Gyaneshwari Express

• Gyaneshwari Express disaster: Key suspect killed in encounter

  Top Maoist leader and a key suspect in the Gyaneshwari Express train disaster, Umakanto Mahato, has been killed by joint forces in West Bengal's Jhargram district. (In pics: Gyaneshwari Express derails, hit by goods train)Mahato was killed in an overnight encounter at Mohanpur forest, about 30 km from Jhargram.He was a leader of Maoist-backed Peopl...

• Jhargram train attack: PCPA leader Sameer Mahato arrested

  The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has arrested People's Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA) leader Sameer Mahato in connection with last month's Jhargram train attack. He will be produced in court today.At least 148 passengers were killed and 200 injured when 13 coaches of Mumbai-bound Gyaneshwari Express derailed in near Jhargram ...

• Gyaneshwari train attack: Bengal govt agrees to CBI inquiry

  It's what Mamata Banerjee has been demanding. Sources say the West Bengal government has agreed to a CBI investigation into last week's train accident in which close to 150 people were killed in Midnapore when a train headed to Mumbai derailed.

• Bengal train tragedy: Mamata insists on CBI inquiry

  A day after the Bengal government struck it down, Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee insisted on a CBI inquiry for a fair probe into the West Midnapore train tragedy. Calling the Gyaneshwari train derailment a heinous and brutal murder, Mamata said that whosoever is behind the train crash should be punished."This is our government. We will decide wha...

• Train attack: It wasn't us, say Maoists

  Both the Home Ministry and the West Bengal police have blamed the Maoists for the train disaster in Midnapore. The Maoists have denied any role in the tragic incident.

• No CBI inquiry into train attack, says Bengal govt

  It's a move that could become the latest stress test of the tense relationship between the Congress and key ally, Mamata Banerjee. At a press conference in Delhi, Home Minister P Chidambaram said that early leads suggest the Maoists were behind Friday's train tragedy in which more than 140 people were killed after a train derailed in the Midnapore ...

• Train disaster: Bengal govt rules out CBI inquiry

  In a snub to Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee's demand, the West Bengal government on Monday ruled out a CBI inquiry into the May 28 Gyaneshwari Express disaster in West Midnapore district which claimed 148 lives.

• Chidambaram: CPI-Maoist or front group behind train attack

  Home Minister P Chidambaram has said that "the needle of suspicion in the attack on the Gyaneshwari Express in West Bengal points to the CPI-Maoists or a front organization for the CPI-Maoists."Last week, more than 140 passengers were killed in West Midnapore when the Gyaneshwari Express headed to Mumbai derailed about 135 kms from Kolkata. The Gya...

• Bengal train mishap: Honeymoon couple still missing

  A young couple from Nagpur, who were returning by the ill-fated Gyaneshwari Express after a honeymoon vacation to Darjeeling, are yet to be traced.Amit Gajbhiye, an employee at a private firm, and his wife Anita, a school teacher, were among the passengers who boarded the Kurla-bound train at Howrah station.Both had spoken to their parents before l...

• Bengal train derailment: Over 148 dead, more bodies trapped

  The toll in the Mumbai-bound Gyaneshwari Express derailment rose to over 148 today as more bodies were pulled out from the wreckage of the mangled coaches.