RJD president Lalu Prasad on Thursday said Railway Budget has cheated people as it has nothing to offer.
'My wife, family members as well as members of the workers will be trustees.' 'The trust will take all decisions -- no family member can individually take any decision.'
Year by year, our cities remain defeated in the face of weather conditions, costing us time, money, resources and often lives, observe Amit Kapoor and Bibek Debroy.
The 24-year-old Snapdeal employee who went missing on Wednesday said that she was abducted by four men at knife point while she was on her way back home in an auto-rickshaw.
Amid rising coronavirus cases in India, the government has asked people not to panic, saying no community transmission of the virus has been observed and there has only been a few cases of local transmission so far and that it is "not a health emergency" in India at present.
The migrant workers were walking along the rail tracks apparently to escape the attention of police. A video clip from the scene of the tragedy shows the bodies of migrant workers lying on the tracks and nearby with their meagre personal belongings scattered around.
As per a recent decision, passengers can lodge a 'zero FIR' in any railway station and seek swift action.
In the note it was written that Pandey, a 2012-batch IAS officer, was fed up with his life.
Fifteen minutes' drive from the prime minister's home lives the real India
Five railway workers, including an officer, were on Saturday run over by Delhi-bound Dehradun Janshatabdi Express near Ghaziabad at approximately 11.30 am. Northern Railway sources said a railway inspection officer and four workers were killed in the accident between Ghaziabad and Shahibabad stations. The incident comes close on the heels of a similar mishap in which six men were knocked down by a local train near Palwal in Haryana.
Sonu Sinha, a national-level football and volleyball player, was pushed from the Padmavat Express on Monday night between Chenati and Bareilly railway stations while travelling to Delhi to appear for an examination, police said.
The data updated at 8 am on Saturday showed that the coronavirus caseload has risen to 59,03,932 with 85,362 infections being reported in a day, while the death toll mounted to 93,379 after 1,089 people succumbed to the disease in 24 hours.
Dense to very dense fog engulfed the Indo-Gangetic plains, including Delhi, for the second morning on the trot on Tuesday, lowering visibility to 50 metres in the city and affecting road traffic and train movement.
Eid-ul-Fitr, which marks the end of holy month of Ramzan, is being celebrated across the world on Monday with fervour and gaiety.
Tanu Weds Manu engages best if you can read in between the lines and draw your own sub-text.
With the fans allowed to watch the final on Sunday's tickets, there were many fans, who had scheduled their hotel check-out
The fire appears to have started from the Roof Mounted Packaged Unit (RMPU- the railway terminology for an air-conditioning unit in a coach).
If 4,000 workers could work round the clock for the construction of the new Parliament building, then there is no reason why all infrastructure projects too cannot follow that model, asserts Dr Sudhir Bisht.
Presenting the Narendra Modi government's maiden Rail Budget, Railway Minister Sadananda Gowda announced setting up of logistic parks and private freight terminals on PPP model.
He had uploaded a video on social media in which he demanded that the Maharashtra government make travel arrangements for migrants, who are stranded due to the coronavirus-enforced lockdown and want to go back to their native places.
5,012 rounds of ammunition were found stashed in five abandoned suitcases in the AS-8 coach of the Dibrugarh-Delhi Rajdhani Express.
'The government must understand that the Indian Railways is like a Kamdhenu cow. It can look after your GDP, it can look after the health of the nation. But the Kamdhenu cow also needs nourishment.' 'You have not at all looked after the Indian Railways, you have ill treated the Indian Railways, you have mistreated the Indian Railways and you have given the Indian Railways step motherly treatment.' 'I don't think this government has understood the Indian Railways.'
'They treat us like garbage. We are not humans for them'
An inquiry by the safety commissioner has been ordered. Anusha Soni reports
We have decided to provide good quality food to our passengers and for that we have decided to have base kitchens at several places so that fresh food can be picked up at every two-hours of travel," Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu said at a round table conference on catering in New Delhi.
Gogamedi, the chief of Rashtriya Rajput Karni Sena, was shot dead in Jaipur on Tuesday by unidentified bike-borne criminals.
Gandhi said that the BJP government has clearly mishandled the economy that was built by the United Progressive Alliance government, and is now resorting to selling the country's assets as a "last resort" to generate some money.
Air India's new chief Ashwani Lohani is a man of many parts. Here are 10 interesting facts about him.
Heavy rains accompanied by strong winds damaged many cars, brought traffic to a grinding halt, left trees uprooted and led to power outages in various parts of the capital on Monday.
In Kerala, the use of black ranges from such convenience to strictures by community and religion to fashion and personal choice. One would have to be really insecure or too fond of the well settled life to see black solely as a badge of protest, points out Shyam G Menon.
A young girl lost her life in South Delhi two days ago at the hands of a jilted admirer. We invite readers share their experiences and opinions on how to deal with stalkers and jilted lovers.
The hectic legal proceedings in the Danish woman gangrape case on Thursday took the prosecution by surprise, as the victim who supported the case in the trial court turned hostile in the Juvenile Justice Board where she failed to identify the three minor offenders.
The Aam Aadmi Party is looking at taking a plunge into the political cesspool of Uttar Pradesh, where state assembly elections are to be held in 2017.
Prime ministers turning up with such frequency to launch trains is an indication of the political mileage resident in public transport. Will our railways step out of the government's shadow? After all, they are the ones manufacturing trains and running them, notes Shyam G Menon.
Railway Budget is the first indicator of possibly better days
An alert has been sounded by the Delhi government after the water level of Yamuna river crossed the danger mark, an official said.
Gujjar protesters held sway on Wednesday, blocking a key rail track in Dausa district leaving several trains suspended and disrupting traffic on the highway linking Rajasthan with Madhya Pradesh as security forces kept a close watch in the violence-hit areas.
China evinces interest in the 1,754-km long high-speed rail project.
Among the Pakistani victims, five are male and two female.
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