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The Kakori Train robbery (prapt of Kakori conspiracy) was a train robbery that took place at Kakori, a village near Lucknow, [1] on 9 August 1925, [2] during the Indian independence movement against the British rule in India. It was organized by the Indian revolutionaries of Hindustan Republican Association (HRA). Photo of German-made Mauser ...
Bishnu Shrestha (born 1975) is a Nepalese–Gurkha soldier in the Indian Army (7th battalion the 8th Gorkha Rifles) and recipient of the Sena Medal for bravery, [1] [2] and the Uttam Jeevan Raksha Padak medal, [3] [4] both awarded for his gallant conduct during an armed train robbery.
The Indian media dubbed it "the great train robbery". [27] Eight arrests were made in 2018 in connection with the heist. [ 29 ] [ 30 ] Since 2023, several instances of armed dacoits boarding trains and robbing money, mobile phones, and valuables from passengers have been reported aboard Indian passenger trains.
Two passenger trains derailed in India on Friday, killing at least 50 people and trapping hundreds of others inside more than a dozen damaged coaches, officials said. About 400 people were injured ...
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]
A passenger train derailed on Thursday in northern India, killing at least two passengers and injuring 20 others, a railroad official said. Naveen Kumar, a state relief commissioner, said dozens ...
Kakori is a town and a nagar panchayat in Lucknow district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, [1] 19 km North of Lucknow city centre. Kakori was a centre for Urdu poetry, literature and the Qadiriya Qalandari Sufi order. On 9 August 1925, Indian revolutionaries robbed a train of government funds in Kakori, an incident known as the Kakori ...
On 9 August 1925, the station came into light of the world history when Indian revolutionary Ram Prasad Bismil, Ashfaqulla Khan, Rajendra Lahiri, Chandrashekhar Azad, Sachindra Bakshi, Keshab Chakravarty, Manmathnath Gupta, Murari Lal Gupta (fake name of Murari Lal Khanna), Mukundi Lal (Mukundi Lal Gupta) and Banwari Lal snatched the government's treasury from a train.