RAILWAYS

The overhead equipment (OHE) on the Delhi-Howrah train line collapsed when 15658 Brahmaputra Mail collided with a bull on July 30. Rail traffic was interrupted for almost 10 hours. Following the event, all trains upline were halted, and a railway team restored the line from Prayagraj to the incident site. Brahmaputra Mail engine had also experienced some mechanical difficulties, although no one was injured as a result of the event.

Over the last five years, free rail travel for current and retired Lok Sabha members have cost the treasury Rs 62 crore. According to reports under Right to Information Act, this includes approximately Rs 2.5 crore in the pandemic-hit 2020-21 fiscal year. While MPs are permitted to travel for free in first class air-conditioned or executive class on trains, their spouses are also permitted to do so under certain restrictions.

Bengaluru's Sir M Visvesvaraya Railway Terminal was inaugurated on June 6. The first train to operate at the station was Ernakulam Tri-Weekly Express. The air-conditioned SMV Railway Terminal, which is located between Banaswadi and Baiyyappanahalli in the city, is a Rs 314 crore project and the third main terminal after Bengaluru City Railway Station and Yashwanthpur Railway Station. It contains solar panels on the roof and a rain harvesting… read-more

During the Railway Protection Force's pan-India Operation "Mahila Suraksha," which took place between May 3 and 31, 150 girls and women were saved from becoming victims of human trafficking. A total of 7000 people were detained for illegally traveling in women's coaches. RPF members risked their lives to rescue ten ladies who had slipped while boarding/deboarding the moving train and were in danger of being run over by the train. 

A crude bomb was discovered on the railway tracks in Gaya district of Bihar. "Railway operations were disrupted for two hours after a crude bomb was found on the railway track near Guraru railway station. It is within 100 meters range of the railway station," stated the Superintendent. Notably, the incident came a day after Naxals set a poclain machine on fire in Gaya.