Indian Railway wagon reaches UP from Andhra Pradesh in 3.5 years
New Delhi, July 27: In yet another ‘laurel’ for Indian railways, a goods wagon booked in 2014 took 3.5 years to complete 1400 Km journey to reach its destination in Uttar Pradesh (UP). As per reports, the wagon was booked by a trader to transport fertilizers from the Visakhapatnam port to UP’s Basti but when there was no sign of the wagon for several months, the trader contacted the Railway officials.
The officials had no explanation as to why the wagon booked to transport fertilizers from a public sector company Indian Potash Limited, reached its destination in Uttar Pradesh’s Basti after such a long time. Despite the trader’s best efforts to reach out to the railway authorities in UP and Andhra Pradesh, the authorities failed to track the wagon and its whereabouts.
The wagon finally rolled into the Basti railway station on Thursday after travelling to several railway stations for such a long time which led to the decay of the consignment.
This isn’t the first time that Indian Railways messed up destinations and timelines, in March a Delhi-bound passenger train 64464 travelling from Panipat to Delhi landed up on the wrong station. The train took a different course and reached the Old Delhi Railway station instead of New Delhi Railway station. One employee was suspended and the authorities blamed.
Last month, new coaches attached to trains running between New Delhi and Ranchi went missing. The coached belonged to premium trains such as the Rajdhani Express and Sampark Kranti Express went missing. The authorities had no clue and speculated that organised gangs were behind the theft of the bogies.
Courtesy: www.timesnownews.com
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5 schoolchildren among 7 killed in blast in southwest Pakistan
Islamabad (PTI): At least seven people, including five schoolchildren and a policeman, were killed on Friday in a remote-controlled blast in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province, according to media reports.
The blast occurred at 8.35 am near a school at the Civil Hospital Chowk of the Mastung district of the province, Dawn newspaper reported.
“It appears that an IED (improvised explosive device) attached to a motorcycle was detonated near a police mobile,” Kalat Division Commissioner Naeem Bazai was quoted as saying in the report.
“So far, seven individuals have been killed, including five school students,” Bazai said. At least 22 people were injured in the attack.
Most of those injured were schoolchildren, Geo News reported, adding that they were shifted to a nearby hospital.
A police van and several auto-rickshaws were damaged in the explosion, according to the report.
An emergency was declared across all Quetta hospitals after the blast, the report said quoting the provincial health department spokesperson, adding that all doctors, pharmacists, staff nurses and other medical staff were summoned.
