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The 2023 Odisha train collision is one of the deadliest rail accidents with 296 casualties. Indian Railways operates India's railway system and comes under the purview of the Ministry of Railways of Government of India. As of 2023, it maintains over 108,706 km (67,547 mi) of tracks and operates over 13,000 trains daily. [1]
Members of the National Disaster Response Force on the site. Indian Railways published the reservation charts for both the passenger trains on its website. [‡ 1] [‡ 2] The railways and the governments of Odisha, West Bengal and Tamil Nadu issued helpline numbers.
The Indian Railways constituted a high level committee for inquiry into the accident and the Government of India ordered the National Investigation Agency to investigate if the accident was caused due to sabotage. [1] [2] The Commissioner of Railway Safety began the investigation on 12 October. [5]
India has launched a $30m (£24bn) programme to modernise its railways in recent years but this has been marred by a series of accidents, including a major three-train crash in 2023 in the state ...
FACTBOX - India’s deadliest rail accidents. 16:00, Maryam Zakir-Hussain. Here are details of some of the deadliest rail accidents in recent decades in India, where a railway official said at ...
At least 288 people have been killed in a train accident in eastern India, a railway official has said. Rescuers find no more survivors. Saturday 3 June 2023 14:38, Maryam Zakir-Hussain.
8 May – India – Aurangabad railway accident: A goods train ran over and killed 16 migrant labourers who were walking to their homes in Madhya Pradesh and slept on the railway tracks, believing that trains would not be running (only passenger trains were stopped, while goods railway services continued to function) due to a nationwide ...
In August 1995, two trains collided near New Delhi, killing 358 people in one of the worst train accidents in India in decades. In 2016, a passenger train slid off the tracks between the cities of ...