Come July, extra platform to ease Parel commuter rushFrom July onwards, slow trains headed in the northern direction (towards Dadar and beyond) will get a new platform to halt at. The move is ...
12 Jun, 2018, 07.41 PM IST
Railway Minister hospitalised in Mumbai; stableBefore hospitalisation, Goyal visited suburban Elphinstone Road and Currey Road stations to take stock of ongoing construction of the Foot ...
27 Nov, 2017, 09.52 PM IST
Amid opposition fire, Railways says army given bridge work to avoid lengthy processRailway officials said the reason they sought army’s help was because they can start work immediately and finish the projects within the ne...
31 Oct, 2017, 11.54 PM IST
Army to help build foot overbridge at Elphinstone stationFadnavis, who accompanied Defence minister Sitharaman and Railway Minister Goyal, said the Army will also help in building foot overbridges...
31 Oct, 2017, 12.24 PM IST
Enhancing speed, scale and safety in rail operations: Piyush GoyalThe minister said that the rail board is setting up a mechanism to clear all pending mechanism. "Rail board is now meeting once a week to c...
12 Oct, 2017, 12.42 AM IST
High level panel to probe delay in tendering process of Elphinstone rail foot overbridgeFormer Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu had approved the proposal for a new bridge in April 2015. However, tender is yet to be awarded.
11 Oct, 2017, 08.02 PM IST
Western Railway probe blames heavy rain for Mumbai stampedeAccording to the report, the stampede was caused by heavy rains which forced people outside at the ticket counters to rush to the already j...
11 Oct, 2017, 03.24 PM IST
Elphinstone Stampede: High Court pulls up activists for closing eyes to problemOn September 29, a stampede on the stairwell of a narrow foot over bridge (FOB) at the station left 23 dead and over 30 injured.
06 Oct, 2017, 01.21 PM IST
Confusion between 'phool' and 'pul' could have triggered Elphinstone stampedeTragedy may have been triggered by panic that set in after some commuters mistook the word “phool” (flower in both Hindi and Marathi) for “...
04 Oct, 2017, 11.27 AM IST
Mumbai's Elphinstone bridge widening didn’t need any clearanceAfter the accident, Prabhu issued a statement claiming that he during his tenure had sanctioned a wider foot-overbridge (FOB) at Elphinston...
01 Oct, 2017, 08.27 AM IST
Death toll in Elphinstone stampede in Mumbai rises to 23The dean of the hospital, Avinash Supe, said the deceased was identified as Satyendrakumar Kanojia who was in his late forties.
30 Sep, 2017, 04.07 PM IST
Mumbai netizens question bullet train, slam station renaming spreeInflamed hashtags such as #priorities and #22slainbystate lampooned the state for renaming Elphinstone station as 'Prabhadevi' and going fo...
30 Sep, 2017, 11.32 AM IST
3000 people lose lives on Mumbai tracks every yearPassengers have long been petitioning then railway minister Suresh Prabhu and his predecessors for funds to develop the ageing infrastructu...
30 Sep, 2017, 12.44 AM IST
22 crushed to death in Mumbai station stampede; Rail minister orders probeA desperate attempt to avoid a sudden burst of heavy rains forced people to crowd together in a narrow, decades-old bridge leading to the d...
30 Sep, 2017, 12.34 AM IST
Government priorities skewed, say ally & Opposition after Mumbai stampedeHundreds of Shiv Sena activists shouted slogans against Goyal and Maharashtra Education Minister Vinod Tawde near the KEM Hospital when the...
30 Sep, 2017, 12.05 AM IST
Papa you go ahead, I will come: last words of one stampede victimSuddenly it started raining, and the crowd on the bridge swelled. Father was propelled forward by pressing bodies, while his daughter was s...
29 Sep, 2017, 10.03 PM IST
Anguished by the loss of lives in Mumbai stampede: President Ram Nath KovindAt least 22 people were killed and several injured in a rush hour stampede on a foot over-bridge linking Elphinstone Road and Parel suburba...
29 Sep, 2017, 02.34 PM IST