Train Derailment

President Joe Biden has directed federal agencies to go door-to-door in East Palestine, Ohio, to check on families affected by the toxic train derailment that has morphed into a heated political controversy. Under Biden's order, teams from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Environmental Protection Agency and Federal Emergency Management Agency will visit homes beginning Saturday. Workers will ask how residents are doing, see what they need and connect them with appropriate resources from government and nonprofit organisations, the White House said. The walk teams are modelled on similar teams following hurricanes and other natural disasters. Biden directed employees to get to as many homes as possible by Monday. Officials said the immediate goal was to visit at least 400. The president said he currently has no plans to personally visit Ohio. Meanwhile, the controversy spread far beyond the little Ohio town. Officials in Texas and Michigan expressed concern about ...

They said that nearly half a dozen trains scheduled to pass through the section have been cancelled or diverted on alternate routes

At least 53 wagons of a coal-laden goods train derailed near Gurpa railway station in Bihar in the early hours of Wednesday, disrupting rail traffic, officials said. The incident took place around 6.24 am between Koderma and Manpur railway stations of the Dhanbad division, East Central Railway (ECR) said in a statement. The exact cause of this is yet to be known. Railway teams have started work to restore the lines, a senior official of the ECR Zone said. Nobody was injured due to the derailment, he said. Ten trains were diverted to other routes and four were partially terminated following the incident, the statement said.

Two persons sustained minor injuries after four wheels of a coach of an express train on its way from Bilaspur in Chhattisgarh to Rajasthan's Jodhpur derailed in Gondia district of Maharashtra

Thirty nine trains have been cancelled and 58 others diverted in over 30 hours after a goods train derailed and blocked the route in Gujarat's Dahod district, the Western Railway said on Tuesday

Sixteen wagons of a goods train derailed in Gujarat's Dahod district on Monday blocking the route, following which 29 trains were diverted and one was cancelled so far, Western Railway officials said

The incident took place near Gurudwara Bhattha Sahib when the train was returning from Ropar Thermal Plant after unloading coal, officials said

Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw inspected the Bikaner-Guwahati Express train accident site in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district

The death toll in the Bikaner-Guwahati Express train accident in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district has gone up to nine, a Northeast Frontier Railway spokesperson said on Friday

At least seven people were killed and more than 45 injured when 12 coaches of the Bikaner-Guwahati Express train derailed and some overturned near Domohani in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district

The accident occurred around 5 p.m. in an area under Alipurduar division of Northeast Frontier Railway

Seventeen wagons of a goods train derailed on the Kirandul-Visakhapatnam railway section in Chhattisgarh's Maoist-hit Dantewada district on Friday, a senior police official said.

Seven coaches of a Bengaluru-bound train derailed near Dharmapuri in Tamil Nadu after boulders fell on it but all the 2,000-odd passengers were safe

Goa-bound Rajdhani Express from Hazrat Nizamuddin derailed inside a tunnel in Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra early on Saturday, but there was no report of injury to any passenger, an official said

Five people died and around 30 were injured when five coaches of the New Farakka Express derailed near Rae Bareilly on October 10

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Cases of man-made obstructions were discovered at Malda and Dhanbad divisions

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Centre, Madhya Pradesh & Uttar Pradesh promise cash aid to relatives of deceased; relief work on

Centre announces a compensation of Rs 3.5 lakh, UP govt Rs 5 lakh, and MP govt Rs 2 lakh for the kin of the deceased; 200 injured in the incident