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Friday, August 15, 2025
TopicRailway accident

Topic: Railway accident

Indian political parties’ focus on women, cows & freebies, and Mukesh Ambani’s data centre ambitions

Global media also took note of the railway accident in Maharashtra, writing about safety of train travel in India, as well as the reality of the economic downturn in the country.

Bengal yet to get ‘Kavach’, says Railway Board after Kanchenjunga Express collision claims 8 lives

Railway Board chief says ‘prima facie human error seems likely cause’ of accident. Ruling TMC questions slow rollout of 'Kavach' system.

26 workers killed after under-construction railway bridge collapses in Mizoram

The Northeast Frontier Railway said in a statement on the messaging platform X that the mishap occurred during work on the Bhairbi-Sairang New Line Railway Project.

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.

2.6 lakh people died in rail accidents in India in past 10 yrs. Most weren’t killed in collisions

New Delhi: A collision involving three trains in Odisha’s Balasore Friday claimed 288 lives and left over 900 people wounded in what’s being considered...

Death toll in triple train collision updated to 275, says Odisha chief secretary

Around 7pm Friday, bogies of Coromandel Express derailed in Bahanaga and were then hit by Sir M. Visvesvaraya-Howrah Superfast Express & a freight train.

233 killed, around 900 injured in Odisha triple train crash

The train crash, one of the deadliest in India in the recent times, happened near the Bahanaga Baazar station in Balasore district around 7 pm on Friday.

Solid iron reduced to mangled heaps of metal: Seemanchal Express survivors recount horror

The Railways have clarified that only six people, including three women, have died in the train accident in Bihar's Vaishali district.

50 killed in Amritsar as train ploughs through crowd watching Ravan effigy burning

As the Ravan effigy was lit, a section of the crowd started retreating towards the tracks and were run over by the train.

On Camera

Nobel committee, note how Trump allowed Munir to make nuclear threat against India from US soil

So far, India has responded to his threats with a measured, diplomatic, strategic, and multi-dimensional approach. Now, it needs to react firmly.

Modi’s ‘Diwali bonanza’ for the common man—next-gen GST reforms, lower tax on daily-use items soon

Finance ministry says the proposed revamp will focus on structural reforms, rate rationalisation & ease of living, & will be deliberated upon in the coming weeks.

What is Project Sudarshan Chakra, announced by Modi from ramparts of Red Fort

The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.