Four killed in Chennai train collision

September 21st, 2009 CHENNAI - Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram Monday flagged off the non-stop Duronto Express from Chennai to Hazrat Nizamuddin in New Delhi.

September 21st, 2009 CHENNAI - Union Home Minster P. Chidambaram flagged off the super fast Duronto Express train between Chennai and New Delhi on Monday.

August 12th, 2009 CHENNAI - Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram flagged off three women special EMU train services at the Tambaram railway station near Chennai on Wednesday morning.

August 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee will inaugurate the first ever 'Only Ladies' EMU train services in Northern Railway between Delhi-Palwal at New Delhi station today. In the same function, Union Minister and Congress leader Vilasrao Deshmukh will also inaugurate another 'Only Ladies' EMU train services by remote, which will run from Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus to Panvel in Mumbai suburban in Central Railway.

May 20th, 2009 JALANDHAR - At least four people, including three children, were killed and several injured Wednesday morning when their school bus collided with a passenger train at an unmanned railway crossing in Punjab's Jalandhar district. The bus, belonging top Akal Academy school, had picked up the students from their homes and was taking them to school Wednesday morning when the accident took place near Gumtala village in Jalandhar district.

May 20th, 2009 JALANDHAR - Three children and the driver taking them to school were killed Wednesday morning when their bus collided with passenger train at an unmanned railway crossing in Punjab's Jalandhar district. Fifteen children were also injured when the Akal Academy School bus that had picked up the students from their homes and was on its way to school met with the accident near Gumtala village near Jalandhar.

April 30th, 2009 CHENNAI - A tattoo in Telugu has been found on the arm of the mystery driver who caused a major railway accident that claimed four lives Wednesday, a police official said Thursday evening. 'We have found a tattoo in Telugu language on one of the arms of the unidentified body - obviously the mystery driver.

April 30th, 2009 CHENNAI - The elite Crime Branch Criminal Investigation Department (CB-CID) of the Tamil Nadu police will probe Wednesday's train collision in a Chennai suburb that claimed four lives, officials said Thursday. Additional Director General of Police Archana Ramasundaram said a special team had been formed to investigate the matter.

April 29th, 2009 CHENNAI - At least seven people were killed and 20 injured when a local passenger train collided with a goods train in Chennai's northern Vyasarpadi suburb Wednesday, an official said. 'The accident occurred a little before 6 a.m.

April 29th, 2009 CHENNAI - At least seven people were killed and 20 injured when a local passenger train collided with a goods train in a Chennai suburb Wednesday. Train services in the region were disrupted, an official said.

April 29th, 2009 CHENNAI/PATNA - At least seven people were killed and 20 injured when a local passenger train collided with a goods train in a Chennai suburb Wednesday, an official said. In Patna, Railway Minister Lalu Prasad said that an inquiry will be conducted into the collision.

April 29th, 2009 CHENNAI - At least four people were killed when an empty train driven by an unidentified person took off from Chennai's main railway station without permission and collided with a stationary train within minutes early Wednesday. Railway officials admitted they were puzzled who drove the passenger train much before its scheduled departure from Chennai Central station.

March 1st, 2009 LUCKNOW - At least 10 people were killed and 20 injured when a train hit a bus, carrying members of a marriage party, at an unmanned railway crossing in Uttar Pradesh Saturday evening, a police official said. The passengers in the bus were returning from attending a marriage party.

February 17th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Several trains on the busy Howrah-Chennai route were cancelled or diverted Wednesday after at least 25 wagons of a goods train that started from Paradip port in Orissa derailed near the border with West Bengal. The goods train, carrying coal from Paradip to Raigarh in Chhattisgarh, derailed near the Narayangarh station in West Bengal, 40 km from the border.

February 13th, 2009 PATNA - At least 12 people were injured when a passenger train collided with a goods train in Bihar's Motihari district early Saturday morning, the second accident within 24 hours. The Gorakhpur-Muzaffarpur passenger train collided with the engine of a goods train standing at Sugauli railway station near Motihari.