I won't call it Maha Kumbh, it is 'mrityu kumbh': Mamata

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday asserted that the Maha Kumbh has turned into a "Mrityu Kumbh" due to incidents of stampede, claiming that the actual toll at the mega religious......

Train crushes woman loco pilot returning after 'washroom break'

A woman loco pilot was mowed down by a speeding train in West Bengal's Malda division when she was crossing the track to return to the engine after a 'washroom break'. IMAGE: Kindly note that this......

Odisha forms panel to probe death of Nepali student at KIIT

The Odisha government on Tuesday constituted a fact-finding committee to determine the circumstances that led to the 20-year-old Nepali girl's unnatural death in KIIT hostel and what prompted the......

Railways To Revamp Signal Failure Protocols

The government will look to standardise rules around operations protocol during failure of automatic signalling. IMAGE: A goods train rammed into the Kanchenjunga Express in Darjeeling, June 17,......

Rail Budget: A huge emphasis on safety

The Ministry of Railways proposes to set up an independent Railway Safety Authority as a statutory regulatory body as recommended by Kakodkar Committee. This was announced by the Minister of......

Railways need Rs 1 lakh crore to fund safety upgrade

The committee, headed by Anil Kakodkar, former chairman, Atomic Energy Commission and Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy, in its report said Rs 100,000 crore (Rs 1,000 billion) would be......

Mobile train communication soon

Indian Railways plan to introduce mobile train communication on its A, B and C routes, Rajya Sabha was informed on Friday.Of this, work on 3,200 route kilometre on Northern, North-Central,......

Should the Railways take a leaf out of Lalu's book?

Report on the Railway Budget shines as well as falters. The Parliamentary standing committee for the railways has, in its latest report on the demand for grants (2015-16), worked to identify why......