Women Train Compartments

A ruckus broke out at the Badlapur railway station, 70 km from Mumbai, on Tuesday morning after women passengers travelling on a local train closed the doors of a ladies' compartment from inside to keep new passengers out, an official said.

The women's compartment of a Mumbai suburban train yesterday witnessed an ugly brawl between co-passengers, with some women coming to blows and even injuring a policewoman on duty.

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.

The Indian Railways has decided to reserve six more berths in the AC-3 tiers of Rajdhani, Duronto and other fully air-conditioned trains except the Garib Rath Express.

A man who was masturbating on a platform at a railway station in West Bengal was shown live on Facebook by a woman inside a train. The train was about to leave the Bandel station when the man began to masturbate right outside the women's compartment. The man escaped after the railways staff took notice.

Coaches reserved for women will now be placed in the centre of trains instead of its rear end and will be painted in a different colour, to make them easily identifiable, sources in the ministry say.

Sayara, 46, sits among the mourning women, her hand pressed closely against her chest as if to stop her heart from breaking. Her blue-grey eyes look at you, through you, beyond you. She is the mother of the young men who were lynched on Thursday evening on the train which runs from Delhi to Mathura.

World Bank's chief executive Kristalina Georgieva travelled in the second class women's only compartment of a Western Railway suburban train from the busy stations of Churchgate to Dadar in Mumbai to experience the city's popular transportation service, officials said.

The Kolkata-bound Maitree Express train, which runs between India and Bangladesh, rammed a private car in central Bangladesh today, killing five members of a family, including women and children, police said. The Maitree Express train hit a car on a level-crossing in Kaliakoir upazila of Gazipur around 10:15 am, Motaleb Mia, officer-in-charge (OC) ...

In another blow to Mumbai's reputation as a city safe for women, a 27-year-old was allegedly molested in the first class compartment of a local train on Tuesday night.

Help may soon be just a click of a button away for women travelling in ladies compartments on Central Railway (CR). The authorities have decided to equip the coaches reserved for women in all its trains with an emergency button. Other than that, every coach, general or reserved, will soon have a closed-circuit television (CCTV) camera to keep watch...

A court in Kerala has awarded the death sentence to a man who raped and murdered a young salesgirl named Soumya, who he found in the women's compartment of a train.

A ruckus broke out at the Badlapur railway station, 70 km from Mumbai, on Tuesday morning after women passengers travelling on a local train closed the doors of a ladies' compartment from inside to keep new passengers out, an official said.

The women's compartment of a Mumbai suburban train yesterday witnessed an ugly brawl between co-passengers, with some women coming to blows and even injuring a policewoman on duty.

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.

The Indian Railways has decided to reserve six more berths in the AC-3 tiers of Rajdhani, Duronto and other fully air-conditioned trains except the Garib Rath Express.

A man who was masturbating on a platform at a railway station in West Bengal was shown live on Facebook by a woman inside a train. The train was about to leave the Bandel station when the man began to masturbate right outside the women's compartment. The man escaped after the railways staff took notice.

Coaches reserved for women will now be placed in the centre of trains instead of its rear end and will be painted in a different colour, to make them easily identifiable, sources in the ministry say.

Sayara, 46, sits among the mourning women, her hand pressed closely against her chest as if to stop her heart from breaking. Her blue-grey eyes look at you, through you, beyond you. She is the mother of the young men who were lynched on Thursday evening on the train which runs from Delhi to Mathura.

World Bank's chief executive Kristalina Georgieva travelled in the second class women's only compartment of a Western Railway suburban train from the busy stations of Churchgate to Dadar in Mumbai to experience the city's popular transportation service, officials said.

The Kolkata-bound Maitree Express train, which runs between India and Bangladesh, rammed a private car in central Bangladesh today, killing five members of a family, including women and children, police said. The Maitree Express train hit a car on a level-crossing in Kaliakoir upazila of Gazipur around 10:15 am, Motaleb Mia, officer-in-charge (OC) ...

In another blow to Mumbai's reputation as a city safe for women, a 27-year-old was allegedly molested in the first class compartment of a local train on Tuesday night.

Help may soon be just a click of a button away for women travelling in ladies compartments on Central Railway (CR). The authorities have decided to equip the coaches reserved for women in all its trains with an emergency button. Other than that, every coach, general or reserved, will soon have a closed-circuit television (CCTV) camera to keep watch...

A court in Kerala has awarded the death sentence to a man who raped and murdered a young salesgirl named Soumya, who he found in the women's compartment of a train.