Bengaluru: In a major administrative reshuffle, the Karnataka state government has ordered the transfer of six Deputy Superintendents of Police (DySPs) and 27 Civil Police Inspectors with immediate effect.

According to the official order released on Monday, the following DySPs (Civil) have been reassigned, DySPs (Civil) M. Malleshaiah have been transferred to Hoskote sub-division, Shankar Gowda Annasaheb Patil to State Intelligence, Naveen Kulkarni to Bengaluru Police Headquarters, G.T. Swamy to Kalaburagi Aland sub-division, B.R. Gopi to IND and Ravikumar to BMRDA Task Force in Bengaluru.

Also, 27 people including Police Inspectors (Civil) N. Raghu Prasad, Yaligar Pramod Chidambaram, Mahesh Gowda G. Patil, Ramappa B. Savalagi, D.K. Santosh Kumar has been transferred with immediate effect, the order said.

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Nagpur (PTI): A coach of the New Delhi-Chennai Grant Trunk Express caught fire in Maharashtra's Wardha district on Tuesday morning, railway officials said.

There were no casualties, they said.

Train 12616 New Delhi-Chennai (Tambaram) Grant Trunk Express left from Nagpur in the morning. While it was heading towards Sindi railway station in Wardha, smoke was detected in the last guard coach of the train at 11.09 am, Central Railway spokesperson Sanjay Muley told PTI.

The train was stopped on the Sindi-Tuljapur section, the affected coach was detached immediately, and the fire brigade was called, he said.

All passengers in the train and the coach concerned were safe, the official said.

The cause of the fire will be known after a detailed investigation.

The train will resume its journey in some time without the affected coach, the official added.