Minister of Railways Ashwini Vaishnaw, P.C. Mohan, MP, and Sanjeev Kishore, General Manager, South Western Railway addressing a press conference in Bengaluru on today. | Photo Credit: Jayanth V. To curb traffic problems in the city, the Ministry of Railways has proposed to develop a circular rail network of around 287 km on the outskirts … Read more
Putting an end to the long wait, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan opened the Guruvayur railway overbridge for traffic on Tuesday night. The railway overbridge is expected to end the perennial traffic block near the railway crossing at Guruvayur. The railway crossing at the heart of the temple town used to close around 30 times in … Read more
Major railway stocks like the Indian Railway Finance Corporation (IRFC), Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL), Ircon International, RITES, and RailTel Corporation of India fell up to 6%. Meanwhile, shipping stocks like Shipping Corporation of India (SCI), Garden Reach Shipbuilders, Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders, and Cochin Shipyard declined by up to 5% in the intraday trade. Palestinian … Read more
Farmers shout slogans while blocking a railway track during a ‘Rail Roko’ protest in Jalandhar | Photo Credit: PTI As farmers continued with their ‘rail roko’ agitation against the Central government, blaming apathy towards their demands, train services were disrupted for the second consecutive day in Punjab on Friday. Farmers associated with 19 different farmer … Read more
A image of a freight train. For representation. | Photo Credit: The Hindu The countdown for inauguration of the ambitious Agartala-Akhaura rail project began with completion of trial of a freight train on the 10.5 km track on Thursday. The train with an engine and three cargo containers started from the Bangladesh side and rolled … Read more
Work to construct a rail overbridge (ROB) at a cost of ₹29.5 crore at level crossing 64 at Karunguzhi in Chengalpattu district commenced recently. The project will help local residents and farmers moving paddy to the rice mills in the locality. Sources in the Highways Department explained that the 847-m, two-lane ROB, with 22 spans, … Read more
In an apparent change of tack on SilverLine, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has signalled that it would not unqualifiedly oppose the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government’s bid to develop a rapid mass transit railway system for Kerala. BJP State President K. Surendran, who called on metro rail expert E. Sreedharan at the latter’s residence … Read more
All types of investigation have been ordered, whoever is found guilty will be punished, PM Modi said after visiting the accident site June 04, 2023 09:40 am | Updated 09:44 am IST Rescue workers recover victims’ bodies from a carriage wreckage of a three-train collision near Balasore, in India’s eastern state of Odisha, on June … Read more
Punjab government has requested farmers who are staging an indefinite rail blockade in opposition to the Centre’s new agriculture laws, to spare goods trains since the state’s thermal power plants are now left with only two days of coal supply. Farmers blocking railway tracks at Devi Dass Pura village in Amritsar on October 7 (Photo … Read more