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C M Y K $ % RNI Regn. No. MPENG/2004/13703, Regd. No. L-2/BPLON/41/2006-2008 +)&*+,%$-./ &#&' (&)** ++,*- ;O N; : : ==;;! N:=O ) =;;)>? !=) : (6*45@++7% AB@ C%$".",, %"2 " 0 1" 0-2 3/45 !"!#$ %&$ '() *& ! "$% !& pital. Officials said the toll way authorities to slow down had taken place. “I am camp- : ; may be higher. the trains near this Phatak ing at the hospitals to supervise At least 300 people were during Dussehra, but no one rescue and relief...to ensure he occasion of Ravan dahan watching ‘Ravana dahan’ at a has listened,” a local said. that people get the bodies of Tto mark the end of Durga ground near the tracks. Wails and cries of people their near and dear ones. I will Puja festivities, turned out to be As the effigy was lit and the filled the air as friends and rel- camp here the entire night to a heartrending event in fireworks went off, a section of atives frantically looked for see that affected people get Amritsar when a speeding the crowd started retreating their near and dear ones. some succour.” train mowed down around towards the tracks where a Severed bodies, including of Navjot, also a former MLA, 52revellers who were gathered large number of people were many children, were still lying wondered how train could on the tracks to watch the ten- already standing to watch the on the accident site hours after move at a speed and there was headed effigy go in flames event, officials said. However, the incident with angry people no mechanism to warn railway across the railway crossing. two trains arrived from the not allowing authorities to authorities about the gathering. The revellers did not hear the opposite direction at the same remove them. Eyewitnesses said there approaching trains in the deaf- time giving little opportunity to It was heart rending sight were no barricades near the ening burst of crackers. people to escape, they said. as the dismembered body parts railway tracks and the people While around 52 were Several people were laid strewn on the blood- were forced to see the feared dead in the gruesome mowed down by one of the soaked ground. Many bodies Dusshehra ceremony by stand- accident, many more were trains, they said. could not be identified. People ing on tracks. The effigy of injured. The train was coming Eyewitnesses told The shouted slogans against local Ravana was being burnt from Jalandhar to Amritsar Pioneer that when the effigy MLA Navjot Kaur Sidhu, who around 200 feet away from the when the incident occurred in was burnt the deafening noise was present as chief guest dur- railway track. the evening at Joda Phatak. of the crackers drowned the ing the event. Punjab Chief Minister “There are more than 50 sound of the approaching train. She later said she rushed to Capt Amarinder Singh rushed casualties. We are evacuating . “No one heard the train com- the hospital immediately after to Amritsar to personally people, injured are being taken ing and it was running at quite the incident. supervised relief and rescue to the hospital”, said SS a speed,” said Sukhjinder Singh Another eyewitness efforts. He has asked all Shrivastava, Commissioner of an eyewitness. blamed the organisers of the Government and private hos- Police, Amritsar, moments after “I have lost my minor Dussehra committee for sheer pitals to stay open. “My the tragedy, indicating the mag- child. I want him back,” an negligence. “Were they not Government will give 5 lakh nitude of the tragedy. inconsolable mother could be aware that a train passed from to kin of each deceased and free Sub Divisional Magistrate, heard. the track every day,” asked treatment to injured in Amritsar I, Rajesh Sharma said “Several times we have Pawan Kumar, the eyewitness. Government and private hos- 50 bodies have been found and been requesting the authorities She later told reporters pitals. District authorities have at least 50 injured have been and local leaders telling them that after she left the spot she been mobilised on war footing,” * $ "+ ! " # admitted to a government hos- to take up the issue with rail- got a call that such an accident he tweeted. !""$ $%%&"'' Nilakkal: Amid the huge ()"$'O""' "%+ protest after the Sabarimala , %"-%% verdict, the Travancore ." ", $% " Devaswom Board (TDB) on 0 1,")"" $"" Friday decided to file an appeal ""' "2$ $ against the apex court’s order of " .," allowing women of every age to $'+", %,'""- $ enter the historical shrine. %%$"% The Board also said it is $""" "%$" ready for any sort of "%$,""% compromise to end this $+$, % extreme scenario. %" "- “We have decided to appeal against the Supreme wo women, including A TV Court verdict that !" Tjournalist in her late 20s, allowed women of all age $%&$ "'"3$" + nearly made it inside the groups to enter the Sabarimala , % ".""!" Sabarimala temple on Friday Temple,” TDB President A 56%%"$'" under heavy police security, but Padmakumar informed the + $$$ * ' - - $ . ! " %"- $%"$". they had to retreat amid massive media. Agencies %$%.