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  • Odisha Train Crash: 3 Union Ministers Visit SCBMCH At Cuttack To See Injured, Stress On Saving Every Life

    Odisha Train Crash: 3 Union Ministers Visit SCBMCH At Cuttack To See Injured, Stress On Saving Every Life

    Cuttack: Three Union Ministers on Sunday visited SCB Medical College and Hospital at Cuttack where several people injured in the horrific triple train crash are undergoing treatment.

    The deadly accident that took place at Bahanaga in Odisha’s Balasore district has claimed at least 275 lives and left 1175 persons injured.

    Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya and Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan visited the premier health facility at Cuttack to ascertain the condition of the injured persons.

    The three Union Ministers went around the wards and interacted with the injured persons undergoing treatment. They sought to know about their condition.

    During their visit, the Ministers also spoke to senior doctors and officials at the hospital to take stock of the arrangements made for the treatment of the injured. They also gave necessary instruction for proper treatment of the affected people. The focus should be to save every life, they stressed.

    Mandaviya, who reached Odisha this morning, has already said that expert doctors from three premier hospitals in New Delhi have reached come with modern equipment and medicines to assist in the treatment of the injured.

    Stating that over 100 patients need critical care, he said expert doctors from Delhi AIIMS, Lady Hardinge Hospital and RML Hospital along with modern equipment and medicines have reached here. “We had a detailed discussion and a working plan has also been prepared,” the Minister said.

    Before proceeding to Cuttack, the Union Health Minister visited AIIMS Bhubaneswar where the bodies of those killed in the train mishap were preserved.

    He took a review meeting with senior doctors and officials of AIIMS, Bhubaneswar.

    The Minister also visited the Capital hospital in Bhubaneswar to ascertain the condition of the injured patients.

    The Minister said that a detailed review of the patients’ condition and the hospitals they are admitted and what kind of treatment is required and how the experts’ team can assist was done.

    “A working plan has been chalked out for providing advanced treatment so that we can save precious lives,” he said.

    Earlier, Vaishnaw and Dharmendra also visited the hospitals at Soro and Bhadrak to know about the treatment of the injured persons admitted there.

  • Odisha Police Warns Of Severe Action After Tweets Give Communal Spin To Train Accident

    Odisha Police Warns Of Severe Action After Tweets Give Communal Spin To Train Accident

    Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Police has warned of severe legal action against those trying to give a “communal colour” to June 2 triple train accident in Odisha’s Balasore district, which claimed 275 lives.

    “It has come to notice that some social media handles are mischievously giving communal colour to the tragic train accident at Balasore. This is highly unfortunate. Investigation by the GRP, Odisha into the cause and all other aspects of the accident is going on,” it tweeted.

    People have been urged to desist from spreading “false and ill-motivated posts”, it added.

    A Twitter user named The Random Indian (@randomsena) had shared an aerial view of the accident site with an arrow directed towards a white building, which it presumed to be a mosque. The user captioned it as ‘Just Saying Yesterday Was Friday’.

    Just Saying
    Yesterday Was Friday pic.twitter.com/HWz3zoCnS0

    — The Random Indian (@randomsena) June 3, 2023

    This particular tweet was part of a thread wherein the user tried to establish that the train accident was a planned attack by Muslims while the Railways attributed the derailment to an error in the electronic signalling system that led Coromandel Express to wrongly change tracks and crash into a freight train.

    Several other users tweeted the same image.

    A journalist at the spot later told Alt News that the structure near the accident was the Bahanaga ISKCON temple and not a mosque. Fact-checking website, BOOM FactCheck, also confirmed the same after examining several pictures of the site.

    Another user tweeted that the devastating train accident on auspicious Friday, when special observance are practised for Durga, Lakshmi, Saraswari and Kali, is a very bad omen for the Prime Minister.

  • Snana Purnima in Puri: Blood stain spotted near Snana Mandapa, Mahasnana rituals to be performed again

    Snana Purnima in Puri: Blood stain spotted near Snana Mandapa, Mahasnana rituals to be performed again

    Puri: The Mahasnana (bathing) rituals of Lord Jagannath and his siblings on the occasion of the Snana Purnima will be performed yet again as a blood stain was reportedly spotted near the Snana Mandapa of the 12th century shrine.

