Jamshedpur, July 19 (IANS) A major rail accident was averted on Sunday morning in Jharkhand’s East Singhbhum district when an overhead electric wire snapped and fell onto the roof of the Tata-Howrah Steel Express while it was crossing a railway bridge over the Subarnarekha River, officials said.The incident brought the train to a halt midway on the bridge, disrupting rail traffic on the Tata-Howrah section of the Indian Railways. No casualties were reported due to the incident. According to rail…
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Kolkata, July 17 (IANS) A man, masquerading as a Travelling Ticket Examiner (TTE) was apprehended at the Rampurhat railway station in West Bengal’s Birbhum by the Railway Protection Force (RPF) in the early hours of Wednesday. The Eastern Railway (ER) officials are now investigating whether he was part of a larger racket involved in swindling passengers, while giving the Railways a bad name.An Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) of the RPF was patrolling Platform 1 of the Rampurhat station around 3:15…
Kolkata, July 15 (IANS) Like other railway zones in the country, Eastern Railway (ER) is grappling with the problem of trespassing on tracks. Latest figures compiled by the Railway Protection Force (RPF) from Station Superintendents reveal that 2,394 cases of trespassing occurred in 2025. These left 2,038 people dead and 359 injured.The first six months of 2026 were equally bad. Till June 30, ER witnessed 1,144 cases of track trespassing, resulting in 1,001 deaths and 147 injuries.”The data reve…
Kolkata, July 14 (IANS) Railway Police arrested a person with multiple silver bars weighing a total of 6.5 kg from Howrah Metro Station, said a senior police officer on Tuesday. An official said that the silver bars were recovered from the passenger’s bag during baggage scanning. “The estimated market value of the silver is around Rs 14 lakh,” he said.The incident took place at around 1 pm. The police were informed immediately. Later, the recovered silver and the accused were handed over to the …
New Delhi/Kolkata, July 5 (IANS) In a crackdown against narcotics supply networks, the DRI seized 1.11 lakh of Codeine-based cough syrup bottles and arrest of one person in two separate operations conducted in Tripura and West Bengal, an official said on Sunday.The officers of Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) intercepted a consignment being transported in the parcel van of a train bound for Agartala on July 2 and seized it under the provisions of the NDPS Act, 1985, the official said in…
Guwahati, July 5 (IANS) The Railway Protection Force (RPF) of the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) has intensified its crackdown on crime and unlawful activities, while stepping up efforts to prevent human trafficking across its jurisdiction, officials said on Sunday. NFR’s Chief Public Relations Officer (CPRO) Kapinjal Kishore Sharma said that the RPF personnel during the period of June 25 to 30 conducted a series of successful operations at various railway stations and aboard trains, resulting…
Agartala, July 3 (IANS) Tripura Police are firmly committed to eliminating the drug menace and making the state drug-free, senior officials said on Friday, after the recovery of a huge consignment of banned cough syrups worth over Rs 2.36 crore from the Deoghar Express at Agartala Railway Station after the train arrived from Bihar. Inspector General of Police (Intelligence and Security) Krishnendu Chakraborty, Inspector General of Police (Law and Order) Manchak Ipper, along with other senior pol…
Imphal, July 2 (IANS) The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Thursday emphasised that robust inter-agency coordination remains the cornerstone of India’s efforts to combat drug trafficking and realise the vision of a ‘Drug-Free India’. To further strengthen coordination among enforcement agencies, the NCB held the quarterly state-level Joint Coordination Committee (JCC) meeting for Manipur at the state Police Headquarters in Imphal on Thursday.According to a post on the NCB’s official X handle, t…
Agartala, July 2 (IANS) The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) officials on Thursday seized a huge consignment of banned cough syrup worth over Rs 6.54 crore from a goods train at the Agartala Railway Station after it arrived from Bihar, officials said. The seizure of 55,626 bottles (100 ml each) of Eskuf Cough Syrup and Fairdyl Cough Syrup, both of which are often abused as narcotic substances, is the second-largest recovery of such an illegal consignment from a goods train in Tripura af…
Kolkata, July 1 (IANS) Amateur radio operators (HAMs) are finding it difficult to reunite a mentally challenged woman from West Bengal, whom they traced to Mumbai, with her family. The woman, mother of a 20-year-old son and a 16-year-old daughter, allegedly lost her mental balance after facing torture from her husband, relatives said.Thereafter, she started straying from home.”About six years ago, she was traced to Gujarat and brought back to her matrimonial home in Gangarampur, Uluberia, in the…