Senior Section Engineer (Signal) Arun Kumar Mahanta, Section Engineer Mohammed Amir Khan and Technician Pappu Kumar, who have been placed under suspension by the Railways, were produced before the CBI Special Court on Friday...
Ashwini Vaishnaw said Wednesday that the CBI's preliminary investigation into the triple train accident in Balasore that killed 292 people should be completed before people find out the cause.
The passenger was identified as Sahil Mansur (32) of Roshanpur in Bhagalpur district of Bihar. He was undergoing treatment at the ICU of trauma care, hospital sources said, adding that the patient was also suffering from a...
The contents of the report could not be immediately ascertained. Senior Railway Board officials refused to comment on the report's findings.
Paltu Naskar was undergoing treatment at the central ICU of SCB Medical College and Hospital and breathed his last during the day, he said.
Two hundred and eighty-nine people were killed when the Coromandel Express crashed into a stationary goods train, derailing most of its coaches at 7 pm on June 2. A few coaches of Coromandel toppled over the last few coaches...
The Odisha train disaster may soon become an event of the past, but the lives of the families of the victims and those involved in rescue and relief operations are changed forever
Odisha energy minister PK Deb, who was also present on the occasion on Monday, prayed for the speedy recovery of the injured.
Outlook accesses the joint inspection report that was filed on the ground by the police team that arrived first at the accident site.
Inspired by the story: A Timeless Video Loop Of Disaster published in Outlook by Chinki Sinha, the poem is an obituary in memory of the Balasore train...
Were the railway systems in place and working? Or was there any meddling at the signalling and interlocking points?
Human interest stories seem to have the potential to help readers not only remember the incident for longer but give them the optimism and hope that they lack...
The Balasore train accident is a grim reminder of shattered hopes and separated families. But what has made it worse is the politicisation of a catastrophe
Photographs captured at the site of the recent train accident in Odisha’s Balasore district tell multiple tales of tragedy. A trigger warning.
A temple was touted as a mosque; a process of ‘othering’ began soon after; and, sabotage permeated the media, WhatsApp and everything else. But for now, we...
'Bhalobeshei toke chai sarakhhon, achis tui moner sathe'...(With love, I need you at all times, you are there in my mind at all time) A fragment of a poem in...
Affected policyholders can seek assistance and guidance from dedicated support channels set up by the insurance companies for a smooth claim process.
Nearly a week, after the country witnessed its worst train accident in a decade, over 80 bodies, remain to be identified, as anger and exhaustion fill the...
A senior railway engineer has hit a dissenting note against the inspection report that blamed signal failure for Odisha train tragedy.
The Coromandel Express, which was travelling at full speed, crashed into a stationary goods train derailing most of its coaches. A few coaches then toppled...
An FIR registered at the Government Railway Police station at Balasore indicated that live overhead wires which snapped when the accident occurred, entangled...
The three trains involved in the major accident which claimed 278 lives and injured 1200, were the Howrah-Chennai Coromandel Express, Bengaluru-Howrah Express...
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has started an inquiry into the train tragedy at Odisha's Balasore that killed 278 people and injured over 1,100.
India was struck by one of its worst train accidents when a triple train collision claimed the lives of at least 288 people and left over 1,100 injured last...
Day in and day out, rescue workers have been scrambling to find a pulse among the many limbs and bodies scattered on the railway tracks near the Bahanaga Bazar...
