More than three dozen elephants have been killed after being hit by trains between Siliguri and Alipurduar railway stations in the North East Frontier Railway in the past eight years and yet neither the state government nor the railway board seems to have an answer to stop the rising cases of jumbo deaths on train tracks.

Once a killer track, Rajaji Park has seen no elephant deaths in six years, writes prernasinghbindra

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Saubhadra Chatterji / New Delhi October 27, 2008, 0:35 IST

Although armed with the

Members of PETA recreate a scene outside Rail Bhawan in New Delhi to highlight how elephants are killed in rail accidents.

KOCHI: District Collector M Beena said that around 300 land owners from Vadakkumbhagam, Mattoor and Chelamattom villages are expected to attend the meeting of the District Level Purchase Committee, formed for leading land acquisition for the Angamaly-Sabari Rail route.

Taking a U-turn, the Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh today decided to return the land that was earmarked for a rail coach factory in Rae Bareli, the Lok Sabha constituency of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi. This comes a week after the land allotment was cancelled.

The first monorail corridor in the country will finally see the light of day, but at a cost higher than what was expected. The executive committee of the Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority (MMRDA) gave the green signal to the of 19.5km corridor from Jacob Circle to Chembur.

Press Trust Of India / Lucknow October 14, 2008, 1:08 IST

A day after the Mayawati government cancelled the land allotment for a railway project in Sonia Gandhi