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Guwahati, June 28: The train movement over the affected portion between KM 108/6-8, via Jatinga Lumpur-New Haflong in the Lumding-Badarpur Hill Section of Lumding division will be partially restored from Sunday. Restoration efforts at the affected location are progressing rapidly to normalize train movement. Limited train operations are planned between 12:00 and 18:00 hours tomorrow (29.06.2025), with full-fledged train services expected to resume from Monday, according to a Press release. Goods trains carrying petroleum products and food grains bound for the state of Tripura and the Barak Valley will be prioritized for movement over the section. Additionally, a POL wagon currently stranded at Guwahati and scheduled for unloading at Dharmanagar, Tripura, will be dispatched as soon as the track is cleared. Following the restoration, Train No. 13175 Sealdah-Silchar (Kanchenjunga Express), which commenced its journey on 28 June, 2025, will be the first passenger train to operate on its original route through the restored section. Subsequently, Train No. 13174 Sabroom-Sealdah (Kanchenjunga Express), starting its journey on 29 June, 2025, will also be routed through the section. To facilitate the movement of stranded passengers, a special train will run from Rangiya to Agartala on 29 June, 2025. It may be noted that the section between KM 108/6-8 in the Lumding-Badarpur Hill Section was severely affected by multiple earth slips triggered by heavy rainfall. Chetan Kumar Shrivastava, General Manager of Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR), visited the site to assess the ground situation, review restoration progress and encourage the field teams. He instructed that maximum manpower and machinery be deployed to accelerate the restoration efforts and ensure early resumption of train services on this vital hill section.
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Maligaon, June 29 (MExN): The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) announced the restoration of train services over the affected Jatinga Lumpur-New Haflong stretch of the Lumding-Badarpur Hill Section, with limited train operations between 12 noon and 6 PM on June 29. Full-fledged train services will resume from June 30, informed an official statement from NFR Chief Public Relations Officer (CPRO). Following the successful restoration, the first empty goods train passed through the section and departed from New Harangajao at 10:21 AM, marking the resumption of traffic. The Sealdah-Silchar Kanche ...Read More >
Silchar: Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) president and Lok Sabha MP Gaurav Gogoi has urged PM Narendra Modi to urgently intervene in the worsening connectivity crisis of the Barak Valley, highlighting the region's continued isolation due to repeated disruptions in rail and road infrastructure.In a letter addressed to the PM on Thursday, Gogoi said the current condition of both railway and highway networks has reached a "critical low", leaving nearly 40 lakh residents of the valley stranded and disconnected from the rest of the country.Citing repeated breakdowns on the Lumding-Badarpur ...Read More >
Guwahati, June 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) After a week of disruption due to landslides, regular train services between South Assam, Tripura, Manipur, Mizoram, and the rest of the country via Guwahati fully resumed on Monday, officials said. The vital train services in the Lumding-Badarpur Hill Section of the Lumding division have been disrupted since June 23 after landslides badly affected the railway track in the mountainous areas under Assam's Dima Hasao district. A senior official of Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) said on Monday that both goods train and the passenger train are being operated ...Read More >
Silchar: As Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) grapples with the aftermath of a major landslide, senior officials are racing against time to restore services in the Lumding-Badarpur hill section. On Thursday, NFR general manager Chetan Kumar Shrivastava visited the severely affected Jatinga Lumpur stretch at km 108/7-8 to take stock of the ongoing restoration efforts.Accompanied by divisional railway manager (Lumding) Sameer Lohani, senior divisional commercial manager Amitabh Kumar Mishra, and other top railway officials, Shrivastava spent over 90 minutes at the site. He reviewed the damage and ...Read More >
Guwahati, June 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) After a week of disruption due to landslides, the train services between south Assam, Tripura, Manipur, and Mizoram and the rest of the country via Guwahati partially resumed on Sunday, officials said. The train services in the Lumding-Badarpur Hill Section of the Lumding division have been disrupted since June 23 after huge landslides badly affected the railway track in the mountainous areas under Assam's Dima Hasao district. Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) Chief Public Relations Officer (CPRO) Kapinjal Kishore Sharma said on Sunday that the first goods t ...Read More >
Assam continues to face a severe flood crisis, affecting nearly seven lakh people across 21 districts. The death toll from the first wave of floods and landslides has risen to 19, with one person missing in Cachar district. Nine major rivers, including the Brahmaputra and Barak, are flowing above danger levels, causing widespread inundation. A total of 1,494 villages across 66 revenue circles have been affected, with Sribhumi district hardest hit, impacting over 2.5 lakh people. Floodwaters have ...Read More >
Guwahati: Six days after severe landslides in Assam's Lumding-Badarpur hill section of the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) snapped vital rail connectivity, partial train services have resumed to Tripura, Manipur, Mizoram, and southern Assam. Officials reported on Sunday that limited operations are currently underway, with a full return to normalcy anticipated by Monday, June 30, 2025. Ready for a challenge? Click here to take our quiz and show off your knowledge! Notably, the disruptions in rail connectivity, triggered by heavy rainfall, primarily affected the railway section between KM 10 ...Read More >
