Historic UK engine installed at Bihar station

DARBHANGA: An England-made steam rail engine of 1913 vintage, said to be the first locomotive that was brought here for haulage work at a sugar mill, was installed on Sunday in front of the Darbhanga railway station and will soon be refurbished, a senior official said. The metre-gauge engine, bearing No.253, had been lying decrepit at a government sugar mill. Railways in Darbhanga came in 1874 and rulers of Darbhanga Raj had their own royal trains and saloons. PTI

A first: Convicts to be trained as paramedics

BHOPAL: Forty-two convicts, including four women, of Bhopal Central Jail, several of them serving life term for murder, are undergoing a three-month paramedical course with authorities claiming it to be a first-of-its-kind initiative in the country. Jail superintendent Dinesh Nargava said the inmates were being trained to dress wounds and administer intravenous therapies among other life-saving measures. He said only those who had cleared Class X, served at least five years of term and showed good behaviour were chosen. PTI