Kolkata Midnapore Train Accident

A total of two people were killed and one was critically injured after being hit by a local train while clicking selfies near a railway bridge over the Cossye river in Midnapore on Saturday.

Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee, who has rushed to the site where the Mumbai-bound Gyaneshwari Express first derailed and then was hit by a goods train, has said the Railways was on red alert and there had been patrolling on the tracks just an hour before the incident happened. Mamata said the accident was caused by a blast. But there is stil...

At least sixty five passengers were killed and 200 injured when 13 coaches of a Mumbai-bound express train derailed in West Midnapore district early today after Maoists sabotaged the train tracks. Five of these coaches were also hit by a speeding goods train.The incident occurred at 1:30 am when the Howrah-Kurla Lokmanya Tilak Gyaneshwari Super Del...

A total of two people were killed and one was critically injured after being hit by a local train while clicking selfies near a railway bridge over the Cossye river in Midnapore on Saturday.

Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee, who has rushed to the site where the Mumbai-bound Gyaneshwari Express first derailed and then was hit by a goods train, has said the Railways was on red alert and there had been patrolling on the tracks just an hour before the incident happened. Mamata said the accident was caused by a blast. But there is stil...

At least sixty five passengers were killed and 200 injured when 13 coaches of a Mumbai-bound express train derailed in West Midnapore district early today after Maoists sabotaged the train tracks. Five of these coaches were also hit by a speeding goods train.The incident occurred at 1:30 am when the Howrah-Kurla Lokmanya Tilak Gyaneshwari Super Del...