    According to reports, the rituals of Lord Jagannath, Lord Balabhadra, Debi Subhadra and His Aayudha Sudarshan Chakra- were held as per the schedule.

    The Snana Purnima rituals began with the Mangala Alati and was followed by the Abakasa Niti. Even the magnificent bathing rituals of the deities had completed after the Chaturdhamurti were treated with 108 pitchers of special herbal water.

    The costumes for the Hati Besha of the deities also had arrived at the Srimandir and the idols of the trinity were about to be decorated with this special attire after bathing rituals. In the meantime, a cop of the Jagannath Temple Police station spotted a blood stain near the Snana Mandapa and informed the servitors.

    Later, the servitors decided to conduct the Mahasnana rituals yet again. As per the tradition, if blood stain is found on the premises of the Srimandir it has to be purified and the rituals have to be performed again.

  • Odisha train tragedy: daughter’s persistence saved their life, says man

    Odisha train tragedy: daughter’s persistence saved their life, says man

    Balasore: Nothing can happen without God’s will, a leaf cannot even fall off a tree. This is the ultimate truth of life. One feels that this saying is even more apt after listening to the heart-wrenching tales of the Odisha train tragedy survivors.

    One such story has come to light. A father and daughter duo were traveling on one of the ill-fated trains when the daughter, a 8-year-old insisted on sitting near the window. The father and an 8-year-old daughter have survived the gruesome train accident in Balasore. The father and daughter’s lives have been saved due to daughter’s insistence. The man changed the coach of the train because the little girl insisted on sitting in the window seat.

    According to available reports, the father and his 8-year-old daughter boarded the train from Kharagpur station. Both of them were travelling to see a doctor in Cuttack. The man had a third AC coach ticket with him. But the girl insisted on sitting by the window seat. At the girl’s insistence, the man spoke to Ticket Checker (TC). The TC denied that there was no window seat available, but requested another passenger to change the seat with the father-daughter duo.

    After TC said, the man asked the nearby passengers to change their seats but none of them agreed. But still the little girl kept on insisting to change seats. However, in order to fulfill the girl’s insistence, the father and daughter went to another coach and requested a passenger to exchange his seat. He however agreed and switched places with them, and then after some time this terrible train accident occurred. The coach in which they were sitting earlier was affected. But, since they had changed their seat they were safe and sound.

    While interacting with KalingaTV, the man said that it felt as if God in the form of his daughter had saved both of them.

    It is worth noting that the entire world has mourned the terrible Odisha train tragedy that occurred at Bahanga station in Balasore district of Odisha on Friday evening. In this accident as many as 275 people have lost their lives and at least 1175 people have been injured.

  • Plea in SC seeks panel headed by retired judge to probe Odisha 3-train accident

    Plea in SC seeks panel headed by retired judge to probe Odisha 3-train accident

    New Delhi: A plea has been moved in the Supreme Court seeking a direction to set up an expert commission, headed by a retired judge of the apex court, to probe the triple train accident in Odisha.

    The Balasore train accident, where two passenger trains and a goods carriage were involved, claimed 275 lives so far and left over 1,000 people injured.

    The PIL, filed by advocate Vishal Tiwari, sought a direction to immediately set up an expert commission headed by a retired judge of the apex court and also consisting of technical members to analyse and review the current risk and safety parameters in the railway system and the panel should submit its report to the court.

    Citing the Odisha train accident, the plea said: “It needs to be mentioned with greater concern and emphasis that India from the last few decades has seen a series of train collisions and derailments causing severe sufferance to people of our country in the form of deaths and injuries of permanent nature. Time and again, the respondent authorities have been slow to provide redress in developing a safety enforcement mechanism against such collisions and accidents.”

    The plea said, “The enforcement of safety mechanism of such train protection system is still not implemented on practical grounds throughout the country as it has been clearly proven that the KAVACH, which is an Automatic Train Protection System, was still not applied on these routes and such is still in the process of installing Kavach across the network.”

