Breaking News HIGHLIGHTS: Rescue Operation Of Derailed Bikaner-Guwahati Express Completed, Informs NFR
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Guwahati, Jan 13 (PTI) Rescue operation of the derailed Bikaner-Guwahati Express train, which met with an accident naer Maynaguri in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district on Thursday evening, has been completed, a Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) statement said here.
Five persons have died so far and more than 45 injured in the train disaster.
The NFR statement said there were about 1053 passengers onboard at the time of derailment and a special train to ferry the stranded passengers has left for the accident site from New Jalpaiguri at 7.05 pm, the statement said.
Assam special DGP (Law and Order) G P Singh said in a tweet that the relief train with stranded passengers has left the accident site at 9.30 pm and is expected to reach Guwahati around 2 am on January 14.
All stranded passengers have been provided with drinking water and snacks from the pantry car of the train.
Rescue operation has already been completed, the NFR statement said though it did not mention details on casualties and injuries in the mishap.
Senior railway officials along with accident relief train from New Jalpaiguri and New Alipurduar rushed to the site on receipt of information and started the relief and rescue operation.
The NFR general manager has left by a train from Guwahati for the accident site, the statement added.
Nine trains have been diverted through alternative routes following the accident, which include Guwahati-Howrah Saraighat Express, Kamakhya-Anand Vihar Express, New Delhi-Agartala Tejas Rajdhani Express and Trivandrum-Silchar Express.
The Railways have announced ex-gratia of Rs five lakh to the next of kin of each of those killed in the accident, Rs one lakh to the seriously injured and Rs 25,000 for passengers with simple injury, the statement said.
The NFR has already activated several helpline numbers for information about the incident, including at Guwahati (03612731622), Katiahar (06452230692), New Jalpaiguri (9002041951) and Alipurduar (03564234206).
The 15633 Bikaner-Guwahati Express had left Bikaner at 1.45 am on Wednesday and derailed near New Domohani station under Alipurduar Dvision of NFR at around 5 pm on Thursday.
Ludhiana, Jan 12 (PTI) The Sanyukt Samaj Morcha, a political front launched by various farmer bodies for fighting the February 14 Punjab assembly polls, on Wednesday released its first list of 10 candidates.
The list included the names of farmer leader Balbir Singh Rajewal as the outfit's candidate for the Samrala assembly seat. Rajewal is leading the SSM.
The list revealed that farmer leader Prem Singh Bhangu will fight from Ghanaur, Harjinder Singh Tanda from Khadoor Sahib, Ravneet Singh Brar from Mohali and Dr Sukhmandeep Singh from Tarn Taran.
Additionally, Rajesh Kumar will fight from Kartarpur, Ajay Kumar from Phillaur, Ramandeep Singh from Jaiton, Balraj Singh from Qadian and Dr Navdeep Singh from Moga, it said.
While ruling out any alliance with the Aam Aadmi Party a few days back, Rajewal had said they would announce their first list of candidates.
Various Punjab farmer bodies which had taken part in the stir against the Centre's now-repealed farm laws had launched their political front last month and announced to contest the state assembly polls.
Voting for Punjab will be held on February 14 and votes will be counted on March 10.
Death toll in Bikaner-Guwahati train accident goes up to five, 45 injured: PTI reported an official as stating.
Guwahati-Bikaner Express derailment: Ex gratia relief of Rs 5 lakhs for deceased, Rs 1 lakh for severely injured, and Rs 25,000 for those with minor injuries, ANI reported Indian Railways as announcing.
High-level Railway Safety inquiry ordered in the Guwahati-Bikaner Express 15633 derailment; Railway Helpline numbers - 03612731622, 03612731623, ANI reported Indian Railways as stating.
Not a single day passes when a BJP leader does not leave the party. Take UP, for example, 13 MLAs are leaving BJP to join another party. I have come to know that 4 BJP MLAs are leaving it today itself, says NCP chief Sharad Pawar.
