Pakistani train driver, guard questioned at Attari

August 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A Delhi Metro train jumped tracks in the national capital on Wednesday afternoon, but no was injured in this freak accident. No one was injured in the mishap, which took place at Dwarka station in south-west Delhi at around 3:20 pm.

July 5th, 2009 ATTARI - The Border Security Force (BSF) is investigating two blasts that occurred in a village along the fenced border between India and Pakistan Saturday night. BSF officials said two shells landed on the Indian side of the border in paddy fields of Dande village near the Attari-Wagah land border joint check post, 30 km from Amritsar city.

July 4th, 2009 GHAZIABAD - At least seven persons, including a driver and a guard, were injured when a Delhi-bound passenger train hit a goods train loaded with petrol near the Ghaziabad railway station on Saturday. A railway official the 310 Ambala Saharanpur Nizammuddin passenger train was on its way to the Nizammuddin railway station in Delhi when the accident took place at around 11.50 p.m.

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.

May 20th, 2009 JALANDHAR - At least six children and the driver of a school bus were killed Wednesday morning when their vehicle collided with a passenger train at an unmanned railway crossing in Punjab's Jalandhar district. While three students and the driver died on the spot, three critically injured children were declared brought dead at a hospital in Ludhiana city.

April 3rd, 2009 AMRITSAR - Pakistani security authorities Friday allowed the Amritsar-Lahore-Nankana Sahib peace bus between the two countries to enter its territory, but the bus did not have any passengers. Border Security Force (BSF) officials at the Attari border, 30 km from here, said that the bus was allowed to cross the international border gates with only its crew on board.

April 2nd, 2009 AMRITSAR - Uncertainty prevails over the India-Pakistan peace bus being allowed to enter Pakistani territory Friday by authorities in that country in the wake of the recent terrorist strikes near Lahore. The Amritsar-Lahore 'Punjab-Aab' bus will leave this city for its journey till Lahore city in Pakistan, 55 km from here, Friday.

March 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The investiture ceremony for conferring the Kirti Chakra on train driver N. N. Bora posthumously will be held at Rashtrapati Bhavan today.

March 5th, 2009 AMRITSAR - The Border Security Force (BSF) early Wednesday foiled an attempt by Pakistani intruders to smuggle heroin into India, killing one of them in a gunbattle and arresting another near the international border in Punjab, an official said. While one smuggler managed to escape, another was killed in the gunbattle at Mahwa post near Attari in the Amritsar sector, BSF's Punjab Frontier Deputy Inspector General Jagir Singh told IANS.

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.

February 4th, 2009 RANCHI - Passengers on the New Delhi-Ranchi Garib Rath express, which witnessed a high voltage drama after it was 'hijacked' by a drunk driver, heaved a sigh of relief after the train safely reached Ranchi railway station Thursday. The Garib Rath express left New Delhi on Wednesday evening for Ranchi on its first trip.

February 1st, 2009 AHMEDABAD - A day after the Indian Coast Guard apprehended four Pakistani fishing boats off the Gujarat coast, the 26 crew members were Monday handed over to police for interrogation, an official said. Wing Commander Satish Menon told IANS that the Coast Guard vessel 'Tarabai' had apprehended the four Pakistani fishing boats - 'al Imran', 'al Basheer', 'Bismillah' and 'Abdullah' - Sunday evening off Jakhau coast following a tip-off about the boats being in Indian waters.

January 26th, 2009 AMRITSAR - Nearly 14 kg of heroin worth Rs.140 million was seized from three people, including two women, at the Attari railway station Tuesday, a customs official said. The three people, from Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh, have been arrested.

January 3rd, 2009 LUCKNOW - A freak rail accident in Kanpur Sunday disrupted movement of trains on the busy Delhi-Kolkata trunk route. An incoming goods train rammed into a stationary goods train near the Panki station in Kanpur, about 85 km from here.

December 27th, 2008 AMRITSAR - Very few passengers from India are boarding the bus service from here to Lahore and Nankana Sahib in Pakistan and the numbers are likely to go down further with the Ministry of External Affairs issuing a travel advisory asking Indians not to travel to Pakistan. Started in 2006, the Amritsar-Lahore and Amritsar-Nankana Sahib (the birthplace of Sikhism founder Guru Nanak Dev) bus services have never been a big hit with people due to the lack of a facility for obtaining Pakistani visas from here.