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April 23rd, 2009 27 treated after commuter bus burns on LA freewayLOS ANGELES — A commuter bus caught fire Thursday on a Los Angeles-area freeway, and 27 people were treated for smoke inhalation, a fire official said. No one was seriously injured but the bus was gutted.

April 23rd, 2009 30 treated after commuter bus burns on LA freewayLOS ANGELES — Authorities say 30 people are being treated for smoke inhalation after a commuter bus caught fire on a Southern California highway. California Highway Patrol Officer David Porter says the fire was reported at 6:45 a.m.

February 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Two bomb hoax calls delayed the New Delhi-Lucknow Shatabdi Express for more than an hour Wednesday. The first call came to the New Delhi railway station at around 4 a.m.

February 26th, 2009 KOLKATA - Four Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel were injured, one of them seriously, when suspected Maoists fired at them at a railway station in West Bengal's Purulia district, officials said Wednesday. State Inspector General of Police (Law and Order) Raj Kanojia said the Maoists sprayed bullets when the RPF personnel were boarding the Subarnarekha Express at Barbhum railway station in Purulia, about 200 km from here.

February 12th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - The Howrah-Chennai Coromandel Express was derailed Friday evening near Jajpur railway station in Orissa, an official said. 'We have received information about the derailment.

February 12th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Three passengers were killed and eight injured when the Howrah-Chennai Coromandel Express was derailed Friday evening near Jajpur railway station in Orissa, an official said. Giving the casualty figures to IANS, East Coast Railway chief public relations officer J.P.

February 12th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Orissa has been neglected in interim railway budget presented by Railways Minister Lalu Prasad in Parliament Friday, Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said here. 'I am disappointed as Orissa has been neglected,' Patnaik told reporters here, adding that only one new express train was proposed to be introduced in the state in 2009-2010.

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 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government Thursday approved a proposal to set up two greenfield electric and diesel locomotive factories in Bihar at an estimated investment of Rs.20 billion (Rs.2,000 crore). The factories will be set up in Madhepura and Saran districts as a joint venture between Indian Railways and an international manufacturer.

February 3rd, 2009 MUMBAI - Protesting commuters demanding better train services blocked suburban railway traffic on the western sector in Mumbai Wednesday causing inconvenience to hundreds of thousands of daily travellers. Several trains were either delayed or cancelled, according to a Western Railway spokesperson.

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 16th, 2009 JALANDHAR - Hundreds of passengers of the Pathankot-Delhi Express train had a lucky escape Saturday as it was stopped by applying emergency brakes, barely 100 metres away from a stationary engine near here. A head-on collision between the passenger train and the engine, which was on a shunting job, was avoided by a whisker after both came on the same track near the Phillaur railway station near Jalandhar.

January 16th, 2009 RAIPUR - At least five people were injured when the train they were in was hit by a engine during shunting operations at the railway station here Saturday, officials said. The accident took place when an engine hit the Visakhapatanam-Korba Link Express at Raipur station during the shunting process, officials said.

January 14th, 2009 AGARTALA - Bullet proof locomotives and protective jackets for crew members are among the security measures being undertaken for train services in the militancy-hit hill section of southern Assam that links Tripura and Mizoram, officials said here Thursday. 'After a series of terrorist attacks, the railway ministry has decided to deploy two more battalions (2,000 personnel) of Railway Protection Force (RPF) in the militancy-hit hill section of southern Assam to ensure safe train movement,' an official of the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) said.

December 23rd, 2008 GUWAHATI - A major disaster was averted Wednesday when a powerful explosion missed the super fast Rajdhani Express from New Delhi by a couple of minutes, although the blast damaged a portion of a railway track in Assam, officials said. A police spokesman said the blast took place at around 1 a.m.