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SIT formed to investigate Amritsar train tragedy
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
Amritsar (Punjab) [India], Oct 21 (ANI): Amritsar Commissioner of Police SS Srivastava on Monday confirmed that Special Investigation Team (SIT) has been constituted to investigate the train accident which took place here on October 19. As many as 59 people were dead and 57 injured in the tr
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Event organiser cries foul, says train mishap an 'act of god'
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 22 (India): Sourabh Madan Mithu, who organised the Dussehra event that ended with the death of 59 spectators on a railway track in Amritsar, on Monday cried foul and said that he had taken all preventive measures and permissions before organising the event.
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Shiv Sena compares Amritsar train mishap with Jallianwala Bagh massacre
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Oct 22 (ANI): Shiv Sena, on Monday, compared the last week's Amritsar train mishap with Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919.
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SAD demands resignation of Sidhu, murder case against wife
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
Amritsar (Punjab) [India], Oct 21 (ANI): The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) core committee on Sunday demanded the immediate sacking of Punjab Local Bodies minister Navjot Singh Sidhu and the registration of a murder case against Navjot Kaur Sidhu as well as the organizers of the Dussehra festival
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Amritsar train mishap: Police permission granted for Dussehra event
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
Amritsar (Punjab) [India], Oct 21 (ANI): Amritsar Police Commissioner SS Shrivastava on Sunday confirmed that the police permission was granted for organising Dussehra event at Dhobi Ghat ground, where the unfortunate train accident took place that killed as many as 59 people in Amritsar.
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Amritsar train tragedy: Swamy blames Amarinder Singh for the deadly mishap
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 21 (ANI): After dozens of people were mowed down by a speeding train in Amritsar on Friday, Bharatiya Janata Party leader (BJP) leader Subramanian Swamy blamed Captain Amarinder Singh-led Punjab government for not doing enough to safeguard the area near the railway tra
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Amritsar accident: Ramlila committee holds candle march in Chandigarh
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], Oct 20 (ANI): Artists of the Shree Ramleela Committee on Saturday held a candle march in Chandigarh as a tribute to the victims of the Amritsar train tragedy that took place during Dussehra celebrations on Friday.
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Independent agency should conduct inquiry into Amritsar mishap: Sukhbir Ba
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
Amritsar (Punjab) [India], Oct. 20 (ANI): Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Saturday said that an independent agency should conduct an inquiry into Amristar train tragedy that claimed lives of 59 people.
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Amritsar Train Tragedy: Family of 13-year-old victim holds protest
Updated : 7 years, 5 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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Amritsar train tragedy was avoidable, railway not at fault: Manoj Sinha
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 20 (ANI): Union Minister of State (MoS) for Railways Manoj Sinha on Saturday asserted that Amritsar train accident was completely avoidable and the Railways was not at fault.
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Artist playing Ravan among victims of Amritsar train tragedy
Updated : 7 years, 5 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, 5 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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