news entry 67482 by Amita- Howrah (West Bengal), Mar 31: Five persons, including two women, were today knocked down and killed by a train when they were crossing the tracks at Santragachi railway station in Howrah district, The speeding Ranchi-Howrah Intercity Express knocked down the five people when they were crossing the tracks instead of using the overbridge at about 2:30 PM, South Eastern Railway sources said. All... more...
the five died on the spot, they said. Railway Minister Mukul Roy announced Rs two lakh as ex-gratia to the families of the victims, a South Eastern Railway spokesman said.
Well, it looks to b an attractive insurance scheme 4 those who want to commit suicide. Be victims of railway knockdowns ---- heirs get compensation. Such accident (tresspasing) cases where FOBs are there shouldnt b compensated by railways.
जान की परवाह किए बिना स्टेशन के पास दिनदहाड़े मालगाड़ी से कोयला की चोरी जान की परवाह किए बिना स्टेशन के पास दिनदहाड़े मालगाड़ी से कोयला की चोरी चाकुलिया...
झारखंड प्रदेश अध्यक्ष गौतम पांडेय ने केंद्रीय रेल मंत्री को पत्र भेजकर कोडरमा जंक्शन से सूरत के लिए सीधी रेल सेवा शुरू करने की मांग की है। उन्होंने कहा कि गिरिडीह, हजारीबाग और कोडरमा के हजारों मजदूर... जमुआ,...
पूर्व मध्य रेल के अपर मंडल रेल प्रबंधक विनीत कुमार ने बरकाकाना स्टेशन का निरीक्षण किया। उन्होंने लोको रनिंग रूम की साफ-सफाई और रखरखाव की जांच की और अधिकारियों को दिशा-निर्देश दिए। इस अवसर पर कई वरिष्ठ... बरकाकाना,...
In response to past confusions with Train/Station updates and resulting fights and controversies, the following clear and objective guidelines are being issued, with no room for any arguments or debates about validity. Also, included, some other changes with respect to Ratings.
1. All Red Ratings will require further explanation. Red Ratings won't...
As announced previously, there are a few changes coming to IRI user accounts, based on past practices.
1. As before, you will be able to quickly DELETE your IRI User account at ANY time. However, the menu option for this was hidden in the profile page, and could not easily be located....
A new feature will be released soon, whereby you can follow blogs tagged with specific Trains & Stations. If you have already posted blogs tagged with some Train/Station, then you will be set to automatically follow that Train/Station. Thereafter, any future news/blogs tagged with those Trains/Stations will be marked to your...
These days, every other day, we are getting requests from members to allow email login to their FB-based IRI account. 10 years ago, we had given the option for users to login through FaceBook - in retrospect, this was a mistake. These days, apparently, users are quitting FaceBook in droves because...
Followup to: Fmt Changes
The new version of FmT 2.0 will soon be here - in about 2 weeks. As detailed in the previous announcement, many of the old FmT features like Train TT, Speedometer, Geo Location, etc. will be REMOVED. It will be a bare-bones simple app, focused on trip blogging.
It...
There are some changes coming to FMT. Many of the features of FMT, like station arrival, TT, speed, geo, passing times, station time, etc. are ALREADY available in OTHER railway apps. So all of these features will be REMOVED.
We'll have ONLY BLOGGING - quick upload of pics/videos/audio, etc. You may attach...
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