$ % < $" "%2-%' " , "."'-%' " , SIDISrtVUU@IB!&!!"&#S@B9IV69P99I !%! %! ' -)&*-/%$012 &#&, )&*'+ #&'( ;O N; : !: N:EO ) E;;)=F &= >! ?": (+*,5@--.% @AB ?%$".",, %"2 3 4" 305 1' ! "$% !& pital. Officials said the toll way authorities to slow down ing at the hospitals to supervise : ; may be higher. the trains near this Phatak rescue and relief...to ensure At least 300 people were during Dussehra, but no one that people get the bodies of he occasion of Ravan dahan watching ‘Ravana dahan’ at a has listened,” a local said. their near and dear ones. I will Tto mark the end of Durga ground near the tracks. Wails and cries of people camp here the entire night to Puja festivities, turned out to be As the effigy was lit and the filled the air as friends and rel- see that affected people get a heartrending event in fireworks went off, a section of atives frantically looked for some succour.” Amritsar when a speeding the crowd started retreating their near and dear ones. Navjot, also a former MLA, train mowed down around towards the tracks where a Severed bodies, including of wondered how train could 52revellers who were gathered large number of people were many children, were still lying move at a speed and there was on the tracks to watch the ten- already standing to watch the on the accident site hours after no mechanism to warn railway headed effigy go in flames event, officials said. However, the incident with angry people authorities about the gathering. across the railway crossing. two trains arrived from the not allowing authorities to Eyewitnesses said there The revellers did not hear the opposite direction at the same remove them. were no barricades near the approaching trains in the deaf- time giving little opportunity to It was heart rending sight railway tracks and the people ening burst of crackers. people to escape, they said. as the dismembered body parts were forced to see the While around 52 were Several people were laid strewn on the blood- Dusshehra ceremony by stand- feared dead in the gruesome mowed down by one of the soaked ground. Many bodies ing on tracks. The effigy of accident, many more were trains, they said. could not be identified. People Ravana was being burnt injured. The train was coming Eyewitnesses told The shouted slogans against local around 200 feet away from the from Jalandhar to Amritsar Pioneer that when the effigy MLA Navjot Kaur Sidhu, who railway track. when the incident occurred in was burnt the deafening noise was present as chief guest dur- Punjab Chief Minister the evening at Joda Phatak. of the crackers drowned the ing the event. She later said she Capt Amarinder Singh rushed “There are more than 50 sound of the approaching train. rushed to the hospital imme- to Amritsar to personally casualties. We are evacuating . “No one heard the train com- diately after the incident. supervised relief and rescue people, injured are being taken ing and it was running at quite Another eyewitness efforts. to the hospital”, said SS a speed,” said Sukhjinder Singh blamed the organisers of the He has asked all Shrivastava, Commissioner of an eyewitness. Dussehra committee for sheer Government and private hos- Police, Amritsar, moments after “I have lost my minor negligence. “Were they not pitals to stay open. “My the tragedy, indicating the mag- child. I want him back,” an aware that a train passed from Government will give 5 lakh nitude of the tragedy. inconsolable mother could be the track every day,” asked to kin of each deceased and free Sub Divisional Magistrate, heard. Pawan Kumar, the eyewitness. treatment to injured in Amritsar I, Rajesh Sharma said “Several times we have She later told reporters Government and private hos- 50 bodies have been found and been requesting the authorities that after she left the spot she pitals. District authorities have at least 50 injured have been and local leaders telling them got a call that such an accident been mobilised on war footing,” . 2 &' admitted to a government hos- to take up the issue with rail- had taken place. “I am camp- 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 Court verdict that !" TTV journalist in her late allowed women of all age $%&$ "'"3$" + 20s, nearly made it inside the groups to enter the Sabarimala , % ".""!" 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Notably, the ed by carnage in stocks of ,"% The attempt by the years, who trekked through The women agreed to System of Air Quality and permissible limits of both the Lhousing finance sectors and " .' ""2" women to go to the temple the forests up to Pamba, five return as, first, the police said ir quality in the national Weather Forecasting and pollutants are 100 and 60 major sell-off in shares of mar- . +, %"!"- $ followed a recent Supreme km down the temple, also they did not want to take them ACapital on Friday has Research (SAFAR), a unit of micro cubic per gram. ket leader Reliance Industries as " .' 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Friday’s market move- "2 %" ." premises of the celibate Lord gathering of devotees priest) declared that he would pollutants — Particulate next three days are — 270 -125, indoors. Also, asthma suffering ment is worrisome because $"$ Ayyappa. blocked them at Valiya close the temple if the Matter (PM) 10 and PM 2.5 297-138 and 311-144 (μgm-3). people have been suggested to stocks saw a free fall despite " . ' $" The police bundobust was Nadappandhal, the queue women entered the sanctum were recorded at 8 pm 270 and This further means the keep relief medicine handy. strengthening of Indian Rupees. "%$$'2 ,$- a sequel to the apex court complex located a few sanctorum. 125 respectively in Micro concentration of pollutants in Detailed report on P15 / & - 01 ' ! " he northeast monsoon is the withdrawal of southwest Tlikely to arrive in the monsoon 2018 commenced ! ! "# " southern peninsula - coastal very late on September 28. Andhra Pradesh, “In fact, southwest mon- Earlier, the CAG had Rayalaseema, Tamil Nadu, soon started retreating at a detailed the loss to exchequer Kerala and south interior rapid pace and at that point it he Enforcement due to the big purchase of Karnataka - within the next 24 seemed that this would be the TDirectorate has slapped flights for Air India and some of to 48 hours. While it brings quickest withdrawal of mon- money laundering charges in which were sold to private air- heavy rainfall in these regions, soon in the last few years,” the several cases of irregularities in lines at cheap rates. its deficiency may lead to Skymet said. connection with the decision The other two cases relate drought or drought-like con- The Skymet said mon- related to Air India during the the Finance Ministry and the to surrender of profitable routes ditions in the southern parts of soon had withdrawn from UPA regime. The move comes Civil Aviation Ministry during and timings of Air India to the country. entire northwest, east and cen- in the wake of CBI FIRs the regime of P Chidambaram favour national and interna- According to officials, the tral India within a week. Not against Air India and other and Praful Patel. Two cases are tional private players which weather conditions are only this, conditions were Government officials of that related to the controversial allegedly caused a “huge” loss to favourable for the arrival of looking favourable for the period. The controversial deci- merger of Air India and Indian the State-run carrier and alleged northeast monsoon and with- early onset of northeast mon- sions include aircraft pur- Airlines and alleged irregular- wrongdoing in the purchase of drawal of southwest monsoon.