Patna: The Railways on Tuesday blamed the Bihar government for the train disaster at Dhamara Ghat in Khagaria district and said that actually 28 persons died in the accident, instead of 37 put by Chi

A day after a sleeper class coach of Chennai-bound Tamil Nadu Express was gutted in fire near Nellore in Andhra Pradesh, the Government Railway Police (GRP) here has pegged the death toll at 28 and nu

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

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

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

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

In a sheer act of bravery, a man rescued at least 20 persons from the fire that engulfed S11 coach of the Tamil Nadu Express near Nellore in the early hours of Monday. D. Ram Sudhakar, 45, branch man

Monday morning’s fire onboard coach S-11 of the Tamil Nadu Express left many families broken and bereaved. N.S. Veena, 30, a native of Madurai in Tamil Nadu, was seen weeping inconsolably on a hospita

D. Shalini, a city techie from the city, was charred to death in the Nellore train tragedy while two of her friends had a lucky escape. The three software engineers working for Accenture, Chennai, had

A newly-wed couple and the bride’s mother died in the fire that engulfed the Tamil Nadu Express on Monday.
K. Venkataramana, a software engineer, had boarded the train with wife Pallavi and mother-in