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
Criteria for redeveloping railway stations redrawnRailway minister Piyush Goyal said that 23 stations were being redeveloped in the first stage of the station redevelopment program by zonal...
05 Jan, 2018, 05.53 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
Railways to grade stations for faster infrastructure revampAfter the Elphinstone tragedy, railways started re-categorisation process of stations by including two new yardsticks---number of footfalls...
02 Nov, 2017, 01.50 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
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
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
The daily struggle that is Mumbai Railways: The tale of a commuterThe suburban railway system carries around 7.5 million commuters daily and stations such as Parel are one of its busiest, ranked after CST ...
30 Sep, 2017, 08.23 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
Rain fury: Dr Deepak Amrapurkar doctor of Bombay Hospital goes missing"According to some eye-witnesses Amrapurkar fell in a manhole and police recovered his umbrella from near it," said Sunil Deshmukh.
30 Aug, 2017, 03.23 PM IST
Now, Mumbai's Elphinstone Road station renamed as PrabhadeviThe station, which was named after Lord Elphinstone, the Governor of Bombay Presidency from 1853 to 1860, has now been renamed in honour of...
05 Jul, 2017, 01.52 AM IST