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Indian Express
25-06-2025
- Indian Express
Mentally challenged man held for trying to burn plastic waste on railway track in Tripura
The Tripura police on Wednesday detained a mentally challenged man for allegedly trying to set fire to plastic waste on a railway track at Bishalgarh in Sepahijala district. His identity is yet to be known. The police said the man was seen trying to set fire to some chips packets on the railway track at the Bishalgarh railway station when some locals caught him and handed him over to the police. 'The person is mentally challenged. We have registered a general diary entry on this incident,' said an officer of the Bishalgarh police station. No train service has been affected because of the incident, officials said. Several Demu trains and the Sabroom-Sealdah Kanchanjungha Express use this stretch. However, the express train was not running on the route as all long-distance train services out of Tripura have been suspended since Monday, after boulders and a landmass fell on the railway track in the New Haflong-Jatinga Lumpur section, allegedly because of improper road repair work undertaken by the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI). The Northeast Frontier Railway has cancelled the Guwahati-Silchar Express and Dullabcherra-Guwahati Express while short-terminating six other trains–the Sealdah-Silchar Kanchanjunga Express, Lokmanya Tilak Express plying between Agartala and Mumbai, Tejas Express connecting Agartala with New Delhi, Kolkata-Agartala Garib Rath Express, Cherlapally-Silchar Express, and the Silchar-Naharlagun Express. The Silchar-New Delhi PSK Express was rescheduled owing to the disruption.
NDTV
24-06-2025
- Climate
- NDTV
Trains Halted, Highway Closed After Massive Landslide In Assam's Dima Hasao
Guwahati: Train and road connectivity between the Assam towns of Haflong and Silchar has been severely disrupted following a landslide near the Jatinga-Lampur section. The landslide, reportedly triggered by ongoing road repairs, has forced the suspension of train services over the Lumding-Badarpur hill section and prompted a complete halt to vehicular movement along National Highway 27. Train services to Tripura, Manipur and Southern Assam remain disrupted following the landslides. Officials said that slope failure occurred downstream between the highway and the adjacent railway track due to repair work undertaken by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI). Soil and debris have slid onto the railway alignment, and water has begun flowing directly onto the tracks. With the site declared unsafe, the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) halted train operations through the section on Monday evening as a precautionary measure. The NFR's Lumding Division has called on NHAI to immediately carry out protective measures and deploy technical experts to prevent further damage to the critical infrastructure. Meanwhile, railway teams have begun clearing the debris from the tracks. Multiple trains have either been cancelled or short-terminated due to the disruption. Among the cancellations on June 23 are the Guwahati-Silchar Express, Rangiya-Silchar Express, Guwahati-Dullabcherra Express, and Silchar-Rangiya Express. Services cancelled for June 24 include the Dullabcherra-Guwahati Express and Naharlagun-Silchar Special. Short-terminated trains include: Silchar-Naharlagun Special at New Harangajao Charlapalli-Silchar Express at Lumding Kolkata-Agartala Garib Rath Express at Guwahati Agartala-Anand Vihar Tejas Express at Badarpur Lokmanya Tilak-Agartala Express at Guwahati Sealdah-Silchar Kanchanjungha Express at Lumding In response to the situation, the Dima Hasao District Administration has imposed a travel ban on the Haflong-Silchar stretch of NH-27 under Section 34(C) of the Disaster Management Act, 2005, citing the risk of continued slope movement. Travellers have been advised to avoid the route until further notice. The administration has directed both NHAI and the railway authorities to send technical teams for site assessment and stabilisation. While restoration efforts are underway, officials have yet to announce when normal services will resume.
