IGP Chandra Kishore Mina By Dheeraj Fartode Chandra Kishore Mina, an IPS officer of the 2006 batch, has been awarded the President’s Police Medal for Meritorious Service. Currently serving as Special Inspector General of Police (IGP) for the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), Mina has held several important positions in Nagpur and the Vidarbha region. While serving as ASP in Gadchiroli, Mina led a successful anti-Naxal operation in 2009, which resulted in the Petha encounter, weakening the Naxal movement. This operation earned him the DG Insignia. As SP in Akola and Nanded, Mina used innovative methods to maintain communal harmony and resolve tensions effectively. He uncovered a state-wide kidney transplant racket in Akola and, as DCP in Nagpur, dismantled organized crime syndicates through MCOCA and MPDA cases. In Nanded, Mina detected a recruitment scam that affected the entire state. His technological skills were evident when he implemented the court monitoring system in Akola. As DCP in M...
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Train in fog |
By Dheeraj Fartode
Rail traffic remained disrupted on Saturday due to heavy fog. Several trains on both Grand-Trunk route and Howrah-Mumbai route are running late by several hours. Gondwana Express is the worst affected train, which is running late 20 hours behind schedule.
A senior railway official said that the impact of fog is most severe on trains moving through north India. 12406 Nizamuddin-Bhusawal Gondawana express is running 20 hours behind schedule. 12724 New Delhi-Hyderabad Andhra Pradesh Express, 12409 Raigarh-H Nizamuddin Gondawana Express, 12723 Hyderabad-New Delhi Andhra Pradesh Express are running late by 10 hours. 02746 Puri-Shree Sai Nagar Special Express, 12616 New Delhi-Chennai Central Express, 12295 Banglore-Patna Sampark Kranti Express, 12296 Patna-Bangalore Sanghamitra Express, 12616 New Delhi-Chennai GT Express are reaching 8 hours late at Nagpur station.
Several other trains which were running late were 16688 Jammu Tawi-Tirunelveli Navyug Express, 12615 Chennai-New Delhi Grand Trunk Express, 12621 Chennai -New Delhi Tamil Nadu Express, 12622 New Delhi-Chennai Tamil Nadu Express, 12540 Lakhnau-Yashvantpur Express, 12722 H Nizamuddin-Vishakhapattanam Dakshin Express, 12834 Howrah-Ahemdabad Express, 12650 H Nizamuddin-Yashvantpur Karnataka Sampark Kranti Express.
Though late run of trains has become routine every year during fog, railways has failed to devise any solution through technology.
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