimates, there are more than 2.5 million migrant labourers working in Kerala, coming from other states and even Nepal and Bangladesh.

The Golden Quadrilateral or “GQ” was former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s first dream project and is enshrined as the biggest infrastructure intervention in the roadways sector in post-Independent India.

The three-tier third-party audit-cum-survey done by Quality Council of India (QCI), which did last year’s audit as well, at the behest of Railways comprises a detailed evaluation by assesors, direct observation and lastly, feedback from passengers.

As many as 3,59,605 candidates appeared in 160 cities ranging from Srinagar and Samba in Jammu and Kashmir, Port Blair in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, to Neharlagun in Arunachal Pradesh on Day 1.

Around 60,000 vacancies for the posts of Assistant Loco Pilots and Technicians that were notified by the Railway Recruitment Boards will be filled through the exam to be held over 10 days — from August 9 to 31.