Naveen Patnaik has become the second longest serving Chief Minister replacing West Bengal's Jyoti Basu. Former Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Kumar Chamling still holds the record of being the longest-serving CM in the country.
The CRS, which is probing the Balasore accident, in its report also highlighted the "lapses in the signalling-circuit-alteration" carried out at the north signal 'goomty'.
Due to derailment of Shalimar-Chennai Central Coromandel Express in Kharagpur-Bhadrak section of South Eastern Railway, at least five trains were cancelled which were to commence journey on June 6.