Weeks after Odisha tragedy, railways transfers 5 top officers

The railways on Thursday shunted out five top officials of the South Eastern Railway, including those responsible for operations, signalling and safety, weeks after a triple train accident killed......

Deadliest train accidents in India since independence

The train crash in Odisha on Friday, involving the Bengaluru-Howrah Superfast Express, the Shalimar-Chennai Central Coromandel Express and a goods train in which at least 233 people were killed and......

Bihar: 7 killed as Rajdhani hits autorickshaw

At least seven persons were killed on Saturday when the Dibrugarh-New Delhi Rajdhani Express rammed into the autorickshaw they were travelling in at an unmanned level crossing in Katihar district......

Railways install Anti-Collision Device

The Indian Railways has given its sanction for installing Anti-Collision Devices on 3465 km North, North East, South, South Central and South Western routes.The work on the North East Frontier......

Rlys deploy data loggers, software for upkeep

The Indian Railways is deploying data loggers in a major way for predictive maintenance, safety enhancement and for implementing computerised control charting.Data loggers log data pertaining to......

Arunachal, Meghalaya to be on railways map soon

After facing a scarcity of funds and a challenging law and order situation for about two decades, Indian Railways’ expansion in the Northeast is finally gaining momentum. Three of the five......

Railways to foray into education, convert hospitals to colleges

Railway hospitals will offer postgraduate courses for medical students.Shine Jacob reports. IMAGE: Surgery aboard the Lifeline Express. Photograph: Danish Siddiqui/Reuters The Indian Railways has......

Mobile train communication soon

Indian Railways plan to introduce mobile train communication on its A, B and C routes, Rajya Sabha was informed on Friday.Of this, work on 3,200 route kilometre on Northern, North-Central,......

What inspired Rangoon?

Did the human drama provoked by the Japanese invasion of Burma and the Indian exodus from Rangoon inspire director Vishal Bhardwaj's forthcoming epic? IMAGE: Saif Ali Khan in Rangoon. The railway......