$% 2$ protests by Ayyappa devotees , % "2"% and the head priest’s threat to ".""+$%$.. close the temple if any woman of , %'27- the barred age group of 10-50 P years entered the premises of the ' sanctum sanctorum. ( One of the two women )* 866,, wore police uniform and helmet 95"' $" "" " ! " # in an apparent bid to misguide $"%$" the protestors. The attempt by % "$2%'' the women to go to the temple who trekked through the forests leading to the premises of the Gram (μgm-3). air is abnormal. Notably, the ed by carnage in stocks of ,"% followed a recent Supreme Court up to Pamba, five km down the temple). System of Air Quality and permissible limits of both the Lhousing finance sectors and " .' ""2" ruling allowing anybody to enter temple, also retreated following The women agreed to return ir quality in the national Weather Forecasting and pollutants are 100 and 60 micro major sell-off in shares of mar- . +, %"!"- $ the temple negating the tradition the intense protests. as, first, the police said they did ACapital on Friday has Research (SAFAR), a unit of cubic per gram. ket leader Reliance Industries as " .' "+ barring women of menstrual age As the woman journalist and not want to take them to the recorded “very poor” as Ministry of Earth Sciences Marking the red to air well as heavy correction in IT $"-%%.$ group from entering the premis- the other woman Sannidhanam, the temple com- National Ambient Air Quality (MoES), has forecast air qual- quality on NAAQI, the SAFAR and banking sectors, the BSE , %+$. +" .$$ es of the celibate Lord Ayyappa. reached the hilltop, a massive plex, by using force against the Index (NAAQI) marked the ity “very poor” till Sunday. in its advisory cautioned peo- sensex shed 464 points or 1.33 2+$"%' The police bundobust was a gathering of devotees devotees protesting against their index “red”. Concentrations of both the ple to avoid all physical activ- per cent to close at 34,315.63 "2"""" $"'" sequel to the apex court order to blocked them at Valiya entry. Second, the ‘tantri’ (head The values of both the pollutants (PM10, 2.5) for next ity outdoor and move activities points. Friday’s market move- "2 %" ." provide protection to such Nadappandhal, the queue priest) declared that he would pollutants — Particulate Matter three days are — 270 -125, 297- indoors. ment is worrisome because $"$ women wanting to go up on the complex located a few close the temple if the (PM) 10 and PM 2.5 were 138 and 311-144 (μgm-3). Also, asthma suffering peo- stocks saw a free fall despite " . ' $" pilgrimage. metres down the holy ‘pathinet- women entered the sanctum recorded at 8 pm 270 and 125 This further means the ple have been suggested to strengthening of Indian Rupees. "%$$'2 ,$- A third woman of 46 years, tampadi’ (the 18 sacred steps sanctorum. respectively in Micro Cubic Per concentration of pollutants in keep relief medicine handy. Detailed report on P11 & '() # ! " from October to December mainly affects the five regions ! ! "# " he northeast monsoon is in the southern peninsula. Tlikely to arrive in the south- Officials said that unlike CBI. ern peninsula - coastal Andhra southwest monsoon, there is no Earlier, the CAG had Pradesh, Rayalaseema, Tamil official onset date for northeast he Enforcement detailed the loss to exchequer Nadu, Kerala and south interi- monsoon, which sets in one go TDirectorate has slapped due to the big purchase of or Karnataka - within the next over the region, while the for- money laundering charges in flights for Air India and some of 24 to 48 hours. While it brings mer sets in place by place. several cases of irregularities in which were sold to private air- heavy rainfall in these regions, According to private connection with the decision lines at cheap rates. its deficiency may lead to weather forecaster Skymet, the related to Air India during the the Finance Ministry and the The other two cases relate drought or drought-like con- withdrawal of southwest mon- UPA regime. The move comes Civil Aviation Ministry during to surrender of profitable routes ditions in the southern parts of soon 2018 commenced very in the wake of CBI FIRs the regime of P Chidambaram and timings of Air India to the country. late on September 28. “In fact, against Air India and other and Praful Patel. favour national and interna- According to officials, the southwest monsoon started Government officials of that Two cases are related to the tional private players which weather conditions are retreating at a rapid pace and period. The controversial deci- controversial merger of Air allegedly caused a “huge” loss to favourable for the arrival of at that point it seemed that this sions include aircraft pur- India and Indian Airlines and the State-run carrier and alleged northeast monsoon and with- would be the quickest with- India within a week.