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Mumbai's Elphinstone Road Station To Be Renamed As Prabhadevi
In another case of changing the British era names, the Western Railway on Tuesday renamed Elphinstone Road Station to Prabhadevi on Mumbai's suburban section.
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'Will Army Fill Potholes Too?' Mumbai Bridge-Building Plan Criticised
The Army will help build a new bridge at Mumbai's Elphinstone Road train station, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis announced today as union ministers Nirmala Sitharaman and Piyush Goyal visited the site where 23 were killed in a rush hour stampede a month ago.
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Mumbai Stampede: Petitions Seek Action, Court Asks 'Why Wake Up After Tragedy?
Activists in Mumbai were pulled up by the high court for being casual about the safety of commuters and "waking up" to the "serious and sensitive" issue only after the Elphinstone Road station stampede killed 23 and injured many.
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Railways Evict Illegal Hawkers From Stations, Foot Overbridges
In a bid to prevent incidents like the Elphinstone station stampede that claimed 23 lives, the railway administration has undertaken a drive to evict illegal hawkers from the entry and exit points of the station as well as from the foot overbridges to ease commuter movement.
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Mumbai Stampede: Was Woman Molested? Cops Investigate
A viral video has led the police to investigate another alleged crime that occurred after the stampede on the Elphinstone Road station foot overbridge (FOB). The video shows a woman allegedly being molested by a person who came to help the trapped people, as she lay amid the pile of victims on the FOB.
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Sena Men Allegedly Assault Senior Doctor For Marking Mumbai Stampede Victims
A group of Shiv Sena workers barged in to Mumbai's KEM Hospital on Saturday and allegedly assaulted a senior doctor formarking of bodies of the Elphinstone Road station stampede victims, police said. They overpowered him and tried to scribble on his forehead last evening, a senior police officer said.
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Not Excuse But Inherited Big Problems, Says Railways Minister: 10 Facts
Targeted for Friday's stampede in Mumbai that killed 23, Railways Minister Piyush Goyal fought off the perception that the government didn't want to invest in safety of suburban commuters but found money for the bullet train. After spending nine hours at meetings, closeted with top bureaucrats, Mr Goyal gave officials powers to spend on safety-rela...
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'His Face Was Completely Crushed,' Says Family Of Mumbai Stampede's Youngest Victim
Akash Parab has no knowledge of his 11-year-old brother Rohit's demise. Rohit is the youngest victim of the Elphinstone Road station stampede that killed 23 and injured more than 30. As Akash, 19, lay in ward number 20A of Mumbai's KEM hospital, his wounds, after being trampled over in the stampede yesterday, are raw and visible. His family doesn't...
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'It's A Scientific Method,' Clarifies Mumbai Hospital On Marking Stampede Victims
When the anxious relatives reached Mumbai's KEM hospital, they were appalled to see numbers scribbled on the foreheads of the Elphinstone Road station stampede victims. Their photographs were also put up on a flex board by the hospital.
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Like Notes Ban, Bullet Train Will Kill Everything: P Chidambaram's Jibe At PM Modi
The day after 22 commuters died in a stampede at Mumbai's Elphinstone station bridge, Congress leader P Chidambaram scaled up the attack on the bullet train project, saying the high-speed train would, like demonetisation, "kill everything else including safety".
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'Population Jumped, Infrastructure Unchanged', Mumbai's Struggle For Survival
The tragedy that struck the 'city of dreams' yesterday, extinguished at least 22 lives on a narrow, rickety foot overbridge linking Parel and Elphinstone Road stations.
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Shiv Sena Says Mumbai Stampede Is 'Massacre'
The Shiv Sena today termed the stampede in which 22 railway commuters were killed as a "public massacre".
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Congress President Sonia Gandhi Calls Mumbai Stampede Man-Made Disaster
Congress President Sonia Gandhi today expressed shock and anguish over the death of 22 persons in a stampede in Mumbai and said the "man-made" disaster could have been avoided by taking care of the safety aspect.
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Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Elphinstone Station Renamed
The famed Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus and headquarters of the Central Railway has been renamed by adding 'Maharaj', while Western Railway's Elphinstone Road station has been rechristened as 'Prabhadevi' station, an official said today.
