New Delhi: Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu has invited suggestions from the public to make the forthcoming Railway Budget citizen-oriented, and in turn the Railway ministry has received over 16,000 suggestions — ranging from the interesting,
New Delhi: The Railways will build coaches to run at a 200-km per hour speed at its Chennai facility in keeping with the Modi government's ‘Make in India' initiative. Introduction of AC rakes in the
New Delhi: The security of female passengers in trains might become the top priority of the Rail Budget this year. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been focusing on women empowerment since he came to power
New Delhi: Water conservation initiatives such as introduction of environment-friendly vacuum toilets and changes in the design of existing lavatories in trains are some of the proposals likely to be announced in the forthcoming Rail
New Delhi: Continuing with the launching spree, Union Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu will tomorrow flag off three trains - two for West Bengal and one for Bihar - from Anand Vihar station here.Train services for
New Delhi: The IRCTC has been fined Rs one lakh after a cockroach was found in food served in Kolkata Rajdhani, as Railways crack the whip slapping heavy fines totalling Rs 11.50 lakh on nine
New Delhi: Contending that the rail budget offers nothing new, Opposition Congress today said it is just a copy of UPA's budget and looks like fresh only because of “packaging” in which “we are zero,
Patna: Accusing NDA government of neglecting Bihar in both general budget and Rail budget, senior JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar today said the state's resolve to develop has not been dampened by the Centre's ‘indifference'.“Our resolve
Jammu: Leaders of CPI(M) and its trade union wing CITU today held protest here and alleged that the NDA government at the Centre was “fast moving” towards privatisation of the country's economy by seeking PPP
Burdwan (WB): Defending the agitation by Trinamool Congress MPs in Parliament over the Railway budget, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today said that they were only exercising their democratic rights to protest against ‘deprivation'
Patna: Former Railway minister and JD-U leader Nitish Kumar on Wednesday said that bullet trains, proposed in this year's Railway budget, were not feasible in the country, though the concept sounded very impressive.Kumar said that
Shillong: A day after Railway Minister Sadananda Gowda announced the first passenger train in Meghalaya, Chief Minister Mukul Sangma said the introduction of rail-head in Meghalaya would boost the economy of the landlocked state.“The introduction
New Delhi: Angry protests by Trinamool Congress over the Rail budget disrupted the proceedings in Lok Sabha for the second day and spread to Rajya Sabha today, with Parliament failing to transact business in the
New Delhi: As smart cards are increasingly becoming popular among the people, the Railways has now launched Go-India Smart Card.Introduced as a pilot project, this value proposition would cover 11 stations of the New Delhi-Mumbai
Mumbai: Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan today said that rail budget has completely let down Maharashtra and that he was feeling “terribly disappointed” by the “apathy” of Centre towards the state.“The government has done nothing on
Mumbai: NCP has accused the BJP-led NDA government of planning to privatise railways and ignoring Mumbai in its maiden rail budget presented today.“The (Narendra) Modi government is planning to privatise Railways. There was repeated mention
Jaipur: Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje today welcomed the Rail Budget, saying it reflects the vision of the Union Government to make the railways world class while Opposition Congress slammed it for ignoring the desert
New Delhi: The AAP today termed the rail budget as a missed opportunity and said the Narendra Modi government could have used its maiden rail budget to spell out its long term vision for the
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Tuesday commended Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Railway Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda for bringing before the nation the true status of the Indian railways.Welcoming the proposal to introduce
New Delhi: The Railway Budget today proposed to introduce ready-to-eat meals of reputed brands on-board trains to improve food quality and cancel vendors' contract if services were not up to the mark. Presenting the Railway
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