Crowded Mumbai Station

The woman has been identified as Seema Kanojiya, who is an Instagram blogger with more than 4.8 lakh followers.

An old video of a man squeezing himself inside a crowded Mumbai Metro train is going viral on social media again.

A video of a train station in Mumbai, with false claims that it was from this month right after local trains reopened to the general public, has been widely circulated social media in the recent weeks. The 21-second clip shows huge crowds on the platform as well as the on the tracks, trying to get in and out of trains at the Borivali station in the...

The Maharashtra Police had to use force to disperse a crowd that gathered at the railway station and on tracks in Nallasopara area of Palghar district demanding that they be allowed to board local trains to reach their workplaces in Mumbai, about two hours away.

Huge crowds of migrant labourers, hopeful of catching a train home, gathered at Mumbai's CST terminal this afternoon. Till late in the evening, they were still there. Such huge crowds outside Mumbai's railway stations have become a regular occurrence.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray said the gathering by migrant labourers in Bandra took place because of people spreading rumours. Defying the lockdown against coronavirus, the labourers had gathered hoping to go home as the countrywide lockdown was extended for another two weeks. The matter ended with police using force to disperse the ...

Mumbai, the city with the highest cases of coronavirus, became the site of a huge protest this afternoon as hordes of migrant workers gathered outside Mumbais Bandra station to protest against the extension of the lockdown.

Suburban train services on the Central Railway (CR) near Mumbai were briefly disrupted on Thursday morning as some women passengers held a 'rail roko' protest at Diva station after they failed to enter into the crowded compartments of the local train, an official said.

Building an underground metro in one of the world's most crowded cities is no easy task but Mumbai has taken up this challenge. For the Devendra Fadnavis government, the project is a matter of prestige and the chief minister's office is monitoring the progress closely as work goes on round the clock. Tunnels are being constructed under religious si...

In what is being described as the "Christmas gift" to Mumbai, the country's first air-conditioned (AC) suburban train made its maiden journey this morning from Borivili to Churchgate. In its first week, the Mumbai AC local, will ferry passengers from Churchgate to Borivali, and from Churchgate to Virar from next week onwards. Thousands of excited c...

Passenger safety will be top priority, Railways Minister Piyush Goyal declared on Saturday as he announced a series of measures a day after 23 people were killed in a stampede at a crowded station in Mumbai. After chairing a nine-hour-long high-level meeting, the minister said that he had empowered officials "to spend whatever is necessary on safet...

Targeted for Friday's stampede in Mumbai that killed 23, Railways Minister Piyush Goyal fought off the perception that the government didn't want to invest in safety of suburban commuters but found money for the bullet train. After spending nine hours at meetings, closeted with top bureaucrats, Mr Goyal gave officials powers to spend on safety-rela...

"Papa, you go ahead, I will come, let the crowd thin out," 25-year-old Shraddha Varpe told her father as the two tried to make their way out of the Parel railway station in central Mumbai today morning.

A Mumbai commuter who survived the stampede that killed 22 this morning, describes how she kept herself calm amid "panic and chaos and an insane crowd" on a railway bridge at Elphinstone station after just a 20-minute rain. When she somehow managed to come out, she saw bodies.

Extremely disturbing visuals after a stampede that killed 22 people at a bridge connecting two busy train stations in Mumbai showed a pile of bodies on the narrow stairs and people hanging precariously onto a railing.

The woman has been identified as Seema Kanojiya, who is an Instagram blogger with more than 4.8 lakh followers.

An old video of a man squeezing himself inside a crowded Mumbai Metro train is going viral on social media again.

A video of a train station in Mumbai, with false claims that it was from this month right after local trains reopened to the general public, has been widely circulated social media in the recent weeks. The 21-second clip shows huge crowds on the platform as well as the on the tracks, trying to get in and out of trains at the Borivali station in the...

The Maharashtra Police had to use force to disperse a crowd that gathered at the railway station and on tracks in Nallasopara area of Palghar district demanding that they be allowed to board local trains to reach their workplaces in Mumbai, about two hours away.

Huge crowds of migrant labourers, hopeful of catching a train home, gathered at Mumbai's CST terminal this afternoon. Till late in the evening, they were still there. Such huge crowds outside Mumbai's railway stations have become a regular occurrence.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray said the gathering by migrant labourers in Bandra took place because of people spreading rumours. Defying the lockdown against coronavirus, the labourers had gathered hoping to go home as the countrywide lockdown was extended for another two weeks. The matter ended with police using force to disperse the ...

Mumbai, the city with the highest cases of coronavirus, became the site of a huge protest this afternoon as hordes of migrant workers gathered outside Mumbais Bandra station to protest against the extension of the lockdown.

Suburban train services on the Central Railway (CR) near Mumbai were briefly disrupted on Thursday morning as some women passengers held a 'rail roko' protest at Diva station after they failed to enter into the crowded compartments of the local train, an official said.

Building an underground metro in one of the world's most crowded cities is no easy task but Mumbai has taken up this challenge. For the Devendra Fadnavis government, the project is a matter of prestige and the chief minister's office is monitoring the progress closely as work goes on round the clock. Tunnels are being constructed under religious si...

In what is being described as the "Christmas gift" to Mumbai, the country's first air-conditioned (AC) suburban train made its maiden journey this morning from Borivili to Churchgate. In its first week, the Mumbai AC local, will ferry passengers from Churchgate to Borivali, and from Churchgate to Virar from next week onwards. Thousands of excited c...

Passenger safety will be top priority, Railways Minister Piyush Goyal declared on Saturday as he announced a series of measures a day after 23 people were killed in a stampede at a crowded station in Mumbai. After chairing a nine-hour-long high-level meeting, the minister said that he had empowered officials "to spend whatever is necessary on safet...

Targeted for Friday's stampede in Mumbai that killed 23, Railways Minister Piyush Goyal fought off the perception that the government didn't want to invest in safety of suburban commuters but found money for the bullet train. After spending nine hours at meetings, closeted with top bureaucrats, Mr Goyal gave officials powers to spend on safety-rela...

"Papa, you go ahead, I will come, let the crowd thin out," 25-year-old Shraddha Varpe told her father as the two tried to make their way out of the Parel railway station in central Mumbai today morning.

A Mumbai commuter who survived the stampede that killed 22 this morning, describes how she kept herself calm amid "panic and chaos and an insane crowd" on a railway bridge at Elphinstone station after just a 20-minute rain. When she somehow managed to come out, she saw bodies.

Extremely disturbing visuals after a stampede that killed 22 people at a bridge connecting two busy train stations in Mumbai showed a pile of bodies on the narrow stairs and people hanging precariously onto a railing.