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New Vande Bharat Express will be saffron in colour

The 28th rake of Indian-built semi-high-speed Vande Bharat Express will be 'saffron' in colour, railway officials said on Saturday. IMAGE: The new and old Vande Bharat Express stationed at......

'Vande Bharat's Potential Yet To Be Exploited'

'All Shatabdis and Rajdhanis should be converted to this type of high-speed train.''There should be a sleeper version of the train.''Right now, there is only a day version of the train.''Unless you......

Passengers praise Railways for isolation coaches -- barring mosquitoes

Clean toilets, colour-coded dustbins, comfortable beds, oxygen cylinders and all amenities one can expect in a top class hospital -- the first inmates of the train coaches converted into isolation......

Railways may convert 20,000 coaches into isolation wards

The Railway Board has instructed zonal railways that they might be required to convert up to 20,000 coaches into isolation wards as part of its preparedness to fight the coronavirus outbreak. In a......

Railways manufactures prototype of non-AC isolation coaches

The railways has manufactured a prototype of an isolation ward for treating coronavirus patients by converting non-air-conditioned train coaches, it said on Saturday. Once the best practices are......

Indian Wheels for Vande Bharat Trains

IMAGE: A look inside the Integral Coach Factory, where Vande Bharat trains are manufactured in Chennai. Photograph: ANI Photo India's iconic Vande Bharat train project may finally find a solution......

Vande Bharat gets back on track after myriad controversies, vigilance probe

On August 15 last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced from the ramparts of the Red Fort that the Indian Railways would launch 75 Vande Bharat Express trains by August 2023. Photograph:......

Ventilator shortage: 'Made in India' devices not picked up by govt

According to government data, the Centre procured only 35,179 ventilators out of the 50,000 originally ordered. As India battles the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, several state governments......

Chinese firm in JV among bidders for 44 Vande Bharat trains

China’s State-owned CRRC Corporation has emerged as the only foreign player for the railways' global tender for its ambitious semi-high speed indigenous Train 18 project, officials revealed......

Vande Bharat dream on slow track; Train 20 may be shelved

Though bids for 43 Train 18 sets were invited first, orders for only three were given, including one for Spanish major CAF and Medha Group that supplied for the first Vande Bharat train. The......

Arjuna Awardee began life as a carpenter

S Bhaskaran is the first bodybuilder to be presented the Arjuna Award in 20 years.A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com met the man of steel. IMAGE: S Bhaskaran with his wife and two children. When S......

Learnt a lot from Dhoni during run chases: Vijay Shankar

'It was a great experience to share the dressing room with names like Virat Kohli, M S Dhoni, Rohit Sharma. It is important to watch and learn from the seniors in the team'. IMAGE: 'I......

Canoe bronze medallist suspended 'after failed drug test'

Moldovan canoe sprint bronze medallist Serghei Tarnovschi was provisionally suspended from the Rio Olympics on Thursday, after he failed a pre-Games drug test, the International Canoe Federation......

How the Rio Olympics ban has affected these Russian athletes

Following the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) decision on Sunday not to issue a blanket ban on Russian athletes despite evidence of systematic doping across the majority of Olympic sports,......

AIFF inter-state transfers

The All India Football Federation on Tuesday released the first list of inter-state transfers.Releasing the list, AIFF secretary Alberto Colaco said 81 players have sought transfer in the first......

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