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Altogether 260 people, who were injured in the triple train accident in Balasore, are currently undergoing treatment in various hospitals across Odisha, while around 900 have been discharged so far, health department officials said on Sunday.Three Union ministers -- Ashwini Vaishnaw, Mansukh...
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The railways on Sunday said that even ticketless travellers on board the passenger trains involved in the Odisha accident will receive compensation. This is in line with a Supreme Court order, officials said.'Irrespective of the passengers being ticketless (or not), they will receive...
19:47
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday questioned the death figures given by the Ministry of Railways in the triple train crash in Odisha's Balasore, stating that 61 people from her state were dead and 182 were still missing.Banerjee asked questions on whether Vande Bharat engines...
19:11
The Railway Board has recommended a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the Balasore train accident that has so far claimed 275 lives.We have recommended a CBI probe into the triple train accident that claimed 275 lives and left over 1,000 injured, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw told...
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The Delhi high court will on Monday pronounce its order on Aam Aadmi Party leader Manish Sisodia's plea seeking interim bail for six weeks in a money laundering case arising from the alleged excise policy scam.The former Delhi deputy chief minister has sought release on a temporary basis on the...
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A five-member team, including a doctor, reached Odisha's Balasore on Sunday to assist those from Jharkhand, who were injured in the triple train accident there, for their treatment.The team has so far found around 50 people from Jharkhand were injured and two killed in the train crash, an...
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More than 1,500 passengers including a large number of labourers are stranded at the Byappanahalli Railway Station in Bengaluru due to the cancelled trains as a fallout of the train derailment in Odisha.With a big crisis unfolding at the Byappanahalli, the labour department and the Bengaluru...
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Odisha Police Sunday appealed to all sections to desist from circulating rumours giving a communal colour to Balasore's triple train accident where at least 275 people have died and over 1,100 injured.The Odisha police also warned that severe legal action will be initiated against those found...
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A senior Bangladeshi diplomat, Sheikh Marefat Ali Islam, on Sunday visited Soro Hospital in Odisha's Balasore district to provide consular assistance to Bangladeshi passengers injured in the triple train crash.Islam told PTI that few Bangladeshi passengers were recuperating in different hospitals...
15:57
A public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking a direction to the Centre for setting up an inquiry commission headed by a retired apex court judge to probe the cause of the train accident in Odisha's Balasore district that has left 275 people dead.The plea filed by...
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Days after the tragic train accident in Balasore, Odisha Chief Secretary Pradeep Jena on Sunday said that the number of deaths in the incident has been revised to 275 after factoring out some 'double countings'.The chief secretary also said that out of the 275, 88 bodies have been...
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The Congress on Sunday demanded the resignation of Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw over the Odisha rail tragedy, alleging that his 'PR gimmicks' overshadowed the 'serious deficiencies, criminal negligence and complete disregard for safety and security' of Indian Railways.The Opposition party...
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Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Sunday spoke to Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the phone and briefed him about the latest train accident situation, particularly the treatment of injured passengers.Noting that doctors, medical students and other health care service providers are doing...
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Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on Sunday attacked the government over the railway tragedy in Odisha, and said one minister cannot deal with large ministries such as Railways as well as Communications, Electronics and Information Technology, as was being done by Ashwini Vaishnaw.The accident involving...
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The root cause of the three-train crash in Odisha's Balasore district has been identified and the affected tracks will be restored for normal services by Wednesday, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Sunday.He said the issue is of point machine and electronic interlocking.The change that...
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As many as 137 survivors of the train accident in Odisha arrived in Chennai on Sunday by a special train from Bhadrak, authorities said.Following screening procedure, medical examination was conducted for 36 passengers and three of them were admitted as in-patients at the Rajiv Gandhi...
11:40
India's import of cheap Russian oil scaled another record in May and is now more than the combined oil bought from Saudi Arabia, Iraq, UAE and the US, industry data showed.  India took 1.96 million barrels a day from Russia in May, 15 per cent more than the previous high in April, according to...
11:09
Visiting Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has a deep and humane understanding of technology and connects it directly with the impact it would have on common man and jobs, said the young Indian-American who hosted him for a meeting with Silicon Valley startup entrepreneurs working in the field of...
10:57
Two days after one of India's worst train accidents at Bahanga Bazar in Odisha's Balasore district, most railway tracks have been cleared of wrecked railway coaches overnight by a team of bulldozers and cranes so that railway services on the main trunk line connecting eastern and southern India...
10:17
An on leave National Disaster Response Force jawan travelling on the Coromandel Express was perhaps the first person to alert emergency services about the train's accident in Odisha's Balasore before he joined initial rescue efforts, officials said on Saturday.The Shalimar-Chennai Central...
09:27
A team of doctors and experts from the AIIMS in Delhi and other central hospitals of Delhi have been rushed to Bhubaneswar through a special IAF flight to provide medical assistance to those injured in the deadly Odisha train accident, official sources said on Sunday. The team is carrying...
09:02
Three brothers from West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district, who were travelling to Tamil Nadu in search of work, lost their lives in the train accident in Odisha's Balasore, officials said. Haran Gayen (40), Nishikant Gayen (35) and Dibakar Gayen (32), residents of Charanikhali village in...
08:27
United States President Joe Biden on Saturday said he is heartbroken by the tragic news of a train crash in India that has killed over 280 people. The crash in Odisha's Balasore district involving three trains is one of the worst rail accidents in India in nearly three decades. At least 288...
