Navi Mumbai: A 50-year-old man appearing 'disoriented' boarded the ladies' coach of a Panvel-CSMT train and pushed an 18-year-old college girl from the moving train after the women commuters told him to get down. He was arrested by the Panvel govt railway police (GRP) for attempted murder.Vijay Tayade, senior inspector, Panvel GRP, said that the arrested accused has been identified as Shaikh Akhtar...
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Mumbai: Upholding compensation granted by a railway claims tribunal to the family of a man who died due due to falling from a Mumbai suburban train two decades ago, Bombay high court said there was no negligence on his part."If a person has to travel for his work and it is very difficult to enter inside the compartment, the passenger has no choice, but to risk his life by standing near the door. This...
NEW DELHI: What if you could travel from Mumbai to Ahmedabad in less time than it takes to watch a film? What if India’s busiest business corridor suddenly shrank from eight hours to just two? And what if 2025 turns out to be the year that finally pushed India into the global high-speed rail league?As India’s first bullet train inches closer to reality, multiple mega-milestones across Maharashtra...
MUMBAI: The chargesheet filed by the Government Railway Police against the dismissed RPF constable, Chetan Singh, for gunning down four people in a longdistance train in July dwells considerably on a communal speech that he had made aboard the train. Police have produced a list of passengers with their names and addresses who had filmed the speech. The chargesheet even mentions the kind of mobile device...
Oct 19, 2023, 12:44PM ISTSource: TOI.in Vande Bharat sleeper coach train update: Indian Railways’ first Vande Bharat sleeper train is all set to roll out in the first half of 2024. The first Vande Bharat sleeper train is being manufactured by BEML in collaboration with ICF. In this exclusive interview with Times of India Online’s Smriti Jain, BEML’s Chairman & Managing Director Shantanu Roy...
MUMBAI: A video of rats eating into the food items stored in the pantry of LTT-Madgaon train has gone viral, thus raising question mark about the safety of the passengers who rely on on-board train catering services items during the journey.The video was shot by a passenger at LTT on October 15. IRCTC has blamed CR for the issue as it claims that the yard in LTT ,where this rake is parked, is infested...
LONDON: A 39-year-old Indian-origin man has been jailed for 16 weeks and placed on the sexual offenders register for seven years after he pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a woman while travelling on a train from Birmingham to London. Mukhan Singh, from the Sandwell area of the West Midlands region of England, was arrested for the crime en route at Leamington station back in 2021. He entered his...
BAREILLY: A 17-year-old girl lost both her legs and left arm after her stalker, 19, allegedly pushed her in front of a moving train in Bareilly while she was returning from NEET coaching on Tuesday. She is currently undergoing treatment in a private hospital here and her condition is critical, said police. Dr OP Bhaskar, who had initially treated the girl, said, "She was brought to hospital with both...
Indian Railways is looking to roll out a new train for the common man - and one that will run on the push-pull locomotive system. Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw today took to his Whatsapp channel to share an image preview of the push-pull locomotives that are being made for the new train by Chittaranjan Locomotive Works (CLW).The Integral Coach Factory (ICF) in Chennai is manufacturing a new upgraded...
BHUBANESWAR: The 28 unclaimed bodies of June 2 Bahanaga train tragedy will be cremated in Odisha's capital with Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) readying a crematorium for mass cremation.The civic authorities will take a call on Monday morning as to whether to start the cremation from Monday or Tuesday. It will depend on when the team of CBI officersis constituted to be present during the...