Modi unveils 29 projects worth Rs 12,000 cr in Varanasi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the beneficiaries of welfare schemes today are examples of social justice and “real secularism”, as he slammed the previous regimes for......

Modi to launch projects worth Rs 50,000cr in 4 states

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Telangana and Rajasthan on July 7 and 8 during which he will inaugurate and lay the foundation stones of about 50 projects worth......

Cattle hits, snags raise doubts over Vande Bharat as 'train of future'

Experts suggest that a revamp in the surrounding infrastructure should take care of the issues plaguing the VB-2, stressing that the lightweight nature of the trains is what allows for higher......

Before Atique Ahmed, there was Chand Baba in UP

Atique Ahmed is one of the most feared dons in Uttar Pradesh today.There was another don who preceded Atique and had he survived, Atique wouldn't have been around today, recalls Sudhir Bisht.......

Indian Railways certainly deserves a lot more attention, isn't it?

If you don't rationalise the number of trains, there are limited options to de-stress the railways' high-density networks notes Bibek Debroy Image: Passengers hang off the side of an overcrowded......

32 new trains, 8 Garib Raths planned

Railway Minister Lalu Prasad announced introduction of 40 new trains, including eight Garib Raths, in the Rail Budget 2007-08 presented on Monday. "We operate more than 9,000 passengers trains......

Mamata Budget offers 57 new trains

Fifty-sevennew trainswereproposedby the railways ministerMamata Banerjee as she presentedthe Railway Budget for 2009-10 in Parliament on Friday.These are: 1. Vishakhapatnam-Secunderabad-Mumbai......

Trains take political track

If a prime minister could be chosen on the basis of announcing new trains, Lalu Prasad would be there already. An unprecedented number of new trains-- 43 in all-- with a majority of them touching......