Vande Bharat Fire

Vande Bharat Express is in news again, not for stone attacks or collisions with cattle, but for a ticketless passenger who could not resist the craving for a cigarette during the journey.

A passenger smoking inside a toilet on the Tirupati-Secunderabad Vande Bharat Express triggered a false alarm and an automatic fire extinguisher, and stopped the train for a while on Wednesday evening, a railway official said.

Railway Board chairman Anil Kumar Lahoti on Sunday allayed fears about fire safety in Vande Bharat Express trains, saying that these semi-high-speed trains have "very good" arrangements on this front.

In the latest incident involving a Vande Bharat train, the battery box in one coach of the Bhopal-Delhi Vande Bharat Express caught fire this morning. All passengers are safe and no injury has been reported.

A minor fire broke out in the transformer of a coach of the Vande Bharat Express, sources said today, making it the latest in a series of incidents plaguing India's fastest train.

Vande Bharat Express is in news again, not for stone attacks or collisions with cattle, but for a ticketless passenger who could not resist the craving for a cigarette during the journey.

A passenger smoking inside a toilet on the Tirupati-Secunderabad Vande Bharat Express triggered a false alarm and an automatic fire extinguisher, and stopped the train for a while on Wednesday evening, a railway official said.

Railway Board chairman Anil Kumar Lahoti on Sunday allayed fears about fire safety in Vande Bharat Express trains, saying that these semi-high-speed trains have "very good" arrangements on this front.

In the latest incident involving a Vande Bharat train, the battery box in one coach of the Bhopal-Delhi Vande Bharat Express caught fire this morning. All passengers are safe and no injury has been reported.

A minor fire broke out in the transformer of a coach of the Vande Bharat Express, sources said today, making it the latest in a series of incidents plaguing India's fastest train.