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Amritsar Train Tragedy: Family of 13-year-old victim holds protest
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
Amritsar (Punjab) [India] October 20 (ANI): Distraught family of a 13-year-old, who died in the Amritsar train accident, staged a protest at the Amritsar-Jalandhar highway on Saturday.
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Artist playing Ravan among victims of Amritsar train tragedy
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
Amritsar (Punjab) [India], Oct 20 (ANI): Dalbir Singh, the artist who played the role of Ravan at the tragedy-stricken Ramleela also passed away after a train plowed into a crowd that had spilled over to a railway track to watch Dussehra fireworks here.
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Amritsar Train Tragedy: Avoid mudslinging, Sidhu urges political parties
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
Amritsar (Punjab) [India], Oct 20 (ANI): Expressing grief over the loss of life caused after a train mowed down scores of people here, Punjab Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu on Saturday urged all political parties to avoid indulging in mudslinging.
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Amritsar: Nearly 100 affected, claims Civil Hospital Emergency Medical Off
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
Amritsar (Punjab) [India], Oct 20 (India): Nearly 100 people have been affected by the tragedy, where a crowd of Dussehra revellers spilled onto the railway track was run over by a train here, claimed Emergency Medical Officer at Civil Hospital.
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Wrong to hold Railways responsible for Amritsar tragedy: Ashwani Lohani
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
Amritsar (Punjab) [India], Oct 20 (ANI): Hours after the Amritsar train accident, Railway Board Chairman Ashwani Lohani on Saturday said it would be wrong to say that the Railways is responsible for the tragic incident, adding that people need to be more alert.
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Amritsar train tragedy: Death toll mounts to 60
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
Amritsar (Punjab) [India], Oct 20 (ANI): At least 60 people have been died while 51 others have sustained injuries in the train mishap which took place earlier, Chief Medical Officer of Civil Hospital in Amritsar, where those injured are undergoing treatment, told ANI on Saturday.
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Punjab: Police thwarts Referendum 2020 campaign, arrests 2 people
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
Amritsar (Punjab) [India], Oct 19 (ANI): The Punjab Police on Friday arrested two members of a Khalistani module, allegedly engaged in propagating the Khalistan Referendum 2020 campaign by putting up banners and posters at public places here.
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People politicising Amritsar train mishap should be ashamed: Navjot Kaur S
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
Amritsar (Punjab) [India], Oct. 19 (ANI): Congress leader and Punjab Cabinet minister Navjot Singh Sidhu's wife Navjot Kaur Sidhu on Friday slammed people "politicising" the Amritsar train mishap.
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Amritsar Tragedy: Here are helpline numbers
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
Amritsar (Punjab) [India], Oct 19 (ANI): Indian Railways have issued helpline numbers after the Amritsar Dussehra tragedy.
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Train accident: Dussehra celebrations organised without permission, claim
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
Amritsar (Punjab) [India], Oct 19 (ANI): Eyewitnesses at the train accident site, where more than 50 people are feared dead, claimed that the Dussehra celebrations were organised without permission.
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Amritsar train mishap: Punjab CM orders probe, announces ex-gratia
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
Amritsar (Punjab) [India], Oct 19 (ANI): Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Friday ordered an inquiry into the tragic train accident in Amritsar in which more than 50 people are feared dead.
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Railway Minister condoles loss of lives in Amritsar train accident
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
Amritsar (Punjab) [India], Oct 19 (ANI): Expressing grief over the Amritsar train tragedy, Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday said that Railways is conducting immediate relief and rescue operations.
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