A man and a married woman who were allegedly in a relationship were found dead on a railway track today, the police said.
According to the family members, Surendra (25) and Ramkali Pal (23) left the house on the pretext of defecating on Friday evening. They are were found on the tracks near Ken river in the morning, senior police official Alok Mishra said.
While the woman was married in June, the man was not married. The bodies have been sent for post-mortem, Mr Mishra said.
Various Railway Recruitment Boards (RRBs) have released the RRB JE result for the first stage Computer-Based Test (CBT) held in May and June months of this year. The results have been released separately on various portals of RRBs like RRB Bhopal, RRB Guwahati, RRB Jammu, RRB Bangalore and RRB Patna. Along with the RRB JE results, the Boards have also released the score cards of the first stage CBT. Next process in the JE recruitment is the second stage CBT.
According to the schedule released along with the RRB JE result, the second stage CBT will be held from August 28 to September 1 in five days-time.
The RRBs are conducting recruitment for the posts of Depot Material Superintendant (DMS) and Chemical and Metallurgical Assistant (CMA) along with the Junior Engineer or JE recruitment.
RRB JE result 2019: Schedule for second stage CBT
Candidates who have been shortlisted through the RRB JE results will be allowed to appear in the second stage. RRB JE second stage CBT will be held on the schedule given here:
Viewing of the exam city and date intimation begins on: August 17, 2018
Downloading of Free Train Travel Authority for SC/ST Candidates (This is only to make travel arrangements in train and not an e-Call letter): August 17, 2018
Download of RRB JE admit card for second stage: 4 days prior to the exam
Activation of Mock Link for second stage CBT: August 17
Schedule of second stage CBT: August 28 to September 1
Candidates may login with their credentials on the dates mentioned here through the link to be provided on the official websites of RRBs for knowing their exam city, date, session, downloading Free Train Travel Authority (for SC/ST candidates only) and RRB JE admit card.
RRB JE result 2019: CBT examination scheme
Duration of the second stage CBT will be 120 minutes (160 minutes for eligible PwBD candidates accompanied with scribe) and there will be a total of 150 questions. Detailed section wise marks and syllabus has been published on the official notification released on the RRB portals on December 29, 2018 at para 13.2. The questions will be of Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ). Negative marking will be applied to 1/3rd for every incorrect answer.
Samjhauta Express, the bilateral train service between India and Pakistan, reached Old Delhi railway station nearly 5 hours after its scheduled arrival time. This is because the train departed for Delhi from Attari with 117 passengers in the early hours of Friday after a delay of around five hours.
The Samjhauta Express train was supposed to leave at 8 pm but was delayed due to immigration check.
The Samjhauta Express train with 76 Indian and 41 Pakistani nationals departed from Attari at around 1 am, chief Public Relations Officer (CPRO) of Northern Railways said.
Following heightened tensions between India and Pakistan in the wake of the abrogation of Article 370, which accorded a special status to Jammu and Kashmir, Islamabad unilaterally decided to suspend the train services on its side on Thursday.
However, Indian Railways clarified that the train service has not yet been suspended but Pakistan authorities refused to send their crew to India citing security concern.
The Samjhauta Express was standing at the Wagah side of the border in Pakistan with around 110 passengers. An Indian engine brought the train from Wagah to Attari.
The Samjhauta Express, commonly called the friendship express, is a bi-weekly train – running on Thursday and Monday – between Delhi and Attari in India and Lahore in Pakistan. Services began in 1976 under the Simla Agreement signed between the two countries.
The word Samjhauta means “agreement” in both Hindi and Urdu.
Last time, the operations of Samjhauta Express were suspended on February 28, following the Pulwama terror attack that was carried out by Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) that killed 40 Indian soldiers on February 14. However, services resumed later.
In a humanitarian gesture, an autorickshaw driver in Mumbai drove his vehicle on to the Virar railway station platform to help a woman who went into premature labour.
The driver was identified as Sagar Kamlakar Gawad, 34, a resident of Dongarpada in Virar
According to police, the incident occurred on Sunday morning when a seven-months pregnant woman and her husband were travelling in the compartment reserved for disabled persons. Due to delay in services caused by incessant rains in the area, the train had halted at the station when the woman started developing labour pain.
“Seeing his wife’s condition, the husband started panicking and rushed out of the compartment to ask for help. He found Gawad, whose auto was parked in the space allotted by Western Railway (WR) right next to platform number two. He urged Gawad to help him, following which, he brought his autorickshaw on the platform and rode towards Sanjeevani Hospital in Virar,” said police inspector Praveen Kumar Yadav, Virar RPF.
Sagar Kamlakar Gawad was charged under Sections 154 (rash travelling or negligent act) and 159 (disobedience of drivers) of the Railway Act, 1989.
Railway recruitment boards (RRB) will release the answer key for the computer based test held for paramedical category posts. As per the latest notification released by the RRBs on the paramedical category recruitment, the answer keys will be released on August 5. Candidates who took the exam can download the answer keys along with the question paper and response sheet from the official website of the RRBs. In addition to this, candidates can file objections against the official answer key, if they find any.
In order to file objections, candidates have to pay Rs. 50 per objection submitted. “In case the objection raised is found to be correct, the fee paid against such valid objection will be refunded to the candidate. The refund will be made to the bank account number from which the candidate has made the online payment,” said the RRBs.
The objection window will close on August 8. “Candidates are advised to raise objection(s), if any, well before the final date and time i.e., 08.08.2019, 23.59 hrs. after which no representation from the candidates on the questions/options/keys etc., will be entertained,” the notification added.
