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Five railway employees,  Ramesh, Ram Rattan, Pooran, Ajay and Radhey, working on maintainance of Ghaziabad railway tracks , couldn’t see two trains speeding towards them and got hit and were killed at the spot. At around 11.10 a.m. “They were doing maintenance work on the tracks,” Anant Swarup, chief public relations officer of Northern Railways, stated when the accident occurred.

“Five gang men were engaged in repairing track number three, when they heard the sound of an approaching train. As the visibility was low due to fog, the workers thought the train was coming on track number three and they jumped on to track number four to save themselves,” an official was heard saying.

“Unfortunately there was a train – Dehradun-Delhi Jan Shatabdi Express – coming on track number four. With trains on both tracks, the workers had no chance of getting away and were crushed under the two trains,” he added.

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Extending a hand of friendship towards Pakistan, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh urged the neighbour to carry it “forward” and show “sincerity and good faith”. As I have said many times before, we will not be found wanting in our response,” Manmohan Singh said while addressing the public at Anantnag where he, Sonia Gandhi and other VVIPs flagged off the new train service that connects South Kashmir to North. He stressed that such a step is vital to the interests of both the people of India and Pakistan.

PM was however, firm in his stand of disagreement over Pakistan’s careless curbing of terrorism directed at India. “For a productive dialogue it is essential that terrorism must be brought under control,” he said in Urdu.

The PM believes that a majority of Pakistani actually want good co-relations and support from their Indian counter-parts and a lasting peace, something which the PM stressed, is reflected by Indians as well.

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“Today I felt for the first time that things have changed here since the prime minister and the UPA (United Progressive Alliance) chairperson would not be addressing people from behind a bullet-proof screen,” Omar Abdullah said at a press meet after Manmohan Singh and Congress Chairperson Sonia Gandhi decided not to use a bullet proof while flagging off a new train service linking south Kashmir with Srinagar and other places in north.

Welcoming the change, Omar told the media that the situation is perhaps less critical in his state and the need now is concentrating on strengthening both political and economic scenario of J&K.

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The birth place of Lord Krishna turned into a nightmare world for unfortunate travellers of the  Goa Express after the train collided with the stationary Mewar Express at the Mathura city in Uttar Pradesh, around 55km from Agra, killing 23 passangers on spot and injuring 20 others. Several were trapped in the two rear-end crushed bogies. “The condition of some of those injured is critical and unstable,” confirmed Rajesh Kumar, senior divisional commercial manager, involved in rescue work on the accident site.

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Trying to dispel fears of death figures rising, PR officer Bhupendra Dhillon to DRM assured the media that rescue work “is progressing at a fast pace and the situation should normalise within a few hours.”

Despite repeated assurances, reports continued to flood in of delayed response from the involved authorities. Saurabh Jain, one of the passengers, retorted: “We could feel electric shocks coming from compartments at the rear of the train. But the authorities reacted very late.”

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