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Coronavirus: 50-year-old COVID19 positive man travels by two trains, prays at 2 mosques, attends wedding, infects four others

OpIndia Staff - 29 March, 2020

On Friday, a 50-year-old man who hailed from Khurja in Bulandshahr district in Uttar Pradesh was diagnosed with the deadly Wuhan Coronavirus.

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Coronavirus scare: Indian Railways cancels all passenger trains upto 31st March

OpIndia Staff - 22 March, 2020

A notification issued by Indian Railways said that all passenger train services on Indian Railways will be cancelled till 31 March 2020.

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Railway ministry asks people to avoid train travel as several Covid-19 infected persons found travelling in trains

OpIndia Staff - 21 March, 2020

12 Railway passengers tested positive for novel coronavirus, two deboarded after found with mandatory quarantine stamp.

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Watch: 20 year old Dilshan dies while attempting stunts on local train in Mumbai

OpIndia Staff - 30 December, 2019

20-year-old Dilshan died when he was video recording a stunt on a moving train.

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Pakistan: 73 people, mostly preachers of Islam evangelical event, die as gas cylinder bursts in moving train while cooking eggs

OpIndia Staff - 31 October, 2019

Gas cylinder used to boil eggs by train passengers in Pakistan explode, at least 65 died and several injured

Government and Policy

Tejas Express is the REAL reform: Indian Railways on road to privatisation

Abhishek Banerjee - 7 October, 2019

This is real reform. And it will pay off just like the lifting of government monopoly on air travel did.

Crime

‘Will tear your stomach apart’: One Asif Yusuf Shaikh bites off finger of victim, keeps abusing him even after spitting out severed finger

OpIndia Staff - 21 September, 2019

A squabble over a standing spot near the door in Asangaon fast train took a violent turn as one of the individuals involved in the quarrel named Asif Yusuf Shaikh suddenly chewed off a part of the index finger of the other co-passenger

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“Modi ka kutta haaye haaye” slogans fill the air in Pakistan as protestors echo ‘tukde tukde gang’ slogans during ‘Kashmir Hour’

OpIndia Staff - 30 August, 2019

The so-called solidarity march was a response to Pakistan PM Imran Khan's message to Pakistanis to come out at 12 noon -12.30 pm on Friday to show solidarity with the Kashmiri people and send the Kashmiris a clear message that the entire Pakistani nation stands in solidarity with them.

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India suspends Thar Express Link that connected Jodhpur to Karachi a week after Pakistan suspended service

OpIndia Staff - 17 August, 2019

The Thar Express Link, a train that ran weekly between Jodhpur, Rajasthan to Karachi, Pakistan was suspended by India on Friday, a week after Pakistan suspended the train service.

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