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Suresh Prabhu or Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu is an Indian politician and the current Minister of Commerce & Industry of India, under the Narendra Modi government. Under Prabhu's governance, two major rail accidents happened within the span of 10 days. The Delhi-bound Kaifiyat Express had derailed in Uttar Pradesh's Auraiya district on August 23, leaving at least 81 people injured. On August 19, the Kalinga Utkal Express also derailed in Muzaffarnagar, again in Uttar Pradesh, killing 22 people and injuring over 200. Due to this, during the cabinet reshufle, Railway ministry was taken from him. An all India rank holding Chartered Accountant armed, Prabhu has two PhDs in climate change and economics in Germany and Mumbai. He has been repeatedly elected as the Member of Parliament from Rajapur Lok Sabha constituency in Maharashtra as a party member of Shiv Sena since 1996. Prabhu quit Shiv Sena to join BJP in November 2014. He received the Goud Saraswat Brahmin Samaj Maharatha Award on August 18, 2016. TNN / Jun 07, 2023, 00:25 (IST) Soon after returning from the accident spot in Odisha, railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw instructed Railway Board officers to draw up plans to make the rail network “tamper proof” from external elements. Later, the Railway Board chairman held a meeting with all general managers and divisional railway managers. TNN / Mar 02, 2023, 08:34 (IST) The 44km-long Khagaria-Kusheshwar Asthan rail project under Sonepur division of the East Central Railway (ECR),...

India’s railways minister has said the country’s deadliest train crash in more than two decades was caused by an error in electronic signals that sent a train on to the wrong tracks. Ashwini Vaishnaw said the full investigation into Friday’s crash in the eastern state of Odisha, which killed at least 275 people and injured more than 1,000, was still under way but “the root cause has been identified”. Read more The impact of the collision, which took place as the Coromandel Express was travelling at 80mph, was momentous. The crash caused the engine and the first four or five coaches to jump the tracks, topple and hit the last two coaches of the Bengaluru-Howrah Superfast Express heading in the opposite direction, causing several carriages of that train to also derail. Vaishnaw would not confirm if the human error or interference had played a role in the signalling malfunction. “Who has done it and what is the reason will come out of an investigation,” he added. The railways ministry has also sought a criminal investigation into the incident by the Central Bureau of Investigation, a government agency. Two officials of the Railway Board also confirmed that the train had been given a green signal to proceed down the loop track and had not been over the speed limit at the time of the collision. Jaya Varma Sinha, a member of the Railway Board, said failure of the track management system was the main focus of investigations. The computer-controlled “interlocking system”, which is...