    The plea stressed that with thousands and lakhs of passengers traveling daily on trains, it becomes absolutely necessary on the part of the authorities to ensure the basic implementation of safety and redress mechanisms like the Kavach system, which would ensure safety for the people.

    Citing various accidents over the years claiming hundreds of lives, the plea argued that with unregulated and negligent actions, there needs to be a strict judicial intervention, as this matters the concern of public safety and life which stands at the highest pedestal on the functioning of any state machinery.

    The plea urged the apex court to issue a direction to the government to issue guidelines/directions for the implementation of Automatic Train Protection (ATP) system called KAVACH Protection System in Indian railways with immediate effect to ensure public safety.

  • Odisha train accident: SCR announces cancellation of more trains

    Odisha train accident: SCR announces cancellation of more trains

    Hyderabad: The South Central Railway (SCR) has announced cancellation of few more trains due to train disaster in Odisha in Kharagpur-Bhadrak section of South Eastern Railway.

    The authorities cancelled at least 10 trains and diverted a few more trains as the track at the accident site is yet to be restored for rail traffic.

    The cancelled trains are train number 18046 Hyderabad-Shalimar, 22855 Santragachi-Tirupati, 22856 Tirupati-Santragachi, 12245 Howrah-SMVT Bengaluru, 18045 Shalimar-Hyderabad, 12841 Shalimar-MGR Chennai Central, 18048 Vasco-Da-Gama-Howrah, 18048/17604 (slip coaches) Vasco-Da-Gama-Shalimar/Kacheguda, 1703 Howrah-Secunderabad and 12840 Chennai Central-Howrah.

    Train number 22305 SMVT Bengaluru-Jasidih was rescheduled to depart at 12.30 hours instead of scheduled departure of 10 hours. Train number 12864 SMVT Bengaluru-Howrah departed at 13.00 hours instead of scheduled departure of 10.35 hours. Similarly 12246 SMVT Bengaluru-Howrah departed at 13.30 hours instead of scheduled departure of 11.20 hours.

    Train number 12663 Howrah-Tiruchirappalli and Train number 12504 Agartala-SVMT Bengaluru with original route Kharagpur-Visakhapatnam will be diverted through Kharagpur, Tatanagar, Rourkela and Jharsuguda.

    Train number 12513 Secunderabad-Guwahati has been diverted via Kharagpur, Tata Rourkela and Jharsuguda.

    The SCR also announced that 17603 Kacheguda-Yelahanka and 17604 Yelahanka-Kacheguda have been augmented with one coach each of AC II Tier, AC III Tier and Sleeper.

  • Death toll in Balasore train accident is 275 & not 288, clarifies Odisha Chief Secy

    Death toll in Balasore train accident is 275 & not 288, clarifies Odisha Chief Secy

    Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Secretary Pradeep Jena has confirmed that the final death toll of the Coromandel train accident is 275, and not 288. Chief Secy informed that some of the dead bodies were counted twice.

    Out of the total 275 bodies, 78 bodies have already been identified and dispatched to their hometown. 10 bodies have been identified and soon will be shifted. Identification of the rest 187 dead bodies is underway.

    The government has also a helpline number- 18003450061 for the kin of the dead bodies, who are coming for identification.

    According to BMC commissioner Vijay Amruta Kulange, 170 bodies have been kept in different hospitals of Bhubaneswar and the helpline number has been issued to facilitate family/friends/relatives of deceased people and people stranded in the tragic train accident.

    The helpline number is 1929. People can make phone calls round the clock or visit the BMC-ICOMC tower in the Satya Nagar area of Bhubaneswar to get information about deceased persons.

    Besides, people can contact the following people for more details:

    Rajesh Pradhan: 6370946287
    Asish Patra:7978095293
    Debasish Mishra:6370585221
    Deepak Kumar Rout: 8249217415
    Sandeep Moharana: 8847822559
    Supervisor: Jayprakash Mohanty 9853394834 (BSCL)

  • Odisha train tragedy: Team of expert doctors to arrive from Delhi

    Odisha train tragedy: Team of expert doctors to arrive from Delhi

    Bhubaneswar:  A team of expert doctors along with medical equipment and medicines from New Delhi will reach Odisha to provide quality care to the critically injured in the tragic 3-train accident in Odisha.

