Rains lash Punjab, Haryana; Rivers in spate

Incessant rains continued for the second day on Wednesday in most parts of Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh disrupting normal life even as authorities remained on high alert to tackle flood-like......

Covid: Railways cancels slew of premium trains

The Northern Railways on Thursday cancelled a slew of Rajdhani, Shatabdi and Duronto Express', stating low patronisation and rising coronavirus cases as the reason behind the decision.  ......

Farmers' rail roko: 18 trains cancelled, 60 affected

The Samyukt Kisan Morcha's (SKM's) six-hour 'rail roko' protest on Monday over the Lakhimpur violence affected 150 locations in the Northern Railway zone and hindered the running of 60 trains, said......

Two teenagers arrested for stoning Rahul's train

Two teenaged boys were arrested on Thursday in connection with the stoning of the Shatabdi Express in which Rahul Gandhi was traveling on Tuesday night. The boys, aged 14 and 16, admitted to......

Non-existing trains running on IR web site

If one goes by the 'Train Running Information' on the official website of the Indian Railways, the number of trains coming to and from Chandigarh is much more than the actual 14 pairs of Mail,......

Trial run of bio-diesel cars begins

Indian Oil Corporation, in association with Tata Motors, has begun trial of the country's first biodiesel-run cars.Two Tata Indica cars are being run on diesel doped with 5-10 per cent non-edible......

5% increase in rail fares likely

Railway Minister Nitish Kumar has said he was satisfied with the financial performance turned in by the department in this fiscal.The operating ratio would improve over the Budget target of 94.4......

IOC to start field trials of biodiesel

Indian Oil Corporation would begin this month field trials of running buses on biodiesel -- diesel doped with 5 per cent non-edible oils -- IOC Director (R&D) N R Raje said on Wednesday."We have......