The 1.4% decline projected for 2025 is driven by a 5.6% (72,000) dip in the strength of railway employees to 1.2 million by next year. IMAGE: Railways employees at Surat station. Photograph: Kind......
Experts recommend awaiting the findings of the 2021 Census, which is yet to be conducted, before introducing population control policies. IMAGE: A crowded railway platform in Mumbai. Kindly note......
Railway Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday flagged off the maiden run of the Karnataka Sampark Kranti Express from Hazrat Nizamuddin station in south Delhi.It is the first of the 18 such trains to be......
The 15th Lok Sabha will go down in the history as the most disrupted in Independent India so far including the pepper spray incident which marked a new low in parliamentary conduct. Disruptions......
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley unexpectedly left for the United States for a medical check-up following a kidney transplant last year, sources said. Jaitley, 66, who had a kidney transplant......
Trinamool Congress on Wednesday described the interim Railway Budget as a 'sham', saying that an outgoing government had no right to frame policies or place budgets. The party's national general......
Though a healthy surplus of Rs 12,728 crore (Rs 127.28 billion) has been projected for the coming year, but this may turn out to be illusory. A vote-on-account Budget is meant to provide for......
Presenting the Interim Railway Budget for 2014-15, Railway Minister Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday announced a slew of measures for improving the services of Indian Railways. Here are the......
'If tax-and-spend was expected to trickle down, it has failed; India's rural wages are stagnant, which has wrecked consumption growth,' points out Debashis Basu. Illustration: Dominic......
Passenger fares and freight rates were left untouched on Wednesday in the interim rail budget, which talks about plans about involvement of private sector and FDI as part of efforts to......
Indian captain Sourav Ganguly's request for utilising the cricket complex developed by the Railways in Kolkata for starting an academy got the sanction from Railway Minister Nitish Kumar.The......