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Jun 30, 2015

Google to add Audio & Visual Alerts to warn Train Drivers about upcoming Rail Crossings in US

Washington, USA: Google will add audio and visual alerts to warn drivers about upcoming railroad crossings on Google’s navigation system, the U.S. Federal Railroad Administration announced on Monday.

The agency also asked four other companies – Apple, Garmin, Tom Tom and AOL’s MapQuest – to join similar map partnerships using the agency’s data to pinpoint the crossings, it said. AOL is owned by Verizon.

The FRA said about 270 people died last year in road-rail collisions. With more drivers using smartphone navigation apps to reach their destinations, the agency said they will be safer if they know about rail crossings they are approaching.

Acting FRA Administrator Sarah Feinberg, a former Facebook Inc executive, said the agency’s geographical data pinpoints nearly every rail crossing in the country.

Representatives for Google could not be immediately reached for comment.

Kolkata Rail Recruitment fraud victims were surprisingly ‘trained’,’paid’

Kolkata (KOAA): The detective department made one more arrest in the fake railway and extortion racket with the arrest of one Jitendra Chowdhury from Rishra. What the cops learnt from him has left them wondering on some insider role in running the gang. Sources said the gang used to operate at different levels and had several persons acting as their field agents across four cities in south Kolkata.

According to police sources, the accused used to charge anywhere between Rs 30,000-40,000 for filling up railway interview forms. Once they were convinced by the gang to come to Kolkata, they were lodged at Naihati and Kanchrapara where they were asked to undergo some “basic General Knowledge and Mathematics training.” They would then be asked to sit for a fake exam and some of them “passed.” The gang members were handed over fake TT badges and even a month’s “salary” (from the money paid to the gang as salaami) after they passed “medical exams” from railway hospitals. They would be “assigned work” at non-descript stations and carsheds with hardly any senior railway officer even having any inkling about the gang’s activities. All this same for a price – they had to shell thousands to get the offer letter. Anyone who refused to pay them were immediately kidnapped and around Rs 4 lakh demanded from family members to free him.

Jun 28, 2015

7th Pay Commission News Center: 7th pay commission has many things in its baggage,...

7th Pay Commission News Center: 7th pay commission has many things in its baggage,...

MLAs to meet CM



A delegation of all five MLAs from Kasaragod district will meet Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and his Cabinet members in the first week of July to press implementation of the Kanhangad-Kaniyooru rail line that provides easiest access to Bangalore.

The MLAs are planning to seek the requisite 50 per cent allocation of funds from the State to commence the work, a proposal mandated by the Railway ministry to take up rail projects in a State. A decision to this effect was taken after senior office-bearers of the Kanhangad Nagara Vikasana Samithi sought the support of the IUML and Left MLAs to remove hurdles to the project. The meeting, held here on Saturday, was attended among others by action committee chairman P. Appukkuttan.
Source - The Hindu
Churchgate station, local train accident
An empty Churchgate-bound local train came crashing into the platform after the motorman, who was driving the locomotive apparently lost control of the vehicle as he couldn't apply the brakes on time. This caused the overhead wire to snap as the train had exceeded the track limit. The incident occured around 11:40 am on Sunday morning. Both the train's motorman and guard have been taken for medical treatment. The local broke into the buffer kept to prevent accidents and half of the first coach went through the platform. Though not confirmed, around 4-5 people are reportedly said to be injured in the incident.
Churchgate station, local train accident
Source - mid-day.

Jun 27, 2015

IRCTC examining the Proposal to make Aadhaar mandatory for Users’ Registration

New Delhi: The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) is planning to make Aadhaar card mandatory for its user registration process for e-ticketing. This will ensure that users registering on the IRCTC web site are properly identified of their identity and address through the Aadhaar card number verification.

In a related move, IRCTC has decided to ramp up its e-ticketing operations by hiring the services of Standardisation Testing and Quality Certification (STQC) for conducting the Security Audit of its Next Generation E-Ticketing System. As part of this, STQC will conduct the web application security and vulnerability assessment of servers and devices that are part of its e-ticketing operations on the hosted servers of www.irctc.co.in. The STQC Directorate is an attached office of the Department of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India.

Pipavav Port shut as Railway track washed away

Pipavav: Cargo handling at Pipavav port in Gujarat’s Amreli district has come to a standstill after large portion of the main railway line connecting the port to northern India was washed away in the Wednesday’s flash floods.

All the operations at the port run by the Danish APM Terminals have been halted and railway officials said that it will take at least three weeks for the railway track to be repaired.

Thousands of containers, majority of them, bound for northern states, have piled up at the port.

A four-km long portion of the broad-gauge line between Dhola and Pipavav was washed away in the flood. The port is connected to northern India by a 269-km Surendranagar-Pipavav broad-gauge line, which also runs double-stack container trains. A major portion of it passes through Amreli which was devastated by the floods.
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