"Frontal collisions between trains, derailment of compartments, helpless passengers trapped in coaches and succumbing to fate: this is becoming a most unfortunate repetitive trope!!," Mamata added.
PM Narendra Modi on Sunday called upon Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw and took stock of the situation in the wake of the train derailment between Alamanda and Kantakapalle section in Andhra Pradesh.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday called upon Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw and took stock of the situation in the wake of the train derailment between Alamanda and Kantakapalle section in Andhra Pradesh.
Three empty coaches of a suburban Electricity Multiple Unit (EMU) train derailed near Avadi railway station in Tamil Nadu's Chennai on Tuesday morning, hampering the movement of nearly a dozen trains.
The death toll from the collision between a passenger train and a rear-ended goods train in Bhairab upazila at Kishoreganj in Bangladesh rose to 17, Dhaka Tribune reported.
Saamana, the official mouthpiece of the Shiv Sena (UBT), raised questions on the functioning of the Indian Railways and passenger safety after 21 coaches of the North-East Express derailed in Bihar's Buxar district on Wednesday night, leaving four passengers dead and over 30 injured.
In his letter, the Rajya Sabha MP said that the government introducing luxury trains in a frenzy while the infrastructure for trains for common people is being sorely forsaken.
According to officials with Lumding railway division of North East Frontier Railway, the special train departed from Danapur station at 6:00 am with 1006 passengers on board.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed his condolences to the people who lost their lives in the tragic train derailment incident in Bihar's Buxar district on Wednesday night.
BJP state president Samrat Chaudhary on Thursday expressed grief over the loss of lives in the derailment of 21 coaches of the North East Express in the Buxar district on Wednesday night.