A caterer, who fed a prime minister's entourage in a mofussil town in the early 80s, being denied a Rs 7,000 bill due to mention of chicken in the menu and the administration forgetting to receive......
The Indian Railways has decided to equip women personnel of the Railway Protection Force with chilli spray cans, a government press note said on Friday. IMAGE: Women RPF personnel click pictures......
One person was killed and three others injured as an express train derailed in Odisha's Cuttack district on Sunday, officials said. IMAGE: Eleven coaches of the SMVT Bengaluru-Kamakhya AC Express......
The flood situation in the Northeast remained critical on Monday as the toll due to deluge and landslides triggered by heavy rain over the past few days rose to 36, while over 5.5 lakh remained......
Unidentified persons hurled a hand grenade at Punjab Bharatiya Janata Party leader Manoranjan Kalia's Jalandhar residence early Tuesday, shattering glass panes and damaging his SUV and a......
The board will now be headed by Vinod Kumar Yadav as chairman and CEO, and it will have four other members. The Railway Board got its first CEO after the government approved its restructuring and......
On an annual basis, we’ll seek out solutions to Indian Railways’ most critical problems through ‘innovation challenge’: Suresh Prabhu Indian Railways, owner of......
In a first of its kind move, the Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), the ticket booking arm of the Indian Railways, is looking to monetise its bank of passenger data while......
In part three of a series, Rangeet Ghosh, Aakanksha Arora, Sutirtha Roy and Arvind Subramanian explain how the big numbers obscure some serious deficiencies in the 'lifeline of the nation'......
Of the thousands of railway bridges in India, 36,470 are more than 100 years old, and 6,680 are more than 140 years old! But of these, only 21 rank on the Heritage Directorate of the Indian......
Nothing is going to change in a hurry unless attitudes change and punishments are speedy and fair, notes Ramesh Menon. All Illustrations: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Worms are daily crawling......
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......
With the arrest of the film censor board's CEO on charges of demanding bribes to clear films, the regulatory role of the panel is in focus once again. Days after assuming office in January, Rakesh......