Indore Train Accident

Two Class X girls died late Thursday evening after being hit by a train that was being operated as part of tests on a newly-laid track in Indore in Madhya Pradesh, prompting Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw to order an inquiry, an official said.

A womanwas saved from being run down by a train in Indore due to the presence of mind of her fellow passengers. The woman was attempting to board a moving train on Tuesday. While doing so, she slipped and would have been pulled under the wheels of

The role of ISI in the recent train disaster in Kanpur was being suspected after Bihar police today arrested three people who they claimed were working for the Pakistani intelligence agency to target Indian railways.

Santosh Upadhyay boarded the train in Ujjain at 3 pm on Saturday and was on his way to Kanpur. In Bhopal, a woman who boarded the train, requested him to swap seats as she wanted to travel with a friend in S2. Mr Upadhyay agreed and moved to S5 around 10:30 pm.

Amid fear and prayers on their lips, the passengers of bi-weekly Indore-Patna Express, its first trip after the derailment tragedy, today embarked on their journey even as the train remained crowded the way it has always been.

Neha Singh has a dazed look on her face as she tries to comfort her 5-year-old son Yash on her hospital bed. As she turns her face towards us, the nature of her injuries - relics of Sunday morning's deadly train crash near Kanpur that claimed nearly 150 lives - becomes apparent.

India is in urgent need of upgrading its railways and China can offer the necessary help, official media said here today as it expressed concerns over the poor maintenance of India's rail network following the deadly train derailment that claimed over 147 lives.

At a hospital in Uttar Pradesh where hundreds injured in the Indore-Patna Express train accident are being treated, a five-year-old has only four words to say: "Where is my mother?"

Promising "strictest possible action" against the guilty, government today announced a thorough investigation aided by latest technical and forensic analysis into yesterday's train accident near Kanpur in which the death toll has mounted to 145.

Russia and France have condoled the loss of lives in the Indore-Patna Express train tragedy on Sunday with French government expressing solidarity with India in this terrible ordeal.

An elderly woman's "charri" (stick) proved to be the savior for a family of seven from Muzaffarpur in the tragic Indore-Patna Express derailment in Uttar Pradesh.

The last thing Uttam Kumar remembers is a huge bang as his carriage was violently crushed. When he came to, he was trapped upside down in the wreckage of the Indore-Patna Express that derailed on Sunday, killing more than 140 people.

Rescue workers have called off the search for possible survivors in the wreckage of the Indore-Patna Express that went off track on Sunday, killing 143 passengers in their sleep and leaving hundreds injured.

The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) has rescued 54 passengers, of them 16 who were critically injured, from the train that derailed near Kanpur early on Sunday, said an official.

The wheels of the Indore-Patna Express had made some strange sound, a passenger of the ill-fated train today said, claiming that he had also alerted a railway official about it.

Two Class X girls died late Thursday evening after being hit by a train that was being operated as part of tests on a newly-laid track in Indore in Madhya Pradesh, prompting Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw to order an inquiry, an official said.

A womanwas saved from being run down by a train in Indore due to the presence of mind of her fellow passengers. The woman was attempting to board a moving train on Tuesday. While doing so, she slipped and would have been pulled under the wheels of

The role of ISI in the recent train disaster in Kanpur was being suspected after Bihar police today arrested three people who they claimed were working for the Pakistani intelligence agency to target Indian railways.

Santosh Upadhyay boarded the train in Ujjain at 3 pm on Saturday and was on his way to Kanpur. In Bhopal, a woman who boarded the train, requested him to swap seats as she wanted to travel with a friend in S2. Mr Upadhyay agreed and moved to S5 around 10:30 pm.

Amid fear and prayers on their lips, the passengers of bi-weekly Indore-Patna Express, its first trip after the derailment tragedy, today embarked on their journey even as the train remained crowded the way it has always been.

Neha Singh has a dazed look on her face as she tries to comfort her 5-year-old son Yash on her hospital bed. As she turns her face towards us, the nature of her injuries - relics of Sunday morning's deadly train crash near Kanpur that claimed nearly 150 lives - becomes apparent.

India is in urgent need of upgrading its railways and China can offer the necessary help, official media said here today as it expressed concerns over the poor maintenance of India's rail network following the deadly train derailment that claimed over 147 lives.

At a hospital in Uttar Pradesh where hundreds injured in the Indore-Patna Express train accident are being treated, a five-year-old has only four words to say: "Where is my mother?"

Promising "strictest possible action" against the guilty, government today announced a thorough investigation aided by latest technical and forensic analysis into yesterday's train accident near Kanpur in which the death toll has mounted to 145.

Russia and France have condoled the loss of lives in the Indore-Patna Express train tragedy on Sunday with French government expressing solidarity with India in this terrible ordeal.

An elderly woman's "charri" (stick) proved to be the savior for a family of seven from Muzaffarpur in the tragic Indore-Patna Express derailment in Uttar Pradesh.

The last thing Uttam Kumar remembers is a huge bang as his carriage was violently crushed. When he came to, he was trapped upside down in the wreckage of the Indore-Patna Express that derailed on Sunday, killing more than 140 people.

Rescue workers have called off the search for possible survivors in the wreckage of the Indore-Patna Express that went off track on Sunday, killing 143 passengers in their sleep and leaving hundreds injured.

The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) has rescued 54 passengers, of them 16 who were critically injured, from the train that derailed near Kanpur early on Sunday, said an official.

The wheels of the Indore-Patna Express had made some strange sound, a passenger of the ill-fated train today said, claiming that he had also alerted a railway official about it.