Asansol Express

Bhojpuri singer and actor Pawan Singh, who had expressed his inability to contest the Lok Sabha elections from West Bengal's Asansol just a day after the BJP announced his name for the constituency, took a U-turn on Wednesday.

Expressing disgust over the issue of nationalism and Pakistan being played up in election campaign, yesteryear actress and Trinamool Congress candidate from Asansol, Moon Moon Sen, said if needed, she would again talk to her old "friend" Imran Khan, the Pakistan prime minister.

Two days after six commuters fell sick after consuming poor-quality food served on the New Delhi-Sealdah Rajdhani Express, the Railways has served termination notice to the caterer, RK Associates, a Kanpur-based private agency engaged in train catering. Some passengers protested at the Asansol station in West Bengal over the quality of food served ...

A woman who works with an IT company in Kolkata is in a hospital in the city after she jumped off a train to avoid being molested by a man who entered a compartment she was travelling in. There was nobody else in the compartment at the time of the incident.

A coach attendant was killed and another seriously injured when they were shot at apparently by two ticketless travellers inside a moving express train in Burdwan district today.

One of the two elephants hit by a train in West Bengal late last month died Friday, following multi-organ failure, an official said.The two pachyderms were knocked down by the Asansol Express while they were crossing the rail track in the Dooars forest area of Banerhat in Jalpaiguri district June 26.The 30-year-old female elephant had multiple frac...

A herd of elephants were injured in Jalpaiguri district of North Bengal after being hit by a train on Saturday night.A herd of 60 elephants entered an area covered with tea gardens. At around 9.45 pm, the elephants were hit by the Asansol Express as they were crossing the railway tracks. Wildlife officials reached the spot in one hour and herded th...

Bhojpuri singer and actor Pawan Singh, who had expressed his inability to contest the Lok Sabha elections from West Bengal's Asansol just a day after the BJP announced his name for the constituency, took a U-turn on Wednesday.

Expressing disgust over the issue of nationalism and Pakistan being played up in election campaign, yesteryear actress and Trinamool Congress candidate from Asansol, Moon Moon Sen, said if needed, she would again talk to her old "friend" Imran Khan, the Pakistan prime minister.

Two days after six commuters fell sick after consuming poor-quality food served on the New Delhi-Sealdah Rajdhani Express, the Railways has served termination notice to the caterer, RK Associates, a Kanpur-based private agency engaged in train catering. Some passengers protested at the Asansol station in West Bengal over the quality of food served ...

A woman who works with an IT company in Kolkata is in a hospital in the city after she jumped off a train to avoid being molested by a man who entered a compartment she was travelling in. There was nobody else in the compartment at the time of the incident.

A coach attendant was killed and another seriously injured when they were shot at apparently by two ticketless travellers inside a moving express train in Burdwan district today.

One of the two elephants hit by a train in West Bengal late last month died Friday, following multi-organ failure, an official said.The two pachyderms were knocked down by the Asansol Express while they were crossing the rail track in the Dooars forest area of Banerhat in Jalpaiguri district June 26.The 30-year-old female elephant had multiple frac...

A herd of elephants were injured in Jalpaiguri district of North Bengal after being hit by a train on Saturday night.A herd of 60 elephants entered an area covered with tea gardens. At around 9.45 pm, the elephants were hit by the Asansol Express as they were crossing the railway tracks. Wildlife officials reached the spot in one hour and herded th...