Another BJP MLA Dharam Singh Saini Resigns. He is the third minister to resign in the day.
India, UK launch negotiations for the free trade agreement. "We aim for this to be a future-facing deal, accelerating the business that we do together in cutting-edge sectors that are reshaping the global economy," says UK Secy of State for Int'l Trade Anne-Marie Trevelyan.
Amid the spur of resignations from BJP MLAs a few weeks before the UP Assembly elections, another MLA Vinay Shakya has quit the party. "Swami Prasad Maurya is the voice of the downtrodden and he is our leader. I am with him," Shakya wrote in his resignation letter to the party. This morning, BJP MLA Mukesh Verma had also quit the party. On Wednesday Swami Prasad Maurya had also said that he will quit the party on January 14.
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Thursday announced two candidates, including former Congressman Imran Masood's brother, for western Uttar Pradesh in the upcoming polls.
In a tweet, the BSP chief announced Salman Sayeed as the party's candidate from Charthawal and Noman Masood from Gangoh Assembly constituencies.
"Salman Sayeed, son of former Uttar Pradesh home minister Saiduzzaman, met the BSP president late on January 12 and joined the BSP after quitting the Congress. Sayeed has been fielded by the BSP as its candidate from Charthawal," Mayawati tweeted in Hindi.
In a related tweet, she wrote, "Noman Masood, nephew of former union minister Rashid Masood and brother of Imran Masood also joined the BSP yesterday (Wednesday) leaving the Lok Dal. The BSP chief has made him the candidate of her party from Gangoh Assembly seat."
Imran Masood had recently quit the Congress and joined the Samajwadi Party.
BJP MLA from Uttar Pradesh, Mukesh Verma resigned ahead of UP Assembly polls 2022. Verma represents the Firozabad, Ambedkar Nagar constituency. The resignation has come amid the ongoing meeting of BJP CEC to finalise the candidates for UP assembly elections.
BJP's Central Election Committee (CEC) meeting will start at the party headquarters in Delhi shortly to finalise the party candidates for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections. PM Narendra Modi will also join the meeting reported news agency ANI.
The JeM terrorist killed in the Kulgam encounter has been identified as Babar, a Pakistani national active in Shopian & Kulgam since 2018. One AK rifle, one pistol, and two grenades have been recovered, says Inspector General of Police (Kashmir) Vijay Kumar
“We have almost arrived at an agreement in these six areas inspected by the regional committees. Both the Chief Ministers have directed the respective governments to submit the detailed reports,” Prestone Tynsong, Meghalaya’s Deputy CM said.
“Both the CMs will hold a final round of talks before meeting the Union Home Minister. Hopefully, the stakeholders of both the States will see a final agreement before January 21,” he added.
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In a major jolt to the ruling BJP in the Uttar Pradesh state, two of their senior OBC ministers have resigned from the party and have joined Akhilesh Yadav's Samajwadi Party. Uttar Pradesh minister Dara Singh Chauhan on Wednesday resigned from Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath-led Cabinet. Chauhan, who is the second minister to quit the cabinet and the BJP ahead of the assembly polls next month, joined the Samajwadi Party.
The politicians are changing sides just before the elections in UP as even Congress and SP MLAs in the state switched sides just before the first phase of the elections. Congress MLA Naresh Saini and Samajwadi Party legislator Hari Om Yadav joined the BJP on Wednesday.
In Goa, former BJP leader Michael Lobo along with his wife Delilah on Tuesday joined Congress, a day after resigning from the Goa cabinet and quitting the saffron party.
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) on Wednesday approved the appointment of S Somanath to the post of Secretary, Department of Space and Chairman, ISRO for a combined tenure of three years.
In other news, Meghalaya's deputy CM says that an agreement has almost been reached with Assam on the border issue. "More or less we're almost about to reach agreement in areas that we've already inspected. Now again both CMs have directed to bring out detailed reports& thereafter one more meeting will be held between two CMs," said Meghalaya's Dy CM Prestone Tynsong on border dispute with Assam.
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