Mangaluru: More than two years after Indian Railways promised that it would begin operating a day train from the coastal city to Bengaluru, the initiative is likely to take off on March 1, this year. As per sources, the train had been sanctioned during the interim railway budget presented in 2014. Accordingly, the train was […]

Mangaluru: One person died after a train hit him while crossing the railway track at Thokkottu over bridge on Thursday. Sanjeev T M (66) is the deceased person. He was running a vegetable shop near Raksha Clinic under the over bridge. Basically Sanjeev is from Uppal, Kerala and he was staying in a rented house at […]

Kundapur: A 28-year-old man died after train hit him at Kanyana in Hattiangady on Wednesday. Raghavendra Poojary (28) of Rajadi near Tallur is the deceased person. He was returning home from the market. He was an employee of a hotel at Raichur and just a week ago he had come back to the town. While […]

Kasargod: Police have initiated their investigation the miscreants attempt to overturn the train at Mogral Puttur. District Superintendent of Police Thomson Jose, SI Ranjith Raveendran and their team visited the spot on Monday. Some miscreants had removed the elastic railway clip to overturn the train on July 22. Some time before the train about to […]

Thane: At least 6 passengers, including a woman, were killed when a fire engulfed the speeding Mumbai-Dehradun Express near Dahanu town in Maharashtra’s Thane district early Wednesday, officials said. The fire is believed to have erupted in one bogie and quickly spread to two other bogies, catching the passengers in their sleep around 2.30 am […]

Bangalore: Twenty-six victims of the Bangalore-Nanded Express fire tragedy were asphyxiated in the locked AC compartment, a preliminary inquiry has indicated. Investigating authorities have not ruled out sabotage as well. The investigation by experts from an Andhra Pradesh forensic team, railway police and South Western Railway officials revealed that the passengers were first choked by […]

Udupi: Leela (60), Sudha (50) and Ramanand Rao (68) died,  Natesh, Vijitha and Dhanushree were burnt and hospitalized for injuries, Vivek and  Umesh escaped un hurt when a bogie of Bangalore-Nanded express caught fire at Ananthpur on way to Mantralaya in  Adonis district of Andhra Pradesh. The 3 dead passengers were all from Udupi but […]

Bangalore : The rear of the Hazrat Nizamuddin-Bangalore City Rajdhani Express derailed and rammed into the compound of the Railway quarters while the loco pilot was reversing the train at the City Railway Station yard around 3 pm on Sunday. However, no one was injured. The Rajdhani Express had arrived at the station on Sunday […]

Mangalore : There was tension at the Mangalore junction railway station   on October 7, Monday night  when  a passenger travelling in the Nizamuddin-Ernakulam train died after a sudden sickness. The passenger named Chandran Pillai (55) had fallen ill when the train reached Madagaon and the appeal of the co-passengers with the railway authorities for medical […]

Mangalore : In a significant judgement the fourth additional district and sessions court on September 21, Saturday imposed life imprisonment  on two persons convicted of raping a 15 year old girl from Odisha at Mangalore Central Railway Station. The incident had taken place on July 14,2010. Judge B.K. Naik who pronounced the judgement also slapped […]