The Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi has called for the statewide shutdown to protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and the proposed National Register of Citizens. Barring stray incidents of stone pelting and attempt to disrupt road traffic in Mumbai, there was not much impact of the bandh in the metropolis.
While we complain about comfort in coaches, rarely do we think about the comfort of engine drivers.
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.
Readers share their experience of ordering meals in the Indian Railway.
PM has been regularly seeking people's inputs through mygov.in and his app, to assess the mood of the nation.
"We have firmed up an action plan to increase the train speed to up to 160 km per hour on the total 9000-km main trunk routes across the country as part of the Mission Raftaar project. To begin with we have started the work on two major busy routes of Delhi-Mumbai and Delhi-Howrah," said a senior Railway Ministry official involved with the project.
Railway Budget will be presented on February 26.
He was blessed with celestial ability, a once-in-a-generation player destined to pull India out of its hockey inertia and lay down for it a new, exciting, path of greatness. Then he was shot and unsure if he would walk, let alone play hockey again. Dhruv Munjal hopes Soorma, the biopic on Sandeep Singh's life, will bring him back where he belongs -- in the spotlight.
Indian Railways plans Rs 39,000 crores non-fare revenue. Via: Branding of trains. Vinyl-wrapping of Rajdhanis, Shatabdis and Garib Raths. Moving billboards.
'Trains, at one point in time, were not just a mode of transport. They told a story,' says Bibek Debroy.
The ministry said that states can also develop their own protocol with regards to quarantine and isolation as per their assessment.
LHB coaches are safer. Two high-level railway safety commissions came down heavily on ICF coaches, recommending their replacement by LHB, says Bibek Debroy.
Much of the tardy reaction to competition is the result of LIC's legacy.
Intense cold wave continued unabated in north India on Saturday as fog-related incidents claimed eight lives in Uttar Pradesh and disrupting traffic movement in several parts of the region.
The railways is expecting a revenue of Rs 1,84,820 crore during the current financial year (FY17).
The station with the most annual revenue is CST Mumbai, followed by Dadar.
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Rediff readers share their experience of eating on the Indian Railways.
Even as several trains have more than 200 waitlisted passengers every day, running some trains with so many vacant seats is a criminal waste of scarce resource.
Rediff.com meets a family that longs for "a very nice man" who, alas, will never return.
I am not ruling out possibility of joining Cong again, says Trinamool Congress MP Somen Mitra.
Back in time, one of Gandhi's co-travellers, too, sat through the day at the Central station at Madras watching passengers pay bribes to procure their tickets.
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