Indore in Madhya Pradesh, Puducherry and Prakasam in Andhra Pradesh also witnessed a tense atmosphere amid confrontation between the party workers.
The Madhya Pradesh government has written to the Union ministry of home affairs on renaming the recently redeveloped Habibganj station after Rani Kamlapati, the 18th century Gond queen of the region.
The Indian Railway Station Development Corporation is now looking to modernise 90 stations across the country.
The tribal vote in Madhya Pradesh is crucial in any election. The BJP's loss in the 2018 assembly election has prompted it to take remedial action.
The Northern Railways on Thursday cancelled a slew of Rajdhani, Shatabdi and Duronto Express', stating low patronisation and rising coronavirus cases as the reason behind the decision.
The revenue generated through advertisements would be used for development and providing better facilities to passengers at railway stations.
Director General of Police R K Shukla announced the suspension of the four officials -- three inspectors and a sub-inspector -- for their alleged negligence which led to the delay in registering the offence.
The train runs between Habibganj (in Bhopal) and Hazrat Nizamuddin (Delhi).
In the 2018 assembly polls, the Congress shocked the BJP by securing 30 of the 47 ST seats, proving that this vote bank has drifted away from the ruling party over some time. Sandeep Kumar reports.
Madhya Pradesh minister P C Sharma said the rain-affected roads in the state would be repaired by November 30.
Union Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi said the new Express Trains would include 9 AC Express Trains including double Decker Express Trains between Chennai-Bangalore and Habibganj-Indore.
He accused the previous governments of being sluggish on implementing railway projects and said the work of ambitious eastern and western dedicated freight corridors expedited only in the last six-seven years.
Maharashtra has the most number of coronavirus cases with 23,401 cases.
Bhopal Express, the prestigious train running between Bhopal and New Delhi, has become the first train in the country to get ISO 900-2001 certification.
Experts say Prabhu displays a clear intent of reforms but has not been able to fully shake-up the mammoth railway system.
The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 2,752 and the number of cases climbed to 85,940 on Saturday.
The incident comes days after a 19-year-old college student was allegedly gang-raped in Bhopal, which triggered public outrage against the police.
'The new trains should be fast, but the roll-out of the privatisation plan should be slow and well-considered,' recommends T N Ninan.
What worries state officials is that Bihar expects to receive more than 1 million migrant workers by the end of May.
Fifteen stations might be taken up in the first stage with an investment of Rs 6,000-7,000 crore.
It is necessary to have a dramatic increase in the number of rapid tests for COVID-19 conducted on a large number of people and that should become the basis for estimating the morbidity and mortality due to COVID-19, not relying only on hospital reports, says Professor K Srinivasan.
In Uttar Pradesh, southwest monsoon has been normal so far where rains and thundershowers occurred in few places since Friday.
The blast occurred in a general coach of the train between 9.30am and 10am when it was on its way to Ujjain from Bhopal, Railway PRO, Indore, Jitendra Kumar Jayant said.
If we can adhere to those standards, most passengers will be happy.
In the history of Indian railway budgets, Suresh Prabhu will perhaps be the first railway minister not to have announced either a single new train or a new railway line
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