Ahead of the upcoming monsoon season, the Uttar Pradesh government on the directions of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is close to completing all the necessary preparations to deal with floods, an official statement said on Tuesday.
Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a case on request of Ministry of Railways, consent of Odisha Government and further orders from DoPT(Government of India) relating to train accident involving Coromandel Express, Yashwantpur-Howrah Express and a Goods train at Bahanaga
NDRF Jawan Venktesan NK, who was onboard the Coromandel Express which derailed in Odisha, was among the first to alert his force about that tragic accident.
Integrated response to disaster challenges, monsoon operation preparedness and coordination with State Disaster Response Forces (SDRF) are among the key issues to be discussed in the 'Annual Conference on Capacity Building for Disaster Response 2023' being held here in the national capital o
"Train movement on main lines has been restored, and things are back to normalcy after the full operation. All 9 teams of NDRF who were working in Odisha's Balasore have been withdrawn," Narendra Singh Bundela told ANI.
Director General of NDRF Atul Karwal told ANI, "The rescue operation is more or less complete. I don't think there is any other possibility to locate any live or dead victim in this wreckage. It has been checked a few times. Now I think train travel will become normal."
The restoration work is underway at the Odisha's Balasore where two passenger trains and a goods carriage were involved in a horrific accident, leaving 288 passengers dead and injuring over 1,000 people.
As the nation mourned the loss of lives in the horrific triple train accident in Balasore, the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) said on Saturday that their personnel pulled out 44 passengers alive from the mangled coaches of the passenger trains and retrieved 112 bodies.
As the rescue operation is underway after the horrific train accident that claimed 288 lives in Odisha's Balasore, Amitabh Sharma, Spokesperson, Ministry of Railways on Saturday informed that a total of 58 trains have been cancelled, 81 diverted and 10 terminated.
Around 288 bodies have been recovered while more than 1000 injured people have been admitted to different hospitals as efforts are underway to clear the leftover wreckage of derailed trains from the track here in Odisha's Balasore, a senior NDRF official said on Saturday.
The three-way accident involved Bengaluru-Howrah Superfast Express, the Coromandel Express and the goods trains at Bahanaga Bazar Station in Odisha's Balasore district. According to the Odisha Government's Special Relief Commissioner's office 17 coaches of the two trains had derailed and wer