The deplorable train tragedy in Amritsar in which 60 people were crushed to death and several others injured, brings the focus to how safety in public places needs to be taken more seriously in the country, say Bollywood celebrities who have sent out prayers for the victims.

The Punjab and Railway Police on Saturday questioned the driver of a train that crushed at least 60 people to death here while they were watching the burning of a Ravana effigy from a railway track.

Thousands of devotees turned up to witness the burning of 10 effigies of demon king Ravana at a posh suburban town of Kolkata as a part of the Dussehra celebrations on Friday.

In a terrible disaster, at least 50 people watching the burning of a Ravan effigy from a railway track were crushed by a speeding train here in Punjab on Friday, triggering anger in the area and nationwide outrage.

Ranchi, July 28 (ANS) Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das on Saturday inaugurated the famous "Shravani Mela" at Baba Baidhyanath Shiva temple in Deoghar, where around three million people offer water on the "Shiva Linga" every year in the month of Shravan in Hindu calendar.

A bunch of Congress-affiliated National Students' Union of India (NSUI) students placed PM Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah’s face along with Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed and several other militant organisations as Ravana's 10 faces before burning it on the night of Dussehra.

India celebrates Dussehra to mark the victory of good over evil, when lord Rama had killed demon Ravana to free his wife Sita from his arrest.