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Kerala probes students singing RSS song on Vande Bharat's maiden run

The Kerala government on Sunday ordered a probe into the singing of an Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh song by school students onboard the newly inaugurated Vande Bharat Express from Ernakulam to......

3 students killed as train hits school bus in TN; gatekeeper held

Three school students were killed in this district on Tuesday when the bus they were travelling in collided with a passenger train, even as different versions of the tragic incident surfaced.......

153 dead as Ditwah leaves trail of destruction in Lanka; rain pounds TN

Sri Lanka was on Saturday picking up pieces after widespread destruction caused by a powerful cyclone with President Anura Kumara Dissanayake declaring a state of emergency throughout the country......

No casualty reported so far in TN train collision: Railway board

The Railway Board has said that no casualty has been reported so far in the passenger-freight train collision in the Ponneri-Kavarapettai section in Chennai Rail Division. IMAGE: Rescue operation......

Tamil Nadu rail mishap: Special train leaves with stranded passengers

Passengers of the Darbhanga Bagmati express that met with an accident at Kavaraipettai near Chennai on Friday night have left for Dharbanga by a special train on Saturday, the southern railway......

Rs 100 cr for amenities in S Railway

The Southern Railway would spend Rs 100 crore (Rs 1 billion) this fiscal to develop various passenger amenities, according to a top official.The amount is from a total of Rs 19,000 crore (Rs 190......

Why Railways incurred loss of Rs 79 cr in 09-10

Indifferent attitude towards withdrawal of uneconomical stoppages, "injudicious" creation of passenger amenities and failure to augment coaches on time have led the Railways to incur a total loss......

Ginger Hotels among bidders for railways' amenity complexes

Tata Group’s Ginger Hotels is among the bidders for 15 of the 43 multi-functional complexes offered for development by the Rail Land Development Authority so far this year. RLDA is a......

What is the controversy over Vande Bharat all about?

The Railway Board and employees at Integral Coach Factory in Chennai, makers of the train, are at loggerheads over the proposed transfer of design and reassigning the manufacturing of Train 18 to......

Smart city challenge: Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, are you ready?

At a time when the world is talking about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of developing ‘100 smart cities’ to accommodate the burgeoning population of India, we take a......

S P Balasubrahmanyam's TOP 75 Songs

Siva Sankar looks at S P Balasubrahmanyam's fantastic repertoire. S P Balasubrahmanyam passed away in his 75th year, and so we celebrate the singer with 75 of his top songs, in a multi-part......

Viswanathan Anand's father dies in Chennai

'A simple man, he made sure his son had the right values.' IMAGE: Viswanathan Anand's father K Viswanathan was a former General Manager of the Southern Railway. Photograph: Dean......