NEW DELHI: In an exclusive chat, Atul Karwal – the director general of India’s central disaster response agency – provides bone-chilling details of the recent train tragedy which killed approximately 270 people and injured over 700 people in Balasore district of Odisha. Karwal recounts unique challenges faced by the personnel of the National Disaster Response […]

AAP says several complaints regarding faults in the signal maintenance system had been raised from various zones, but no substantial action was taken to rectify the issues

NEW DELHI: While Union Railways Minister Ashiwni Vaishnaw has come under tremendous fire for the Coromandel Express tragedy, the trolls, who are questioning the effectiveness of Kavach, seem to have not done their homework. The line where the Coromandel Express was travelling was not covered by Kavach, India’s indigenous Automatic Train Protection (ATP) System. According […]

DEHRADUN:  Possession of tiger hide from four suspected poachers on Thursday in Uttarakhand has wounded India’s conservation programme with the death toll of tigers rising to 89 after a prima facie probe has pointed at the big cats’ origin and their absence from the Rajaji Tiger Reserve  (RTR) . “These tigers were killed in the […]