'The Railways decided to go for kavach three years back, but the progress has been very slow.' IMAGE: A goods train hit the Kanchanjunga Express travelling from Silchar, Assam, to Sealdah, West......
'Imagine what will happen when a train running at 128 kmph moves onto a track that is meant to have only a speed less than 30 kmph!''Naturally, it will derail, and the coaches will go for a......
The Trichy-based Consumer Protection Council, a voluntary consumer rights organisation, was founded as a consumer movement in 1974 by Dr Rajiv Taranath, R Krishnamurthy, M Meeenakshi Sundaram and S......
The Trichy-based Consumer Protection Council, a voluntary consumer rights organisation, was founded as a consumer movement in 1974 by Dr Rajiv Taranath, R Krishnamurthy, M Meeenakshi Sundaram and S......
The protest against the gang rape itself is not bad. But to provoke the police, to disobey the law and to insist on protesting wherever they want, whenever they want and however they want is not......
It is a myth that FDI in retail will kill at local kirana stores, instead it will help us immensely, says S Pushpavanam. Foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail has been permitted whether......
Taking advantage of the indifference of passengers, the Indian Railways routinely indulges in several unfair trade practices, says S Pushpavanam. Photograph: Anindito Mukherjee/Reuters The Indian......
The Bullet train is a childish desire of the government to join an elite club at the cost of 99.9 per cent of rail passengers, says S Pushpavanam. Image: Japan's bullet train, or the shinkansen,......
Ministers may come and ministers may go but the attitude of the RB remains the same forever, and it is this group that really calls the shots in Indian Railways, says S Pushpavanam. The rhetoric......