A Railway Board member had earlier said that the loco pilot of the Coromandel Express reported seeing a green light minutes before the Odisha train accident. The Government Railway Police have registered an FIR in the case
The political blame game over the Odisha train accident has begun but Union Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has steered clear. He is on Ground Zero doing the hard work even as Opposition leaders have called for his resignation
Five wagons of a goods train of a private company carrying limestone derailed in Odisha’s Bargarh district. No casualty or injury has been reported so far.
Even as visuals of the tragic Odisha train accident started circulating online, certain social media users tried to give the accident a communal spin by claiming that a ‘mosque’ was located near the accident spot.
The Odisha government has shifted the bodies of victims of the tragic train accident in Balasore to Bhubaneswar for better preservation, and to facilitate the identification of the deceased by their kin.