- Friday, February 28, 2025
The multi-train accident in Balasore in the eastern Indian state of Odisha , which killed nearly 300 people and injured almost 1,000, has brought the railways' automatic train protection system "Kavach" back into focus. The railways has said that "Kavach" (shield) was not available on the route where the accident…
People came out to express solidarity, not only with words but also action, after a three-train collision killed nearly 300 people and injured several hundreds more in Balasore in the eastern Indian state of Odisha on Friday (2) night. According to reports, people queued up in large numbers at a…
Indian American Ajay Banga on Friday (2) took over as the president of the World Bank, making him the first person of colour to head either of the two global financial institutions, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. On May 3, the executive directors of the World Bank…
As Twitter was abuzz with demands for resignation of India's railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw after a collision between three trains, including two passenger ones, in Balasore in the eastern state of Odisha left several hundreds dead and injured, people recalled two instances in history of independent India when two railway…
Condolences poured in from leaders all over the world after a deadly railway accident in the eastern Indian state of Odisha involving three trains on Friday (2) resulted in deaths of at least 288 people and injury to more than 900. While some of India's top leaders, including prime minister…
The Indian Railways has initiated a high-level probe into the train crash in the eastern state of Odisha, which will be headed by the commissioner of railway safety, South Eastern Circle, officials said on Saturday (3). The commissioner of railway safety works under the ministry of civil aviation and investigates…
At least 280 people were reportedly killed while more than 900 got injured after three trains, including two passenger ones, got involved in a deadly crash near Bahanaga Bazar railway station in Balasore district of the eastern Indian state of Odisha on Friday (2). The incident happened when one of…
Prime minister Narendra Modi will on Saturday (3) visit the site of the train accident in Odisha and also the Cuttack hospital where the injured are being treated. Two hundred and eighty people were reportedly killed while more than 900 injured in the train crash involving the Bengaluru-Howrah Superfast Express,…
The death toll in the horrific railway accident in Balasore district in the eastern Indian state of Odisha rose nearly 300 on Saturday (3), hours after one passenger train rammed into the derailed coaches of another, India Today reported. A goods train was also involved in the pile-up, said Odisha's…
One of the deadliest disasters in the history of century-old Indian Railways took place on Friday (2) when at least 30 people were killed and more than 400 injured when one passenger train rammed into the derailed coaches of another in Balasore district of the eastern state of Odisha. Both…
