3rd JUNE 2023 ENGLISH TNPSC CURRENT AFFAIRS PDF TNPSC SHOUTERS
Coromandel Express train accident
- More than 280 people were killed when a Coromandel Express train, a freight train and a Bengaluru-Yeswandpur-Howrah train collided near Balasore in Odisha yesterday. More than a thousand people were injured.
- In this case, the details of how this terrible accident happened have been revealed in the first phase of the investigation conducted by the railway officials. Minutes after the Coromandel train left Balasore station, a green signal was mistakenly given at an unmanned signal near the forest before Pahanaga.
- But it is said that the green signal was changed to red signal within few seconds. But when the driver of the train engine sees it, it has a green signal. This is why he has driven the train forward. Just then the oncoming freight train and the Coromandel train collided with each other.
- That is, the signal should have given a fair signal. If that was the case, the driver would have stopped the train. By that time the freight train would have taken a different track. But the first phase of investigation has revealed that the tragic accident happened because of the green signal that was shown for a few seconds.
- A Memorandum of Understanding for Technical Cooperation between the Indian Navy and the Indian Maritime University was signed on 02 June 23 in New Delhi. The MoU covers a process for collaboration in areas such as training, joint research and development, joint courses, Center of Excellence (Marine Engineering), field-level problem solving by teams of INS Shivaji, Lonavala and Indian Maritime University.
- The MoU was signed by Vice Admiral Sandeep Naithani, Head of Materiel Division and Dr. Malini V Shankar, IAS (Retd), Vice Chancellor, Indian Maritime University.