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Mumbai's Elphinstone Road Station To Be Renamed As Prabhadevi
In another case of changing the British era names, the Western Railway on Tuesday renamed Elphinstone Road Station to Prabhadevi on Mumbai's suburban section.
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'Will Army Fill Potholes Too?' Mumbai Bridge-Building Plan Criticised
The Army will help build a new bridge at Mumbai's Elphinstone Road train station, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis announced today as union ministers Nirmala Sitharaman and Piyush Goyal visited the site where 23 were killed in a rush hour stampede a month ago.
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Mumbai Stampede: Petitions Seek Action, Court Asks 'Why Wake Up After Tragedy?
Activists in Mumbai were pulled up by the high court for being casual about the safety of commuters and "waking up" to the "serious and sensitive" issue only after the Elphinstone Road station stampede killed 23 and injured many.
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Railways Evict Illegal Hawkers From Stations, Foot Overbridges
In a bid to prevent incidents like the Elphinstone station stampede that claimed 23 lives, the railway administration has undertaken a drive to evict illegal hawkers from the entry and exit points of the station as well as from the foot overbridges to ease commuter movement.
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Mumbai Stampede: Was Woman Molested? Cops Investigate
A viral video has led the police to investigate another alleged crime that occurred after the stampede on the Elphinstone Road station foot overbridge (FOB). The video shows a woman allegedly being molested by a person who came to help the trapped people, as she lay amid the pile of victims on the FOB.
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Sena Men Allegedly Assault Senior Doctor For Marking Mumbai Stampede Victims
A group of Shiv Sena workers barged in to Mumbai's KEM Hospital on Saturday and allegedly assaulted a senior doctor formarking of bodies of the Elphinstone Road station stampede victims, police said. They overpowered him and tried to scribble on his forehead last evening, a senior police officer said.
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Not Excuse But Inherited Big Problems, Says Railways Minister: 10 Facts
Targeted for Friday's stampede in Mumbai that killed 23, Railways Minister Piyush Goyal fought off the perception that the government didn't want to invest in safety of suburban commuters but found money for the bullet train. After spending nine hours at meetings, closeted with top bureaucrats, Mr Goyal gave officials powers to spend on safety-rela...
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'His Face Was Completely Crushed,' Says Family Of Mumbai Stampede's Youngest Victim
Akash Parab has no knowledge of his 11-year-old brother Rohit's demise. Rohit is the youngest victim of the Elphinstone Road station stampede that killed 23 and injured more than 30. As Akash, 19, lay in ward number 20A of Mumbai's KEM hospital, his wounds, after being trampled over in the stampede yesterday, are raw and visible. His family doesn't...
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'It's A Scientific Method,' Clarifies Mumbai Hospital On Marking Stampede Victims
When the anxious relatives reached Mumbai's KEM hospital, they were appalled to see numbers scribbled on the foreheads of the Elphinstone Road station stampede victims. Their photographs were also put up on a flex board by the hospital.
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Like Notes Ban, Bullet Train Will Kill Everything: P Chidambaram's Jibe At PM Modi
The day after 22 commuters died in a stampede at Mumbai's Elphinstone station bridge, Congress leader P Chidambaram scaled up the attack on the bullet train project, saying the high-speed train would, like demonetisation, "kill everything else including safety".
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'Population Jumped, Infrastructure Unchanged', Mumbai's Struggle For Survival
The tragedy that struck the 'city of dreams' yesterday, extinguished at least 22 lives on a narrow, rickety foot overbridge linking Parel and Elphinstone Road stations.
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Shiv Sena Says Mumbai Stampede Is 'Massacre'
The Shiv Sena today termed the stampede in which 22 railway commuters were killed as a "public massacre".
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Congress President Sonia Gandhi Calls Mumbai Stampede Man-Made Disaster
Congress President Sonia Gandhi today expressed shock and anguish over the death of 22 persons in a stampede in Mumbai and said the "man-made" disaster could have been avoided by taking care of the safety aspect.
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Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Elphinstone Station Renamed
The famed Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus and headquarters of the Central Railway has been renamed by adding 'Maharaj', while Western Railway's Elphinstone Road station has been rechristened as 'Prabhadevi' station, an official said today.
