An official of the NFR said that after partial repair of the damaged railway track, train services resumed in Lumding-Badarpur Hill Section under Southern Assam’s Dima Hasao district on November 3 but fully loaded and normal train services could not be resumed.
When the video went viral on social media, the railway department came on alert mode. An FIR was registered against the youth in Nawabganj police station. The police arrested him on Thursday.
Work on installation of anti-collision technical armor is being carried out at a fast pace.
The deceased youngsters have been identified as Vansh Sharma, 23, a 3rd year BTech student, and Monu, 20, a salesman.
A scrap scam case of a missing railway track came to the fore in Samastipur Railway Division of Bihar.
At 8 am, the patrolling staff on the track informed the Railway authorities about the fracture in the track and fringe, CPRO said, adding some packets of explosives were also found there.
"The sample that was found near the railway track matches the one we have found in the house. A case has been registered under the Explosive Act and the probe will go to find out if there was anything that was done wrongly," said George.
While the men were returning home along the rail bridge on Tangal river suddenly a running engine which was coming from Radhikapur which ran them over; resulting in the loss of two lives.
Three years ago, the irrigation department and the zilla parishad together had planted caged boulder stone blocks to create an artificial wall along the riverbank but Amphan destabilised that wall this year. House of one Suraj Sheikh is located barely 200 metres away from the river now.
Railways need to strengthen track safety measures as an audit has revealed several lapses in maintenance plans, inspection schedules and…
