Oxygen Express: Indian Railways brings oxygen relief to 15 states in 50 days
India | June 13, 2021 17:28 ISTOxygen relief by 421 Oxygen Expresses reached to 15 states namely Uttarakhand, Karnataka, Maharashtra and others.
Oxygen relief by 421 Oxygen Expresses reached to 15 states namely Uttarakhand, Karnataka, Maharashtra and others.
To boost Railways network in the country, Union Cabinet on June 09 announced to provide 5 megahertz spectrum in 700 MHz band.
Northern Railways on Monday released a list of trains that will remain canceled due to maintenance work.
On June 5 and June 6, Indian Railways have announced to resume 24 passenger trains that were earlier suspended.
A Railway Ministry official said that 359 Oxygen Expresses have completed their journey so far since April 24.
The driver informed the Bagdogra station and was told to get the train there at a slow speed, officials said.
He said that 284 Oxygen Express have completed their journey so far and brought relief to various states.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Tuesday predicted that the cyclone Yaas is going to intensity into a 'very severe cyclonic storm' in the next 12 hours.
Sushil Kumar was arrested for his involvement in the death of a 23-year-old wrestler at Chhatrasal Stadium in Delhi.
The Northern Railway is set to suspend wrestler Sushil Kumar following his arrest by the Delhi Police in a murder case, a spokesperson said on Monday.
The Indian Railways deployed a train with 12 COVID-19 isolation coaches at Moradabad Junction on May 09.
Forty-seven 'Oxygen Express' trains have completed their journey so far, it added, news agency ANI reported.
West Bengal is the newest among several states which have made it mandatory for passengers to carry negative RT-PCR tests for arrival into the state.
In view of the second wave of coronavirus, the Indian Railways on Thursday cancelled 28 trains including Duronto-Rajdhani-Shatabdi and Vande Bharat. The Northern Railway has decided to cancel these special trains till further orders as Covid cases continue to rise in the country.
In the wake of the rising number of Covid -19 cases in Maharashtra, the Western Railway has prepared fully equipped Isolation coaches for Covid-19 patients in Palghar. There are 21 such coaches available at Palghar railway station. Oxygen facility is also available and each coach will accommodate 16 patients.
Taking note of the steep surge in COVID 19 cases, Northern Railways has decided to keep some trains from Delhi NCR cancelled for another two days
At least 44 trains of Ratlam division to and from Mumbai, Delhi, Lingampalli, Nagpur, Gandhinagar, Amritsar, Puri and other cities have been cancelled due to a huge drop in the number of passengers amid rise in COVID-19 cases, the railway's public relations official said.
In Mumbai, railway passengers are asked to be in home isolation for 14 days, and for that they are getting stamped on their left hand with a seal saying "home quarantined".
Since Apr 19, the railways' Oxygen Express trains have delivered a cumulative 510 tonnes of oxygen to UP, Maharashtra, Delhi and M
Madhya Pradesh on Monday reported 12,686 coronavirus cases, taking its tally to over five lakh, while Maharashtra reported 48,700 cases taking the count of infections in the state to 43,43,727.
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