Uttarbanga Express

Close on the heels of the train collision in Sainthia in West Bengal earlier this week, another accident was averted in Bihar's Begusarai district. Luckily, the driver of the Mahananda Express and station officials realised in time that a goods train was already standing on the platform the Express was about to enter.The train was then shunted back...

Home Minister P Chidambaram has said the response in reaching relief to the site of the train accident in West Bengal earlier this week should have been better.Two passenger trains collided early on Monday morning, killing close to 60 people.  The accident took place at the Sainthia station, 190 km from Howrah.(West Bengal train accident: 60 d...

A physically and mentally challenged teenager cried inconsolably outside the morgue in Suri Sadar Hospital in Birbhum district, where the body of his mother along with that of other victims of the train collision in Sainthia station were kept.The boy, Raju Mondal, refused to talk or eat anything since his mother, Kamli Devi, died.Raju, a resident o...

The death toll in Monday's Sainthia train collision in West Bengal has reached 63, with only 33 bodies identified so far. All bodies recovered from the wreckage will be shifted to Bardhaman Medical College hospital today. (See Pictures)While an enquiry is underway to ascertain what actually caused this devastating accident, preliminary reports poin...

Heavy-duty gas cutters were being brought from Panagarh to extricate bodies trapped in the mangled coaches of Vananchal Express which was hit in the rear by the Uttarbanga Express early on Monday at the Sainthia station. "The National Disaster Management forces, including the BSF and police are extricating bodies from the severely damaged coaches a...

Close on the heels of the train collision in Sainthia in West Bengal earlier this week, another accident was averted in Bihar's Begusarai district. Luckily, the driver of the Mahananda Express and station officials realised in time that a goods train was already standing on the platform the Express was about to enter.The train was then shunted back...

Home Minister P Chidambaram has said the response in reaching relief to the site of the train accident in West Bengal earlier this week should have been better.Two passenger trains collided early on Monday morning, killing close to 60 people.  The accident took place at the Sainthia station, 190 km from Howrah.(West Bengal train accident: 60 d...

A physically and mentally challenged teenager cried inconsolably outside the morgue in Suri Sadar Hospital in Birbhum district, where the body of his mother along with that of other victims of the train collision in Sainthia station were kept.The boy, Raju Mondal, refused to talk or eat anything since his mother, Kamli Devi, died.Raju, a resident o...

The death toll in Monday's Sainthia train collision in West Bengal has reached 63, with only 33 bodies identified so far. All bodies recovered from the wreckage will be shifted to Bardhaman Medical College hospital today. (See Pictures)While an enquiry is underway to ascertain what actually caused this devastating accident, preliminary reports poin...

Heavy-duty gas cutters were being brought from Panagarh to extricate bodies trapped in the mangled coaches of Vananchal Express which was hit in the rear by the Uttarbanga Express early on Monday at the Sainthia station. "The National Disaster Management forces, including the BSF and police are extricating bodies from the severely damaged coaches a...