    This was informed by Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, who took stock of medical assistance being provided to the injured victims in the Balasore’s triple train tragedy here at AIIMS Bhubaneswar on Sunday.

    He discussed the procedures regarding embalming of dead bodies and handing them over to the family members.

    Speaking to reporters, Mandaviya said more than 1,000 people were injured in the terrible train accident and their treatment was underway.

    Over 100 patients need critical care and for their treatment, expert doctors from different hospitals, including Delhi AIIMS, Lady Hardinge Hospital and RML Hospital along with modern equipment and medicines will arrive in Odisha through a special plane of the Air Force in some time, he said.

    “We had a detailed discussion and prepared a working plan on which expert doctor can assist which patient,” the Minister said.

    “Special treatment of the critical patients will start so that we can save a greater number of people,” he added.

    The disastrous train accident has claimed 288 lives so far while over 1,000 people sustained injuries.

  • Odisha CM announces free bus service to Kolkata after Coromandel train accident

    Odisha CM announces free bus service to Kolkata after Coromandel train accident

    Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has announced free bus service to Kolkata from Puri, Bhubaneswar, and Cuttack. The free service will start today and will continue till the restoration of normal train service on the Balasore route.

    In a tweet, the State Information and Public Relations Department said, “Hon’ble CM Sri Naveen Patnaik has announced free bus service to Kolkata from Puri Bhubaneswar & Cuttack from today. It will continue till the restoration of normal train service on the Balasore route. Daily around 50 buses provide transport service to Kolkata.”

    Earlier, Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said that the root cause of the Coromandel train accident has been identified. The restoration process is underway. He also informed that the restoration of the track will be completed today.

    “We will try to restore the track today. All bodies have been removed. Our target is to finish the restoration work by Wednesday morning so that trains can start running on this track,” Ashwini Vaishnaw said.

    It is pertinent to note here that 288 people lost their lives in the tragic Coromandel train accident on Friday evening. 1,175 passengers were left injured.

    As per the report total of 1175 injured persons were admitted to various government and private hospitals. Out of the total, 793 have been discharged after treatment. Currently, 382 passengers are now undergoing treatment in various government and private hospitals. The condition of two of them is said to be critical.

  • Train accident: Check list of passengers undergoing treatment at hospitals, photos of deceased uploaded on these websites

    Train accident: Check list of passengers undergoing treatment at hospitals, photos of deceased uploaded on these websites

    Bhubaneswar: Odisha government has uploaded the list of the injured passengers, who are undergoing treatment at different hospitals after the train accident in Balasore, on different websites with the aim to facilitate their identification.

    The State government has also uploaded the photos of the deceased persons to help their family members to identify them.

    The lists of the passengers undergoing treatment at different hospitals and photos of the deceased persons have been uploaded on three different websites (srcodisha.nic.in, https://bmc.gov.in, https://osdma.org).

    However, as the images posted, given the nature of the accident, are disturbing, children have been advised not to view these images and the viewers’ discretion may be exercised.

    Besides, none (Media/Individual/Firms etc.) shall reproduce/publish and use the images without prior written approval of Special Relief Commissioner (SRC).

    Click on the links given below to visit directly to the official website and see the list of passengers undergoing treatment at hospitals and photos of deceased person:

    srcodisha.nic.in
    https://bmc.gov.in
    https://osdma.org
    Earlier, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) issued a helpline number for relatives of the people who were killed in the train accident at Bahanaga railway station.

    According to BMC commissioner Vijay Amruta Kulange, 170 bodies have been kept in different hospitals of Bhubaneswar and the helpline number has been issued to facilitate family/friends/relatives of deceased people and people stranded in the tragic train accident.

    The helpline number is 1929. People can make phone calls round the clock or visit the BMC-ICOMC tower in Satya Nagar area of Bhubaneswar to get information about the deceased persons.