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Funds Crunch To Contract Staff: Mumbai Bus Crash Spotlights Crippled BEST
The chilling bus crash in Mumbai's Kurla, which left seven people dead and 42 others injured, has put under the spotlight inadequate training and poor work conditions of contractual drivers operating buses of BEST
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Exclusive: Union Minister Nitin Gadkari Announces New Scheme for Vehicle Fitness and Driving Centers
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari will introduce a new scheme for vehicle fitness centers and driving training centers in the country tomorrow.
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4 KYKL Terrorists Arrested For Kidnapping Train Driver In Manipur: Police
Four members of the terrorist group Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup (KYKL) were arrested in Manipur's Imphal East district for kidnapping and assaulting a 23-year-old railway driver, the police said in a statement today.
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Suspicious Object On Tracks In Kanpur Again, Train Driver Brakes In Time
Yet again a suspicious object was found on a railway track in Uttar Pradesh, this time in Kanpur. The police said the loco pilot of Pushpak Express noticed the red cylinder lying on the track, and applied brakes just in time.
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Goods Train Driver Applies Emergency Brake As Gas Cylinder Found On Track
An empty gas cylinder was found on the tracks by a goods train loco pilot, who applied emergency brakes and stopped the train near Prempur railway station in Kanpur on Sunday, the second such incident in Uttar Pradesh this month.
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Japan Might Have Driverless Bullet Trains By Mid-2030s
Shinkansen bullet trains could be whizzing around Japan without drivers from the mid-2030s, one of its main rail operators said, motivated in part by the country's demographic crisis.
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Train Accident Averted In Madhya Pradesh After Tractor Found On Track
A rail mishap was averted on Monday in Madhya Pradesh after a tractor stalled on the tracks and a train driver stopped in time by applying brakes, a police official said.
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Drivers Complain Of Unhygienic Food, Dirty Rooms; Railway Board Intervenes
Bedbugs and mosquitoes can spoil anyone's sleep but they can also potentially threaten safe train operations, reveal entries made in the complaint books kept in railway running rooms, where local pilots rest after completing their outstation duties.
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Loco Pilots Save 2 Lions On Railway Track By Halting Goods Train In Gujarat
Two alert loco pilots of a goods train saved the lives of two lions that had wandered onto a railway track in Gujarat's Amreli district in the early hours of Monday, an official said.
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Train Driver Convicted Over Spain's Worst Crash In Decades That Killed 79
A Spanish train driver and a former traffic safety chief at national rail infrastructure operator ADIF were sentenced on Friday to two-and-a-half years in prison over a train disaster that killed 79 people 11 years ago.
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Driver Of Train That Derailed In UP Claims He Heard Loud Explosion
The driver of the Chandigarh-Dibrugarh Express heard a loud explosion before multiple coaches derailed in Uttar Pradesh's Gonda Thursday evening.
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Wrong Interpretation Of Signals Led To Kanchanjunga Express Collision: Report
The accident involving Kanchanjunga Express and a goods train in West Bengal's Darjeeling district last month occurred due to wrong interpretation of signals by the goods train driver, according to a preliminary report accessed by NDTV.
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"Scared When We Think About Travelling By Train": Survivors Of Bengal Crash
Survivors of an Indian double train crash that killed nine people described on Tuesday their terror when a driver missed a signal and rammed a goods train into a passenger express.
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Human Error In Bengal Train Accident? What Railway Board Boss Said
Prima facie findings into the Kanchanjunga Express accident in West Bengal show that the goods train violated speed restrictions it had to follow given the "defective" automatic signalling system on the section and rammed into the stationary passenge
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Driver Praised For Halting Goods Train, Saving Lives Of 10 Lions On Track
The incident took place when Mukesh Kumar Meena was piloting the goods train from Pipavav Port station to a siding, a release from Western Railway's Bhavnagar division said.
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Funds Crunch To Contract Staff: Mumbai Bus Crash Spotlights Crippled BEST
The chilling bus crash in Mumbai's Kurla, which left seven people dead and 42 others injured, has put under the spotlight inadequate training and poor work conditions of contractual drivers operating buses of BEST
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Exclusive: Union Minister Nitin Gadkari Announces New Scheme for Vehicle Fitness and Driving Centers
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari will introduce a new scheme for vehicle fitness centers and driving training centers in the country tomorrow.
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4 KYKL Terrorists Arrested For Kidnapping Train Driver In Manipur: Police
Four members of the terrorist group Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup (KYKL) were arrested in Manipur's Imphal East district for kidnapping and assaulting a 23-year-old railway driver, the police said in a statement today.
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Suspicious Object On Tracks In Kanpur Again, Train Driver Brakes In Time
Yet again a suspicious object was found on a railway track in Uttar Pradesh, this time in Kanpur. The police said the loco pilot of Pushpak Express noticed the red cylinder lying on the track, and applied brakes just in time.
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Goods Train Driver Applies Emergency Brake As Gas Cylinder Found On Track
An empty gas cylinder was found on the tracks by a goods train loco pilot, who applied emergency brakes and stopped the train near Prempur railway station in Kanpur on Sunday, the second such incident in Uttar Pradesh this month.
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Japan Might Have Driverless Bullet Trains By Mid-2030s
Shinkansen bullet trains could be whizzing around Japan without drivers from the mid-2030s, one of its main rail operators said, motivated in part by the country's demographic crisis.
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Train Accident Averted In Madhya Pradesh After Tractor Found On Track
A rail mishap was averted on Monday in Madhya Pradesh after a tractor stalled on the tracks and a train driver stopped in time by applying brakes, a police official said.
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Drivers Complain Of Unhygienic Food, Dirty Rooms; Railway Board Intervenes
Bedbugs and mosquitoes can spoil anyone's sleep but they can also potentially threaten safe train operations, reveal entries made in the complaint books kept in railway running rooms, where local pilots rest after completing their outstation duties.
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Loco Pilots Save 2 Lions On Railway Track By Halting Goods Train In Gujarat
Two alert loco pilots of a goods train saved the lives of two lions that had wandered onto a railway track in Gujarat's Amreli district in the early hours of Monday, an official said.
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Train Driver Convicted Over Spain's Worst Crash In Decades That Killed 79
A Spanish train driver and a former traffic safety chief at national rail infrastructure operator ADIF were sentenced on Friday to two-and-a-half years in prison over a train disaster that killed 79 people 11 years ago.
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Driver Of Train That Derailed In UP Claims He Heard Loud Explosion
The driver of the Chandigarh-Dibrugarh Express heard a loud explosion before multiple coaches derailed in Uttar Pradesh's Gonda Thursday evening.
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Wrong Interpretation Of Signals Led To Kanchanjunga Express Collision: Report
The accident involving Kanchanjunga Express and a goods train in West Bengal's Darjeeling district last month occurred due to wrong interpretation of signals by the goods train driver, according to a preliminary report accessed by NDTV.
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"Scared When We Think About Travelling By Train": Survivors Of Bengal Crash
Survivors of an Indian double train crash that killed nine people described on Tuesday their terror when a driver missed a signal and rammed a goods train into a passenger express.
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Human Error In Bengal Train Accident? What Railway Board Boss Said
Prima facie findings into the Kanchanjunga Express accident in West Bengal show that the goods train violated speed restrictions it had to follow given the "defective" automatic signalling system on the section and rammed into the stationary passenge
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Driver Praised For Halting Goods Train, Saving Lives Of 10 Lions On Track
The incident took place when Mukesh Kumar Meena was piloting the goods train from Pipavav Port station to a siding, a release from Western Railway's Bhavnagar division said.
