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Cleanliness drive: Disposable bed linen in Rajdhani Express! Jyoti Mukul in New Delhi               I f you are on board an Indian Railways coach and get bed linen never used by anyone, your chances of getting a good night's sleep increase manifold, especially if the compartment is pest-free. You might get this happy surprise when you next board a train. The Railways is planning to soon try disposable bed linen, on an experimental basis, in the Bangalore Rajdhani Express. Among other initiatives that the Railways is planning for giving you a "clean experience" are bio-toilets, pest-free train coaches and setting up of more cleaning stations. All of this with a mere Rs 940 crore in pocket? It seems the country's biggest transporter has a very daunting task at hand. But the Railway Board is in a mission mode to make these possible, especially because cleanliness is among the three priority areas Prime Minister Narendra Modi h...

Telangana: Train collides with bus; 18 school children killed, 12 severely injured Thursday, July 24, 2014 Hyderabad: Eleven school children, including a bus driver were killed when a bus carrying 40 students collided with Nanded Express at an unmanned railway crossing near Medak in Telangana.   Confirming the incident, DIG N Suryanarayana said that 12 people including 11 children were killed in Telangana's Medak district in train-school bus collision.   The DIG said that 16 others have been grievously injured. The injured school children have been rushed to Hyderabad for medical treatment.   The children were the students of Kakatiya Techno School.   Reports say that it was the first time the school bus driver took the particular route to reach the school in a hurry.   Meanwhile, a Railway official source said that there might be a possibility that the accident happened as the bus driver was in ...