As India negotiates the diplomatic minefield that is West Asia, questions are being asked of the government as to whether and how it could engage differently with Iran, Israel and Saudi Arabia, withou

As India negotiates the diplomatic minefield that is West Asia, questions are being asked of the government as to whether and how it could engage differently with Iran, Israel and Saudi Arabia, withou

Railway minister Dinesh Trivedi made an impassioned plea for augmenting rail infrastructure in the border areas, in an implicit reference to China building a network of rails and roads in areas bordering India’s north-eastern states.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s much-anticipated visit to Iran this year can be expected to serve the dual purpose of maintaining India’s ties with Iran on an even keel and kick-starting peace talks w

With new political equations emerging at the national level, non-Congress, non-BJP-ruled states could expect a bonanza from the Railway Budget to be presented by the Trinamul Congress’ railway minister, Mr Dinesh Trivedi.

India is set to potentially lose yet another infrastructure project of interest to it, to China, due to a combination of diplomatic lethargy and inertia in decision-making.

Railway minister Dinesh Trivedi on Friday called on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with a wishlist ahead of the rail budget he is expected to present in the Lok Sabha in March.

Taking a leaf out of the civil aviation ministry’s plans to establish an agency to regulate airfares, railway minister Dinesh Trivedi has mooted an independent regulator for fixing passenger fares and freight tariffs of the Indian Railways.

The Indian Railways is considering an optimum increase in the upper-class passenger fares while taking care to insulate the aam aadmi, travelling by other classes, from the effects of inflation in fuel prices and rising costs of operating trains.

Mamata Banerjee’s gambit of reaching out to the JD(U), which is the second largest constituent of the NDA after the BJP, may not fructify into an alliance anytime soon but it has the stirrings of a possible realignment of political forces in the run-up to the next parliamentary elections.