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‘Headphone-factor’ on the rise in traffic accidents across the world

By Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay Sun, Feb 05, 2012 2:42AM UTC View Comments

The recent spate of accidents leading to fatalities among the youth of India has one common strand: all were wearing headphones or earphones while walking on the roads or crossing railway tracks – thereby unable to hear the approaching vehicle or train. An assistant professor at New Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences has...

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Nizamuddin railway station horror – let’s not blame just the system

By Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay Sat, Nov 19, 2011 3:24AM UTC View Comments

Anyone with a modicum of sensitivity should consider herself or himself extremely fortunate if they did not witness Wednesday night’s horrific incident at New Delhi’s Hazrat Nizamuddin railway station. Scores of people watched helplessly as life ebbed out of a 36-year-old man after he slipped between the footboard of a train and the platform. He...

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Can James Bond resurrect Indian Railways?

By Sriram Vadlamani Tue, Sep 06, 2011 8:45PM UTC View Comments

Life works in mysterious ways. I wasn’t surprised that Mayawati sends a chopper to Mumbai to get her sandals. I wasn’t even surprised that Mayawati has chosen to shoot the messenger and called WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange deranged after a cable branded her a “paranoid dictator”. These things happen in India and we get used...

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Indian railways will accept SMS as a ticket on mobile, saves some paper

By Sriram Vadlamani Sun, Jul 10, 2011 4:21PM UTC View Comments

Indian railways will be accepting a text message (SMS) on your mobile phone as a valid ticket. Passengers don’t have to carry paper printouts of their eTickets any more. West Bengal chief minister , and former railway minister, Mamata Banerjee has launched this public friendly facility in Kolkata. The news also talks about mobile ticketing...

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