Toll now 30 in Tamil Nadu Express fire
The toll in the Tamil Nadu Express fire mishap rose to 30 following the death of one of the injured, Sukhdev Singh, 23, of Tilvandi Dogra village, 20 km from Amritsar, in Punjab, at Narayana general h
SCR ignores safety lapses
Lapses in basic security in railways is becoming a cause of major concern, with SCR authorities tending to overlook them. There are scanty security personnel and scarcity of essentials like metal det
SCR failed to act on RPF warning
The Railway Protection Force had alerted South Central Railway authorities months ago about the rising crime and safety concerns on trains running on the Delhi-Chennai route, but the railway authoriti
Parents go for DNA test to identify boy
Kin of Avinash Madarap, a victim of the train fire tragedy, who was a software engineer with TCS, Chennai, opted for a DNA test as they failed to identify his body among the dead at the mortuary here
Sabotage ruled out in train tragedy
Experts from the Andhra Pradesh Forensic Science Laboratory, who examined the Tamil Nadu Express where the fire broke out on Monday, have ruled out sabotage. Some passengers had said they heard a big