With not just one but four major recruitment announced this year and Junior Engineer recruitment announced at the cusp of last year, Railway Recruitment Boards’ hands are full. The recruitment process for paramedical posts has already begun with computer-based tests starting on July 19. However, any updates on the exam dates for other recruitment are yet to be released.
Reports suggest that the computer-based test for RRC Group D posts will be conducted around September-October 2019. The application status for RRC Group D 2019 recruitment has already been released.
The tentative exam dates for RRB NTPC and RRB Ministerial and Isolated categories posts was between June and September. With July almost over and the computer-based test for paramedical posts concluded, it is highly likely that RRBs would announce the examination date for one or both remaining recruitment.
About the RRB JE recruitment that was announced in December 2018, RRBs have completed the computer-based test process, released provisional key, invited objection, and have released the final answer key after resolution of the objections received. The result for the RRB JE 2018 exam will be released shortly.
Candidates who qualify in the first stage CBT for RRB JE recruitment will have to appear for 2nd stage CBT. The details for the second stage CBT for RRB JE recruitment is expected to release alongside the result for first stage CBT.
The Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail (MAHSR), also known as Bullet Train Project will be completed by 2023, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal said in the Rajya Sabha today.
In a written reply, Piyush Goyal said that the bullet train project that spans across 508 kilometres, has been sanctioned by the Government.
“This project is being executed by a special purpose vehicle namely National High-Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL), with the financial and technical assistance from the Government of Japan. The total estimated cost of the project is Rs. 1,08,000 crore,” he said.
So far, the expenditure of Rs. 3226.8 crore has been incurred on the project up to June 2019, he said in his statement.
Asked when the government will expand the bullet train network all over the country, Mr Goyal said, “Bullet Train or High-Speed Rail Projects are highly capital and technology-intensive, and therefore, their proposals for other sections are subject to technical feasibility, financial and economic viability and availability of funding”.
A special police team has been formed to identify and trace the killers in the wake of three murders in the city since Tuesday, an officer said. Two police inspectors and 11 constables are in the team, senior police official Akhileswar Singh said today.
The first body was recovered from Ranihat Bridge on Tuesday morning. Two bodies, one from near SCB Medical College and another from neighbouring OMP market, were recovered on Wednesday morning.
The throats of all the three bodies were slit and their heads were found to be smashed with a heavy object, he said.
The mutilated bodies and untraced killers have sparked rumours of the involvement of a suspected ”stoneman” behind the murders.
The police has stepped up night patrolling and the homeless are being told to sleep at shelter homes, Mr Singh said.
The Bhubaneswar-Cuttack Commissionerate Police also plans to take several steps to help prevent more such murders.
The Government Railway Police (GRP) has been alerted to remain vigilant as many sleep in the open in station areas.
On June 28, two persons were found to have been killed in the same manner in Paradip, near
Nine persons were killed by a suspected ”stoneman” in Berhampur in 1998.
The government on Thursday told the Rajya Sabha that there has been a reduction in number of vacancies in various departments of the central government. Replying to supplementaries during Question Hour, Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Jitendra Singh said filling up of vacancies in the government was a continuous process and efforts were being made to reduce them further. “The government is already working in this direction. If you go by the vacancy figures, the percentage of the vacancy strength has been constantly reducing over the past five to six years.
“When this government came in, in the year 2013-14, ending March 31, 2014 before the government took over, the vacancy percentage was 16.2 per cent. The successive year it is 11.57 per cent. Then in 2015-16 it is 11.52 per cent, then in 2016-17 it is 11.36 per cent. In fact, the record is better in the central government than many of the states,” he said.
Mr Singh said the record in the central government was far better than Karnataka where he said it had gone down from 27.3 per cent in 2014-15 to 32.56 per cent in 2018-19.
He also informed the House that steps to fill up almost 4 lakh vacancies in central government departments was underway and would be filled up by 2020.
The minister also pointed out that the Congress had claimed in its manifesto for the recent Lok Sabha polls that it will fill up the 4 lakh vacancies in the central government departments and the PSUs.
But, he said, the party did not mention that the process for filling up the vacancies had already started during the last NDA regime.
Mr Singh said there is a total vacancy of 6,83,823 in all departments of central government, out of which almost half 3,89,069, almost 4 lakh, were already in the process of being filled up in the beginning of the year.
“All of 4 lakh vacancies in central government and PSUs, judiciary and Parliament will be filled up before March 2020.
But the catch is that the process of filling the vacancies had already been in the process. So we are already pro-active in filling up of vacancies,” the minister said.
In his written reply, the minister said vacancies in Central Government Ministries/Departments, their attached and subordinate offices arise due to retirement, resignation, voluntary retirement, promotion, transfer, transfer on deputation, termination of service, dismissal from service, death etc.
Based on the vacancies reported by the user Departments, the SSC has started recruitment process to fill up 1,05,338 posts during the year 2019 and 2020, the minister said.
“During 2017-18, the Centralised Employment Notifications (CENs) for 1,27,573 combined vacancies of various Group C and Level-1 posts were notified by the Ministry of Railways For new and future vacancies to arise in two years’ time, another five CENs covering 1,56,138 vacancies of various Group C and Level-1 posts have been issued in 2018-19.
“Thus, recruitment process to fill up 3,89,069 vacancies has already started,” the minister said.
To reduce the recruitment cycle, some recruiting agencies have switched over to computer based on-line test and interview for non-gazetted posts has been discontinued, he said in a written reply.
The minister also said provisional appointment is being made pending verification of antecedents of the candidates.