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Gonda accident: Joint probe blames improper fastening of track; Railways calls it prematureA five-member team of senior railway officials investigating the Chandigarh-Dibrugarh Express derailment blamed improper rail track fasteni...
Congress accuses govt of 'destroying' railways, demands Ashwini Vaishnaw's resignationCongress president Mallikarjun Kharge said whenever there is a train accident, Modi government's railway minister reaches the spot under th...
Kavach: Did the lack of an armour kill hundreds in modern India that is spending record money for railways?A three-way train collision in India has claimed hundreds of lives, leading to questions about rail safety, particularly after it was found...
Odisha rail tragedy: Kharge slams PM, says accountability needs to be fixed from top to bottomIn the wake of the Odisha rail tragedy, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was busy ...
1981 Bihar to 2023 Balasore train accident in Odisha, here are India's deadliest rail accidentsIndia has witnessed several tragic train accidents throughout the years, including the country's deadliest in 1981, which killed at least 8...
Odisha Train Accident: Check out helpline numbers for assistance and supportIn a tragic incident in Odisha's Balasore, three trains collided, resulting in one of the deadliest train accidents in India. Approximately...
On track: Railways' safety record in 2017-2018 best in 57 years, shows official dataAs of March 30, as many as 73 accidents were reported across the railway network, compared to 104 in the previous fiscal, the lowest in 57 ...
Government announces Rajiv Bansal as new Air India CMDThe vacancy was created after current CMD Ashwani Lohani has been made the chairman of Railway board after the current chairman A K Mittal ...
Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu offers to resign; PM asks him to waitIn a series of tweets, Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu has said that he takes full responsibility for the recent train derailments in Khatau...
120 dead, 200 injured in Patna-Indore express mishap near KanpurAs many as 14 coaches of the train with close to 600 passengers rolled off track close to Pukhraya near Kanpur in what railway officials sa...
Make train journeys safe: PM Narendra Modi to railway officials after derailmentThe derailment of the Indore-Patna Express at Kanpur dehat will be probed, said the Prime Minister at the Rail Vikas Shivir (rail developme...
French firm Thales to provide latest safety technology to Indian RailwaysIndian Railways intends to implement Train Protection Warning System (TPWS) on a total of approximately 7,900 km of main lines across the c...
Mission 'zero accident' to prevent train mishapsAn action plan was announced which included elimination of unmanned level crossings and installation of Train Collision Avoidance System in...
Trespassing on rail tracks claims 39 lives every dayThirty-nine people are killed everyday on rail tracks while trespassing and the casualty in in such accidents between 2009-2012 was over 50...
- Our system should be above politics: Dinesh Trivedi
Dinesh Trivedi today rued that there is too much of politics in the country and that the system should be above it.
- Railways minister Dinesh Trivedi faces flak in both Houses for apparent lack of effort to address safety issues
Concerns about inadequate attention to rail safety put the newly appointed Railways Minister Dinesh Trivedi in a tight spot in Parliament o...
Railway Budget 2011: Mamata Banerjee blames 'rail roko' for slow growthDue to 'rail roko', we have lost a lot of working days and around Rs 1,500 crore on account of this, says Railway Minister, Mamata Banerjee.