At least 10 people have been killed and another 81 injured by the head on collision of two commuter trains in the southern German state of Bavaria, which would have been even more tragic if not for a school holiday. “We have eight dead on the trains”, said police spokesman Juergen Thaimeier, adding that about 100 people had been injured, 55 of them seriously. Firefighters and emergency doctors work at the site of the train crash. A much more serious accident happened in 1998: InterCity Read more [...]

Engineering, machine tool, and automobile industries here were urged to look at opportunities in doing business or setting up facilities in Bavaria, Germany.John Kottayil, executive director of Invest in Bavaria and T.S. Sampath Kumar, senior advisor of Invest in Bavaria, were on a two-day visit to Coimbatore on Tuesday and Wednesday to talk to industries here about opportunities in Bavaria.They told The Hindu about 70 Indian companies have facilities in Bavaria and these are mostly in the technology Read more [...]

Updated February 11, 2016 13:11:35 Photo: Investigators say it is too early to draw conclusions on what caused the crash. (AFP: Peter Kneffel) Investigations into a head-on train crash in Bavaria that killed 10 people are focused on the actions of a signal controller, sources close to the inquiry say. But officials said it was too early to speculate Read more [...]