Tuesday, Jun 06, 2023
Apr 02, 2021 Associated Press (AP) Reports said a truck fell from a cliff above and landed on the tracks, where a train emerging from a tunnel smashed into it.
Mar 26, 2021 Associated Press (AP) Local media displayed videos from the scene showing flipped wagons with passengers trapped inside and surrounded by rubble.
Purnagiri Janshatabdi Express going from Delhi to Uttarakhand's Tanakpur rolled back for 35 kilometres and finally stopped at Khatima.
Jan 18, 2021 Outlook Web Bureau The accident occurred on Monday
Thirteen wagons of one of the trains and an engine jumped off the tracks following the collision.
Nine people died on the spot, while six others died in different hospitals.
In an attempt to board a running train, an elderly woman slips and comes under it.
The Quetta bound Akbar Express collided with a stationary freight train at the Walhar Railway Station in Sadiqabad Tehsil of the Punjab province.
Four out of the 12 derailed Linke Hofmann Busch (LHB) coaches had overturned.
All passengers trains on this route have been cancelled.
The Great Belt bridge in Denmark linking the islands of Zealand and Funen was shut after the incident and people were reportedly being evacuated.
Disaster management personnel along with those of the fire and emergency services department rescued the passengers, the officials said.
Navjot Kaur Sidhu was the chief guest at the Ravana effigy burning event where the incident took place and had said earlier that she came to know about the accident as soon as she left the site.
The probe report found that the spot of the accident was not visible till the train was within 250 meters of the crowd of revellers due to a S-curve on the route.
Demanding an enhanced compensation of Rs 1 crore and a government job to each victim family, Valtoha said the Congress government should not discriminate against the victims only because they were poor.
The probe will begin November 4, according to a notification issued by the Northern Railway.
The incident happened around 7.15 a.m., when they were trying to cross the railway track near Nangloi and were run over by the Bikaner-Delhi Express, railway official said.
Punjab Congress chief Sunil Jakhar questioned how a "clean chit" was given to the loco-pilot of the train, which ran over nearly 60 people watching a Dussehra event in Amritsar
A farmer sits near his red chillies at a deserted APMC market, during the weekend curfew imposed by the Karnataka government to curb the spread of COVID-19, in Hubballi.
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Delhi Chief Minister & AAP National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal being welcomed by women supporters during his door-to-door campaign ahead of the Goa Assembly elections, in Goa.
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A health worker collects swab sample of a woman for COVID-19 test, amid concerns over rising Omicron cases, in Gurugram.
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Traffic jam on a road at Shalimar Bagh during the weekend curfew imposed by the Delhi government to curb the spread of Covid-19, in New Delhi.
PTI Photo/ Shahbaz Khan
The Lajpat Nagar market wears a deserted look during the weekend curfew imposed by the Delhi government to curb the spread of Covid-19, in New Delhi.
PTI Photo/ Shahbaz Khan
He would take his colour, brushes and canvas outside to paint and talk with his love. He would stand close to the window and paint, keeping an eye on his muse.
They say the violin mimics the human sound. In his case, it was that of love, of longing. He didn’t know any other way of loving.
Younger people do not have much progressive beliefs; a 2017 survey found that one-third of young people opposed inter-caste marriage.
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