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Wednesday, November 12, 2025
TopicOdisha train accident

Topic: odisha train accident

Train services resume on Odisha’s Cuttack-Nergundi rail section a day after Kamakhya Exp. derailment

Due to the derailment, ECoR diverted 38 down-line trains and 17 up-line trains to alternative routes, ensuring minimal disruption to passengers.

Jaya Verma Sinha becomes first woman to head Railway Board, will take charge from 1 September

Sinha was also the first woman principal chief operations manager of South Eastern Railways. She has also served as principal chief commercial manager of Northern Railways.

‘Their actions led to accident’: CBI arrests 3 Railways staff for Balasore train crash

Two engineers and a technician have been booked for culpable homicide and destruction of evidence among other charges.

Faulty signal connection made during repair work resulted in Odisha rail tragedy, says probe

In report, Commission of Railway Safety investigators said first collision occurred due to modifications done to signalling circuit to fix frequent issues at nearby rail-road barrier.

‘Wrong signalling, lapses at multiple levels’: Odisha train accident inquiry report reveals

The independent inquiry report, submitted by the Commission of Railway Safety (CRS), said that a team of field supervisors modified the wiring diagram and failed to replicate it.

Odisha train accident: Railways denies reports of staffer missing amid CBI inquiry

CPRO of South Eastern Railway clarifies that all staffers under scrutiny in connection with the Odisha triple train accident go when they are summoned either by CBI or CRS.

Months before Odisha tragedy, Railway Board raised concerns over signalling staff’s ‘shortcut methods’

In his 3 April letter to zonal railways, Railway Board member R.N. Sunkar had cited 5 incidents of unsafe rides this year when staff adopted shortcut methods for clearing signals.

Safety in focus but what’s Railways spending money on? More on new projects, less on upkeep

Analysis of official documents also shows that percentage of money Railways spent on signalling and communications hasn't changed in past 6 years.

Duty calls, say nervous labourers on board as Coromandel Express chugs along route of deadly tragedy

Many have travelled this route countless times before. The train is fully booked until at least 28 July. Meanwhile, survivors of 2 June accident stare at uncertain future.

Bahanaga school, which turned a mortuary for Coromandel victims, razed to ‘erase memories’

Students and guardians said the classrooms reminded them of the heaps of corpses from the deadly train accident that claimed 288 lives.

On Camera

Air purifiers are the new water filters. Delhi has quietly accepted a crisis

The affluent in Delhi, armed with airtight windows, multiple purifiers, and humidifiers, have normalised a way of life that once seemed dystopian.

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.