The three Vande Bharat trains flagged off by PM Narendra Modi connect Meerut with Lucknow, Madurai with Bengaluru, and Chennai with Nagercoil. (Pics/X, PTI)

At least nine pilgrims bound for Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu met with a tragic end on Saturday when a fire broke out inside a stationary train compartment at the railway station here in the small hours of Saturday, the Southern Railway said. While the Southern Railway initially put the toll at 10, it later revised it to nine (Pics/PTI)