Kumar was undergoing treatment in a private nursing home in Siliguri. Although a senior railway official confirmed Kumar's transfer to Maligaon near Guwahati, which is the headquarters of the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR), railway officials are tight-lipped on the exact time when the transfer...
The accident, which occurred near New Jalpaiguri railway station on June 17, killed 11 people and injured more than 40, including the guard of the Kanchenjunga Express and the loco pilot of the goods train that was hit from behind.Sources said that though the medical condition of goods train...
Sources said the first procedural lapse was that the "full block system" was not followed in the case of the goods train that hit the Kanchenjunga Express from behind.Absolute Block System (ABS) is followed by the Railways in case the automatic signaling system is inoperative in a particular...
Agartala (Tripura) [India], Tripura Transport Minister Sushant Choudhary said two people from the state were injured in a train accident in West Bengal that took 10 lives.On Monday morning, 10 people died and 25 were injured when they were hit by the Sealdah-bound Kanchenjunga Express near...
Maligaon (Assam) [India], Indian Railways Chief Public Relations Officer Sabyasachi Dey said train services on the down line of the accident-hit site between Rangapani and Chatterhat stations under the Katihar division of the North Frontier Railway resumed on Tuesday. . ,Services resumed at...
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], Kaushik Mitra, Chief Public Relations Officer of Eastern Railway, claimed that the loco pilot of the goods train ignored the signal, due to which the Kanchenjunga Express train crashed.Kaushik Mitra said, "Prima facie the reason is that the loco pilot of the...
Jalpaiguri/Kolkata: The official death toll in the Kanchenjunga Express accident has reached 10 with the death of a six-year-old girl on Tuesday morning, while her parents are admitted to the North Bengal Medical College and Hospital (NBMCH) and fighting for their lives. And struggling between...
New Delhi, Indian Youth Congress took out a candle march here on Tuesday in memory of the passengers killed in the Kanchenjunga Express train accident in Darjeeling district of West Bengal.Indian Youth Congress (IYC) workers took part in the march and paid tribute to the passengers killed in...
At least 11 people were killed and several injured when a goods train collided with the Sealdah-bound Kanchenjunga Express on Monday morning.According to an official, the canceled trains include Katihar-Siliguri Intercity Express, Siliguri-Katihar Intercity Express, New Jalpaiguri-Howrah...
KOLKATA: The undamaged coach of the Kanchenjunga Express, which collided with a goods train near New Jalpaiguri, killing 10 people and injuring several, with around 850 passengers on board, was on Tuesday morning, according to an Eastern Railway official. Reached Sealdah station here.At least...
Darjeeling (West Bengal) [India], June 17: A passenger traveling on the Kanchenjunga Express at the time of the accident lodged a complaint against the loco pilot and co-loco pilot of the goods train.A goods train allegedly ignored signals and collided with the Sealdah-bound Kanchenjunga...
Eleven-year-old Sneha Mandal, a passenger of the Kanchenjunga Express, was admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit of the North Bengal Medical College and Hospital (NMCH) in Siliguri on Monday.Officials said that since then doctors were trying their best to save his life. However, all...
Siliguri (West Bengal) [India], Two passengers of the Kanchenjunga Express train, who were admitted to the North Bengal Medical College and Hospital with serious injuries, died on Tuesday, bringing the death toll after being hit by a goods train. The number increased. A day ago, this number...
New Delhi [India], Chief Commissioner of Railway Safety, Northeast Frontier Railway, Janak Kumar Garg, will conduct a statutory inquiry on June 19 in connection with the Kanchenjunga Express tragedy, in which eight people lost their lives and 25 were injured.The inquiry will be held on June 19...
Darjeeling (West Bengal) [India] Train services resumed on Tuesday on the railway line in Phansidewa area of Darjeeling district, where the Kanchenjunga Express train had met with an accident on Monday, killing 8 people and nearly 25 others. People were injured.A railway official told ANI...
Nine people were killed and several others injured when they were hit by a goods train near New Jalpaiguri, Kolkata. The ordeal of Kanchenjunga Express passengers ended on Tuesday morning when the damaged coaches of the train reached their destination Sealdah station. , said an Eastern Railway...
A senior official of the state administration confirmed that a passenger of the Kanchenjunga Express, who was injured in the accident and was undergoing treatment at the North Bengal Medical College and Hospital in Siliguri, died on Tuesday morning.Earlier on Monday, nine bodies were...
Maligaon (Assam) [India], Following the Kanchenjunga Express accident that left eight dead and 25 injured, officials said several trains were canceled on Tuesday, while some were diverted.According to an official release of Northeast Frontier Railway, five trains, including (15719)...
Darjeeling (West Bengal) [India], Kanchenjunga Express, which collided with a goods train and killed eight people, reached its destination station, Sealdah in Kolkata early on Tuesday after completion of restoration work.This accident happened on Monday in Phansidewa area of Darjeeling...
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Hitting back at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for "politicizing" the Kanchenjunga Express accident, Union Minister Ramdas Athawale said the Bengal CM should avoid politicizing the issue.Speaking to ANI, Republican Party of India President and Union...