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Imagine a railway court functioning in a moving train! In an initiative to speed up disposal of criminal and petty cases which are pending at the Railway Magistrate Court in Kollam, the Thiruvananthapuram division of railways will start ‘Court on Wheels’ in the coming months.

The coach of the ‘court’ will be attached to a train plying in the Thiruvananthapuram division. Any case, ranging from ticketless travel, irregularities in train travel, abuse of woman travellers and thefts caught by the RPF, will be brought before the railway magistrate who will travel in the coach. The cases will be settled immediately. The court will function akin to any other court with the magistrate in chair. However, if the passenger demands that he would like to appoint a lawyer to contend the case, it will then be referred to the Railways’ Kollam Second Class Magistrate.

A record 12,384 students of 120 schools visited the Science Express on Wednesday and the general visitors were 14,017.A total of 42 children, including 22 girls, studying in 4{+t}{+h}and 5{+t}{+h}classes at the Fishery Primary School at Vasavanipalem, Lawson’s Bay Colony, visited the Science Express Biodiversity exhibition at the Railway Station here on Wednesday.The students were thrilled on going through the exhibits on display at the expo. They spent about two hours going through all the coaches as the volunteers explained to them about the various aspects of the models and charts on display and the need to conserve biodiversity.The teachers also explained to their students quoting from the relevant chapters in their EVS (Environmental Science) subject. Some of the students were keen on telling what they had seen at the expo to the students of lower classes.The students had a gala time in the 12th coach where they answered questions and played some puzzles. Some of them won prizes for their correct answers.The exhibition will conclude on Thursday evening.

The first bullet train in India is likely tocome up between these two stations. Though pre-feasibility studies were done onthe entire 650-km long Pune-Mumbai-Ahmedabad section, the government may placeMumbai-Ahmedabad stretch on a priority. It will reduce travel time between thetwo commercial cities from current 8 hours to just 2 hours.

The new rail tunnel linking the troubled Kashmir Valley and Jammu region will help develop Jammu and Kashmir.

The section between Banihal in Jammu and Qazigund in Kashmir is 18 kilometres long.The Banihal-Qazigund section includes an 11-km-long tunnel – India’s longest, 2nd longest in Asia.The opening of the section marks the start of the rail service to the Kashmir Valley. Eight coach trains will run between Banihal and Baramulla from June 27 after the inaugural run on June 26. The section will reduce the distance from 35 km (by road) to 18 km. The rail link has been constructed at a cost of Rs 1,691 crore