'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.......

Railways to scale up advanced Kavach 4.0 installation on new routes

Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has reviewed the progress of the advanced version of the automatic train protection system Kavach 4.0 at the Rail Bhawan in New Delhi, officials said on Monday.......

Cyclone Remal: 'WB elections won't be disturbed'

'There will not be very heavy rain.''Moderate showers will be there and winds will be, say, somewhere between 20 and 40 km/hr, gusting to 35 km/hr.' IMAGE: South Mumbai's normally bustling beach......

It's Going To Get Hotter In India

More than 80 per cent of Indians live in districts vulnerable to climate risks.Among these, Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Bihar are the most vulnerable states to extreme......

Scrapping vehicles in volumes to curb pollution will be a tough task

For deciding which vehicles are to be scrapped, the setting up of fitness centres and regulating them would be a humongous task. One of the things that became mandatory in the middle of the......

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:......

How Railways is ferrying 10 mn workers

Ferrying migrant workers back to their states would be the largest special service by any railway network in the world in one go. Here's how the transporter manages it. IMAGE: Migrants stand in a......

90 UNFORGETTABLE Asha Bhosle Songs

Sukanya Verma celebrates the singing legend who turns 90 on September 8. IMAGE: Asha Bhosle in Mumbai, August 9, 2023. Photograph: Hitesh Harisinghani/Rediff.com Her voice reminds me of tiramisu.......

How Ayushmann Khurrana became Ayushmann Khurrana

With four back to back hits, the shy lad from Chandigarh is an unlikely movie star.Ayushmann Khurrana tells Ronjita Kulkarni/Rediff.com how it all came together and how he prepares to confront the......

Dhadak Review: Many scenes brought tears to my eyes

To those who feel that Dhadak doesn't measure up to Sairat, Kshamaya Daniel, 18, has one piece of advice: We're talking about wine here, not scotch. Imagine this: You're having a get-together at......

How the Howrah Bridge played out in Bollywood

'To this day, not a year passes when Bollywood does not head to Kolkata to train its cameras on the magnificence of the bridge and the flow of life that pulses along the river across which it......

Women's U-19 World Cup: Meet the winners

They can't be anonymous anymore. But, even in a cricket- obsessed India, very few would have heard of them before their campaign in the U-19 World Cup culminated in the country's maiden ICC triumph......

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,......

African footballer found dead on rail tracks in Chhattisgarh

Diomande Aboubacar's mutilated body was recovered from the tracks near Baradwar railway station, around 200km from Raipur, on August 9. IMAGE: A warning sign is seen in front of empty railway......

Dhoni travels in train with Jharkhand team after 13 years

IMAGE: Mahendra Singh Dhoni shared a selfie with his millions of followers on social network. Photograph: Instagram The South Eastern Railway served a very special passenger on Tuesday night when......