Moscow’s Leningrad railway station to get its pre-Revolutionary name back _ 18 years late

October 13th, 2009 Russian gays denounce club closureMOSCOW — Russian gay rights activists are denouncing the planned closure of Moscow's oldest gay club. The city has ordered the club shut down by Nov.

October 12th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - A rickshaw puller dumped his two daughters - aged three and one - at a railway station in Orissa after he fathered a son, police said Monday. The two girls Mamuni and Chummuni were left to fend for themselves, but were recovered by railway police officials.

October 7th, 2009 KOLKATA - A mother who gave birth on a train jumped off it as the newborn slipped through the toilet pipe and fell on the tracks in West Bengal, a railway official said Wednesday. Both the mother and baby are fine.

August 22nd, 2009 KOLKATA - The Metro Railway will set up a 75-bed hospital here, to be named after celebrated film-maker Tapan Sinha, Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee announced Saturday. Banerjee also announced that stadium named after legendary film director Satyajit Ray will come up in the southern eastern fringes of the city at Behala.

August 16th, 2009 KOLKATA - The Eastern Railway (ER) Sunday ran a heritage train pulled by a century-old steam engine to commemorate the trip of the first passenger train from Howrah station 155 years back during the British rule. The engine, called Shahenshah (WP-7,200), chugged out from Howrah at 11.55 a.m.

August 4th, 2009 KOLKATA - A ticketless passenger accused a woman ticket checker of stripping her, leading to a mob fury at the bustling Sealdah station here. But an official inquiry found she had disrobed herself to draw sympathy from fellow commuters, a railway official said Tuesday.

July 10th, 2009 MOSCOW - Eighteen years after St Petersburg shed its Soviet-era name of Leningrad, the Leningrad railway station in Moscow is to be renamed. According to The Scotsman, the Russian state railway company said yesterday that the station would be called Nikolayev Station in honor of Russia's last Tsar Nicholas I, who initiated its 19th-century construction.

July 9th, 2009 Confusion over Leningrad station reflects riftsMOSCOW — Revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin may be losing another round in the fight over Russia's history. Or maybe not.

June 18th, 2009 NEW YORK - Lydia Guevara, granddaughter of the late revolutionary idol Ernesto "Che" Guevara, is set to star in a campaign to encourage a vegetarian diet for the organisation People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). Guevara, 24, is set to be photographed with the beret that was her grandfather's trademark.

June 12th, 2009 Finnish railway unions plan 1-day strikeHELSINKI — Finnish railway workers say they will halt all passenger and cargo traffic on Monday to protest the state-owned railway company's personnel policies and layoffs. Finnish rail VR says the one-day strike will affect some 200,000 passengers, including those traveling by rail to Russia and commuters in the capital region.

May 25th, 2009 JALANDHAR/VIENNA - Train bogies were torched at the Jalandhar Cantt station, a key highway blocked and vehicles and shops set afire as large parts of Punjab came to a standstill Monday after news that a top leader of the Dera Sachh Khand sect had died of his injuries following a clash in a Vienna gurdwara. Armed with sticks, swords, bricks and stones, protestors of the sect, who are from the Dalit Sikh community and followers of Guru Ravidass, came out in large numbers in Punjab's Doaba belt and tension spread in Jalandhar, Phagwara, Hoshiarpur and Nawanshahr towns.

May 25th, 2009 JALANDHAR - Mobs in Punjab Monday set railway coaches on fire at the Jalandhar Cantt railway station and blocked the National Highway No.1 to protest clashes at a gurdwara in Austria's capital Vienna that left one dead and many injured.

May 10th, 2009 MOSCOW - A major fire that broke out after a natural gas pipeline exploded in west Moscow early Sunday has been extinguished, the emergencies ministry said. 'The fire at the gas pipeline on Ozernaya Street in west Moscow has been liquidated.

March 7th, 2009 MOSCOW - A St. Petersburg-based communist group Friday said it would raise money to build public statues of communist leader Vladimir Lenin's wife and mistress.

January 11th, 2009 PATNA - In the drive to make Bihar a crime-free state, the police have sought divine intervention by performing special prayers at the railway stations to prevent any wrongdoing in trains. Special prayers were organised by the Government Railway Police (GRP) at the Ara railway station in Bhojpur district, about 60 km from here.