Day: October 20, 2018

The railways was not intimated about a Dussehra event along the tracks that led to the deaths of at least 61 people in Amritsar, Railway Board Chairman Ashwani Lohani said in a statement.

For more than 20 years, people from adjoining villages would gather at the vacant plot at Joda Phatak, barely 50 metres from railway tracks, to witness the burning of Ravana effigy as part of Dussehra celebrations.

The Travancore Devaswom Board has issued notice to the junior priests who sat at the bottom of the sacred 18 steps that lead to the sanctum sanctorum of the Ayyappan Temple, protesting the entry of women into the temple. 

Rajeev’s success is moulded by sweat and time. He says that 45 days before every competition, he undergoes intense training for a minimum of five hours every day. “On non-competition days too, I exercise minimum 50 minutes in the morning and night to be competition-ready.”

A case has been registered against orator and popular pattimandram anchor, Dindigul I Leoni, for defaming the Chief Minister and Deputy Chief Minister.

Seven of the 70-odd people injured in a train accident in Amritsar were in critical conditions, officials said today.

Archery students from Fusion Academy in Mugappair West participated in 11th Tamilnadu State Archery Meet 2018 conducted by the Archery Association of Tamilnadu.

A tragic train accident in which over 60 people died became a political blame game with the Opposition holding Punjab’s Congress government responsible for allowing a Dussehra event near railway tracks and accusing ex-MLA Navjot Kaur Sidhu of running away from the site.

At least 61 people were killed and 72 injured Friday evening after a crowd of Dussehra revellers that had spilled onto railway tracks while watching burning of Ravana effigy was run over by a train near here, officials said.