Guwahati: Train services on the crucial Lumding-Badarpur hill section was partially restored on Sunday, Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) officials said.Train services were suspended after a massive landslide that happened on June 23 affected the Jatinga-Lampur stretch in Dima Hasao district last week.Movement of the trains were partially restored over the affected rail lines from Sunday, and full-fledged train services are expected to resume from Monday onwards.Kapinjal Kishore Sharma, NFR's chief public relations officer, said, "The NFR has announced the restoration of train services on the a ...Read More >
Guwahati, Jun 29 (PTI) The railway link to Tripura, Manipur, Mizoram and southern Assam was partially restored on Sunday, six days after it was snapped due to landslides in the Lumding-Badarpur hill section of the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR), officials said. Limited train operations are being allowed for the time being, with normalisation of movement expected by Monday, they said. "The first goods train and first passenger train (Kanchenjunga Express) crossed the landslide-affected location at Jatinga Lampur after restoration," an NFR spokesperson said. An NFR statement on Saturday eve ...Read More >
Guwahati, Jul 4 (PTI) Train services to Tripura, Mizoram, Manipur and Assam's Barak Valley were restored on Friday, a day after disruptions due to a landslide in Dima Hasao district, an official statement said. A Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) release said services on the Lumding-Badarpur hill section were successfully restored in the morning. "Train operations through the section resumed this morning from about 09:42 hours. The first train to pass through the restored section was Train No 12520 (Agartala-Lokmanya Tilak Terminus) Express," the statement said. Services were disrupted betwe ...Read More >
Agartala, Jun 30 (PTI) In a major relief to the people of Tripura, a railway wagon carrying fuel entered the state following the restoration of the Agartala-Guwahati railway line, officials from the state transport department said on Monday. Earlier, Transport Minister Sushanta Chowdhury had assured the public that food grain stocks were adequate, though the state was experiencing a temporary fuel shortage. With the arrival of the fuel-laden wagon on Sunday night and additional goods trains carrying essential commodities such as food grains en route, authorities declared the state "free from ...Read More >
Silchar: Train services on the Lumding-Silchar Hill section under Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) were disrupted on Thursday afternoon after a fresh landslide between Dihaku and Mupa stations blocked the tracks. The incident comes just days after the railway resumed operations on June 29, following a six-day suspension caused by a major landslide in the Jatinga Lampur area.Railway officials said restoration efforts are underway, but all train movements on the Lumding-Badarpur Hills section remain suspended until further notice. The landslide occurred at kilometre 51/2-3, where falling boulder ...Read More >
Guwahati, June 28 (SocialNews.XYZ) After a week of disruption, the train services between south Assam, Tripura, Manipur, and Mizoram and the rest of the country via Guwahati would be partially restored from June 29, an official said on Saturday. The train services in the Lumding-Badarpur Hill Section of the Lumding division have been disrupted since June 23 after huge landslides badly affected the railway track in the mountainous areas. Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) Chief Public Relations Officer (CPRO) Kapinjal Kishore Sharma said on Saturday night that the train movement over the affect ...Read More >
Guwahati: After a week of disruption due to landslides, regular train services between South Assam, Tripura, Manipur, Mizoram, and the rest of the country via Guwahati fully resumed on Monday, officials said. The vital train services in the Lumding-Badarpur Hill Section of the Lumding division have been disrupted since June 23 after landslides badly affected the railway track in the mountainous areas under Assam's Dima Hasao district. A senior official of Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) said on Monday that both goods train and the passenger train are being operated normally in the landslide ...Read More >
Guwahati: After a week-long suspension caused by landslides, regular train services connecting South Assam, Tripura, Manipur, Mizoram, and the rest of the country via Guwahati resumed fully on Monday, officials from the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) confirmed. The disruption began on June 23, when heavy rainfall triggered massive landslides in Assam's Dima Hasao district, severely damaging the railway tracks in the Lumding-Badarpur Hill Section of the Lumding division. Ready for a challenge? Click here to take our quiz and show off your knowledge! According to a senior NFR official, both ...Read More >
Hyderabad: International Asteroid Day (IAD) is observed on June 30 every year to raise public awareness of asteroids and the importance of defending Earth against potential threats from the asteroid belts. This day has been sanctioned by the United Nations. Asteroids are small, rocky objects that orbit the sun. Even though these rocky remnants are the leftovers from the formation of our solar system that occurred about 4.6 billion years ago, they still orbit around the sun like planets. There are lots of asteroids in our solar system, and most of them live in the main asteroid belt, which is ...Read More >
Guwahati, July 7: Train services to Tripura, Manipur, Mizoram, and southern Assam have been disrupted after a landslide blocked railway tracks in the Lumding-Badarpur hill section of the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR), an official statement said on Monday. "Services of trains running in the Lumding-Badarpur Hill section got disrupted due to a landslide at KM- 51/1-2 between Mupa-Dihakho stations of Lumding Division. Due to which train movement along the affected stretch has been suspended until boulders and debris are cleared from the tracks," the NFR said. Several trains have been cancell ...Read More >