YouTuber arrested for dangerous railway track stunt
Viral videos on X had shown a person placing various kinds of objects on railway tracks, prompting an urgent investigation, the Ministry of Railways said on Friday.
Viral videos on X had shown a person placing various kinds of objects on railway tracks, prompting an urgent investigation, the Ministry of Railways said on Friday.
In what comes as a shocking sight, railway tracks are being used by local residents in suburban pockets to dry clothes.
The members of the All Bengal Citizens Forum on Sunday observed a symbolic daylong satyagraha to press for a subway at the Konnagar railway station at the earliest.
The freight corridor between Son Nagar in Bihar to Patratu in Jharkhand passes through the Palamu Tiger Reserve. Besides, a new railway track of 11 kilometers is also proposed.
Talking to The Statesman, Trinamul Congress North 24- Parganas district president, Jyotipriyo Mullick, alleged “The MP, MLA and the civic body chairman, are quite apparently against restoring peace in the area. Today, the municipality was also attacked and vandalised.”
Around two feet of the railway track was damaged and the signalling system stopped functioning.
After the completion of electrification on 20,000 km of tracks, about 78 per cent of the railway network would have been electrified, he said.
An erroneous announcement about the arrival of a Sealdah-bound train sparked an agitation among local passengers at Sodepur station on Saturday morning.
The East Coast Railway (ECoR) has installed two bottle recycle machines at Puri railway station to crush the plastic bottles…
The cameras roll when a flower-bedecked locomotive hauls a new train out of a station after it is flagged off…
