Protesters disrupt train services in Orissa
November 16th, 2009 - 4:56 pm ICT (UTC +0700) by IANSBhubaneswar, Nov 16 (IANS) Thousands of protesters disrupted rail traffic Monday at Bhusandpur in Orissa’s Khurda district demanding stoppage of express trains at the town’s railway station, an official said.
“Many trains have been cancelled following the ‘rail roko’ (stop train protest) at Bhusandpur. Many express and passenger trains have been cancelled and some of them are stranded at different places,” said Sanjeev Meheta, deputy general manager of East Coast Railway.
Long distance trains like Puri-Amedabad, Falaknuma Express (up-down), Chennai-Howrah Express, Prashanti Express and Guwahati-Bangalore Express are stranded at various places, he said.
The agitators are squatting on rail tracks since Monday morning demanding stoppage of express trains at Bhusandpur, he said.
Related Stories
- Pro and anti-Telengana demonstrators blockade trains - Jan 05, 2010
- Telangana protests hit rail, road transport in Andhra (Lead) - Jan 05, 2010
- West Bengal strike disrupts train services in Orissa - Jul 17, 2009
- Train coaches torched in Bihar, Mamata orders probe (Roundup) - Jun 01, 2009
- Protests over Mamata's budget hit Orissa rail services - Feb 26, 2010
- Maoists blast rail tracks in Bihar, Jharkhand (Lead) - Feb 09, 2010
- BJP's Bengal strike gets partial response, activists run amok (Second Lead) - Nov 30, 2009
- Protestors stop trains in Andhra Pradesh - Dec 19, 2009
- Punjab shutdown against riots hits normal life (Second Lead) - Nov 03, 2009
- Telangana protesters block trains - Dec 07, 2009
- Tribal party shutdown has partial impact in West Bengal - Jul 27, 2009
- Slew of special trains, a gift from Mamata - Feb 24, 2010
- Train coaches torched in Bihar (Lead) - Jun 01, 2009
- Radical Sikhs disrupt train service in Punjab - Nov 03, 2009
- Train and air services fogged out again in Delhi (Second Lead) - Jan 07, 2010
- Business
- agitators
- bangalore
- bhubaneswar
- different places
- east coast railway
- express trains
- guwahati
- howrah
- long distance
- monday morning
- orissa
- passenger trains
- prashanti
- protest
- protesters
- rail traffic
- railway station
- stoppage
- train services
Posted in Business, |







