Train services on Eastern Railway’s Sealdah, Howrah and Asansol divisions were disrupted as strikers threw banana leaves on overhead wires leading to power failure in Canning and some other parts of the suburban network. An Eastern Railway media release said strike supporters obstructed rail movement at Shantipur, Gede, Plassey, Bongaon, Madhyamgram, Chandpara and Hasnabad stations. DO YOU THINK BENGAL DESERVES A NOBEL PRIZE FOR PHYSICS for disrupting electrical circuits with BANANA LEAVES. ARE WE NOT PROUD TO BE AN INDIAN TO HAVE MADE SUCH A GREAT SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTION TO THE WORLD. MY... more...
ha ha ... i'am amuzed and courious to know how did they threw it exactly on the overhead electric cables? if they are so accurate then they should try for shooting event in olympics 2012.
it's not like that pramodh. the flow of current will stop at the point where the insulator comes. it doesn't flow like wind that it can pass through some gap.
yeah agree rahul bhai,if they can pin point their throws,it shd b used for beneficial purpose than these notorious ones...even plucking mangoes wud help...he wud b a hit in his school days amongst his frnds i guess...
The photo of suburban train at Howrah station....a stupendous photo by The Hindu... Wonder, what used to be the suburban trains position in ER/SER, when TMC was organising bandhs and CPM used to be in power in WB, and Rlys controlled by TMC.......
Summer holidays are about to come and families are planning tours to spend their holidays. In such a situation, rail is the only medium chosen for convenient travel. Due to this, additional traffic load on railways has increased. Given this, the Railways will operate summer special trains for the convenience of...
Special trains will be operated between Visakhapatnam and SMV Bengaluru by East Coast Railway (ECoR) to clear the extra rush of passengers during summer. ...
दक्षिण मध्य रेलवे, सिकंदराबाद रेल मण्डल के काजीपेट जंक्शन-कोंडापल्ली सेक्शन एवं विजयवाड़ा रेल मंडल के विजयवाड़ा-गोधरा जंक्शन के बीच तीसरी रेलवे लाइन का कार्य जाएगा। इस लिए नान इंटरलाकिंग कार्य के लिए कुछ गाड़ियों का परिचालन प्रभावित रहेगा। नईदुनिया...
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In response to past confusions with Train/Station updates and resulting fights and controversies, the following clear and objective guidelines are being issued, with no room for any arguments or debates about validity. Also, included, some other changes with respect to Ratings.
1. All Red Ratings will require further explanation. Red Ratings won't...
As announced previously, there are a few changes coming to IRI user accounts, based on past practices.
1. As before, you will be able to quickly DELETE your IRI User account at ANY time. However, the menu option for this was hidden in the profile page, and could not easily be located....
A new feature will be released soon, whereby you can follow blogs tagged with specific Trains & Stations. If you have already posted blogs tagged with some Train/Station, then you will be set to automatically follow that Train/Station. Thereafter, any future news/blogs tagged with those Trains/Stations will be marked to your...
These days, every other day, we are getting requests from members to allow email login to their FB-based IRI account. 10 years ago, we had given the option for users to login through FaceBook - in retrospect, this was a mistake. These days, apparently, users are quitting FaceBook in droves because...
Followup to: Fmt Changes
The new version of FmT 2.0 will soon be here - in about 2 weeks. As detailed in the previous announcement, many of the old FmT features like Train TT, Speedometer, Geo Location, etc. will be REMOVED. It will be a bare-bones simple app, focused on trip blogging.
It...
There are some changes coming to FMT. Many of the features of FMT, like station arrival, TT, speed, geo, passing times, station time, etc. are ALREADY available in OTHER railway apps. So all of these features will be REMOVED.
We'll have ONLY BLOGGING - quick upload of pics/videos/audio, etc. You may attach...
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