Nearly 50 per cent of railway level crossings unmanned
The train accident at an unmanned level crossing in western Uttar Pradesh on Thursday that has claimed some 38 lives occurred exactly a month after India assured greater safety at these intersections
Passengers on Duronto Express attacked, four held
Passengers travelling aboard the New Delhi-Howrah Duronto Express were assaulted by a group of men and four persons have been arrested in this connection, railway officials said.
The incident occ
Indian Railways: Interesting facts
With more than 64,015 km (39,777) of track and 6,909 stations, Indian Railways (IR) has world’s fourth largest railway network after those of US, Russia and China. Also, IR is India’s single largest e
Railways in private sector reform
Tentative reforms and some eye-catching projects could herald a private sector-driven shake-up of India's creaking railways, but deeper change is needed to tackle the supply bottlenecks that still cri
Hand over Singur land to Railways: Trinamool
Kolkata, Jul 28: The Trinamool Congress today demanded that the West Bengal government hand over the site of Tata Motors' abandoned small car project to the Railways for an international-standard coac
Railways planning sale of e-tickets on its portal
New Delhi, July 27: Indian Railways are mulling the sale of e-tickets on its portal which will end IRCTC's monopoly in e-ticketing business and provide multiple booking avenues to rail passengers.
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Sainthia collision: Railways was slow to respond, says PC
The Union home minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, on Wednesday accused the Railway ministry of responding slowly to Monday's train collision at Sainthia station in West Bengal.
Mr Chidambaram said the first