Delhi govt transfers 12 IAS officers after raid on Sisodia

In a bureaucratic reshuffle, a dozen IAS officers were shifted between departments on Friday, hours after a Central Bureau of Investigation raid at Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia's residence......

Quad foreign ministers resolve to work towards free, open Indo-Pacific

The foreign ministers of the Quad grouping of India, the United States, Australia and Japan on Friday vowed to work vigorously to achieve the grouping's shared vision of a free, open and inclusive......

Lalu checks out 300 km/hour bullet train in Japan

Railway Minister Lalu Prasad, who has an ambitious plan for introducing high-speed train corridor in the country, today took a ride on the bullet train in Tokyo. Prasad, accompanied by senior......

Another chinkara case, another Khan?

After Salman Khan's conviction in a poaching case, filmstar Aamir Khan, who had used a chinkara while shooting his Oscar-nominated film Lagaan, may soon face charges of cruelty to the rare......

Adani's Sri Lanka port JV gets $553 mn from US

The US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) will be investing funds to the tune of $553 million in Colombo West International Terminal Pvt Ltd – a consortium of India's largest......

Railways may scrap new dedicated freight corridors, enhance existing ones

The ministry of railways is mulling scrapping the three newly proposed dedicated freight corridors (DFCs) — East Coast, East-West, and North-South — and instead enhancing the capacity......

Rs 1.40 lakh crore budgetary support for Railways

The Railway ministry has been allocated budgetary support of Rs 140367.13 crore in the Union Budget on Tuesday - Rs 20,311 crore more than the revised figures of the previous fiscal. Photograph:......

Prayagraj to house Indian Railways' ambitious freight programme

Built by the French railway technology company Alstom, it will host a 90-metre-long digital wall for train operation, said to be the second largest in Asia. IMAGE: A man walks on a railway track......