Frontier Mail's 70th anniversary

The Frontier Mail, once known as the Pride of India, and now the Golden Temple express, celebrated its 70th anniversary on Monday with the general manager of the Western Railway V D Gupta flagging off the train from Mumbai Central.

The train started its service on September 1, 1928 between Colaba station, which was subsequently dismantled in 1933, and Peshawar in the North Western Frontier Province in Pakistan. It was among thefastest trains run during British colonial rule, and continued to retain the position until the introduction of the Rajdhani Expresses. Starting off as a six coach train, the train today has 19 vestibular coaches transporting people from Mumbai Central to Amritsar. The steam engine used to power the train was replaced by a diesel engine in the late 1970s.

Morcha to demand ATKT

Engineering students from various city colleges held a morcha outside the University of Mumbai in Fort on Tuesday morning to demand for reintroduction of the old ATKT (allowed to keep terms) rule. The students also submitted a memorandum in this regard to authorities.

Previously, the rules allowed engineering students to have more than four ATKTs and yet go into the next semester. However, as per the new rules introduced by the varsity, the students could not afford to have more than four ATKTs.

SBI association officer retires

The general secretary of the State Bank of India Officer's Association, Mumbai circle,R D Shendurnikar, retired on Monday, August 31, after serving the bank for 40 years and four months. Shendurnikar worked with the Officer's Association for the last 30 years and has worked on numerous social projects for the members. Some of these are Association's Guest Houses at Panchgani and Amboli, the employees' Credit Society and Educational Trust for Schools at Aurangabad and Nerul.