'You Put The Common Man On Discomfort'

'You can focus on Vande Bharat but focus on the common man too.''You can have both. They are mutually exclusive.' IMAGE: Commuters travel in a crowded AC compartment of a suburban train in Mumbai.......

BJP Manifesto To Feature Bullet Trains

A source in the know said two-three of the seven bullet train corridors could be included as a practical election promise. Kindly note the image has been published only for representational......

Major News Events From 2023

As 2023 comes to an end, a look at some events that shaped the world in the first half of the year. The events are listed in the order of their occurrence.   IMAGE: People work at the site of......

Initial probe faults Rayagada passenger train crew for Andhra accident

A preliminary railway probe into the Sunday night accident in Andhra Pradesh has held the driver and the assistant driver of Rayagada Passenger train responsible for the collision as it passed two......

L&T, 2 mega consortia in race for India's first bullet train project

The first consortium includes Afcons Infrastructure, IRCON International and JMC Projects, while the second group of companies include NCC, Tata Projects and J. Kumar Infra Projects. Mega industry......

Railways to allow private players for bullet train projects

The projects - Delhi-Varanasi, Mumbai-Nagpur, Delhi-Ahmedabad, Chennai-Mysore, Delhi-Amritsar, Mumbai-Hyderabad, and Varanasi-Howrah - are expected to cost around Rs 10 trillion. Illustration:......

Railways to offer up to 25% discount in some Shatabdi trains

The discount will be given on the base fare and charges like GST, reservation fee, superfast tariff and others will be levied separately. Faced with stiff competition from roadways and low-cost......

Good news for rail passenger: Flexi-fare scrapped for 15 trains

The Railways has also reduced flexi-fares from 1.5 to 1.4 times the base ticket fare in 101 trains In a relief for passengers, the Railways has scrapped flexi-fare in 15 premium trains in which......

Indian football team donates Rs 20 lakh to Balasore victims

IMAGE: The Indian football team celebrate with the crowd after winning the Intercontinental Cup at the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar on Sunday. Photograph: Indian Football Team/Twitter The Indian......

Kohli, Zareen offer prayers, condolences for train tragedy victims

  IMAGE: An aerial view of the triple train crash in Odisha's Balasore district. Photograph: ANI/Twitter Virat Kohli and Olympic gold medallist Abhinav Bindra, among several other......

MSD@40: Dhoni's Awesome Journey

Mahendra Singh Dhoni turns 40 on Wednesday, July 7, 2021. One of India's most loved cricketers, MSD led India to three World Cup titles and the No 1 ranking in Test cricket. As the legend turns 40,......

Dhoni@39: 14 things you didn't know

From TC to Cricket Legend, what an incredible journey Mahi has had! Photograph: Danish Siddiqui/Reuters   Mahendra Singh Dhoni has given India countless memories to savour on the cricketing......

Kolkata turns pink for day-night Test

Kolkata sheds its white-blue nocturnal hue with pink ball day-night Test.Avishek Rakshit reports from Kolkata.   Kolkata has discarded the white-blue colours it had come to be identified......