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Railways slow on equipping trains with LHB coaches

The Railways are yet to equip all important express and mail trains with modern LHB coaches as a saf...

Stars’ age measured to uncover Milky Way’s history

A new discovery of stars’ age may help understand how our Milky Way galaxy built itself up over bill...

`Gigantic gamma-rays blasted from Milky Way’s core`

New evidence of ghostly gamma-ray beams suggests that the Milky Way’s central black hole was much mo...

Passenger train catches fire, no casualty

Alert passengers pulled the emergency chain and jumped out of the Indore-Ratlam passenger train whic...

Norway mass killer wanted to look like Beckham

Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik is accused of killing 77 people in a bombing and shooti...

Norway killer`s friends viewed him as gay

Friends of self-confessed Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik believed he was a recluse or homosexu...

Chinese Communist party axes ex-minister

Liu Zhijun, a former railway minister, has been expelled from the Communist Party of China due to "s...

Kids` custody row a closed chapter: Norway

Amidst the renewed fight over custody of two children of an Indian NRI couple in Norway, the country...

Fire in Jet Airways plane; passengers safe

About 158 passengers on board Jet Airways Riyadh-Mumbai flight on Monday escaped unhurt after a fire...

Bus mishap in Maharashtra, at least 27 killed

At least 27 people were killed when a stationery private mini-bus was rammed from the rear by a temp...

Railways suspend seven for train tragedy

Railways have suspended 7 officials, including 2 drivers, for the Hubli-Bangalore Hampi Express acci...

20 detonators found on railway track

As many as 20 detonators were on Sunday found on a railway track at Nashkal station in Warangal dist...

‘BJP, RSS leaders involved in grabbing tribal land`

Ajay Singh claimed to have documents showing involvement of certain leaders of BJP and RSS in "grabb...

Norway kids in new family row

Sagarika Chakrabarty has complained to Kulti police station in Burdwan, alleging that her father-in-...

Breivik spared me, then shot me: Witness

Pracon testified that Breivik, a self-styled anti-Muslim crusader, first found him on Utoya island a...

New bus routes and roadways buses in Gurgaon

Haryana Roadways is expanding its city operations in Gurgaon by adding 20 more buses to its city fle...

Universe may be teeming with nomad planets

A recent study proposed that the galaxy is packed with nomad planets adrift in space.

Two National Highways declared in Assam

Union Ministry of Surface Road Transport and Highways has declared two roads of Assam, linking neigh...

Two National Highways declared in Assam

The total length of NH315(A) and NH127(B) are 99 km and 401 km respectively, an official release sai...

Roadmap for preventing rail mishaps: Roy

Railway Minister Mukul Roy on Wednesday asked the Railway Board to prepare a detailed roadmap to pre...

Bill to give more powers to RPF gets Parl nod

A bill to provide more powers to the RPF to check instances of theft in railways and prevent misuse...

`Hampi Exp mishap as driver jumped signal`

Train accident in Anantapur of AP occurred as the Bangalore-bound Hampi Express jumped the signal at...

220 turtles found on Mumbai-bound train

A huge cache of rare turtles stuffed in two bags was discovered by GRP on board the Mumbai-bound Pus...

‘Return of Kashmiri Pandits essential’

Return of Kashmiri Pandits to their homes is essential for peace in Kashmir, Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain...

Railways` anti-collision device not foolproof: CAG

Railways has been unable to develop a robust and reliable anti-collision device to prevent train mis...

Timely detection of explosives prevents disaster

Acting on information given by a passerby, railway police recovered five detonators, five gelatin st...

Human trafficker nabbed in Guwahati, 8 girls rescued

The Government Railway Police nabbed a human trafficker and rescued eight girls from her clutches.

Three killed in mishap in J&K

Three persons were killed and two others critically injured when a car rammed into a roadside tree o...

Akhilesh govt takes ahead Agra-Lucknow Expressway project

The expressway will also help motorists cover a distance of about 530 km from Greater Noida to Luckn...

Govt panel for differently-abled air travellers

The government has constituted a committee to facilitate comfortable air travel for people with disa...

`Izzat` railway passes being misused, complain MPs

Members from across the political spectrum today alleged in the Lok Sabha that `Izzat` railway passe...

Maoists blow up rail tracks at Gurupa Station

The CPI (Maoist) ended their "Bharat bandh", called in protest against anti-Maoist operation, at mid...

MP: Woman held for possessing 6 pistols

A tribal woman was arrested after six country-made pistols were from her possession at Bina railway ...

NF Railway to run special train during Urs

The North East Frontier (NF) Railway will run a special train to clear extra rush of passengers duri...

Safety low priority for railways: CAG

The Comptroller and Auditor General has observed safety related works are being accorded low priorit...

Railways facing severe financial crunch: CAG

CAG report for the year ending March 2011 observed that railways has not been able to meet operation...

Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh seek to develop their NHs

Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh have sent their proposals for de-notifying the few stretches of National ...

Billions of life bearing planets float in the milky way

A few hundred thousand billion free-floating life-bearing earth-sized planets may exist in the space...

Fire erupts in Jammu Mail, no one injured

The blaze occurred on Hiranagar-Kathua stretch when a passenger threw a cigarette in the coach of De...

VISTA captures image of vast ball of stars

About 160 globular clusters have been spotted encircling our galaxy, the Milky Way, mostly toward it...

Central Rly implements new e-ticket refund system

Central Railway has implemented a new, Advance Coaching Refund System (ACRS) recently to reduce the ...

US: Toddler on `no-fly list`

About 20,000 people are on the no-fly list, according to a counter-terrorism official, including 500...

`Go to hell`, says shoe-thrower to Norway killer

An unidentified man interrupted the trial of mass killer Anders Behring Breivik, who massacred 77 pe...

Life bearing planets may be in millions

Researchers say a few hundred thousand billion free-floating life-bearing Earth-sized planets may ex...

Rlys for new system after problems in anti-collision device

The Indian Railway is considering an alternative system after trial runs of the anti-collision devic...

Special Yesvantpur-Ernakulam Express from May 18

The South Western Railway today announced that it would run weekly express special trains between Y...

Norway gunman asks to confront massacre survivors

Anders Behring Breivik has showed little sign of emotion during the trial, even when describing how ...

Why toll tax when there are no smooth roads: SC

SC questioned the justification of imposing tolls tax charges on people when the government cannot p...

Rajkot: Homesick boy from Bihar fakes kidnapping

A ten-year-old boy from Bihar, who claimed that he was kidnapped from Delhi and was on Tuesday found...

HC: Keep a post vacant in Rlwys Claims Tribunal

The central government has been directed by Delhi HC on the plea of a former member who was not give...

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