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11:06 PM, Apr 26, 2011
BJP leader Vijay Goel pulled the chain of a Shatabdi train to get off at an unscheduled station and Rahul Gandhi kept hundreds of commuters waiting in Gurgaon while he and his entourage were visiting the city for a meeting. Not quite the common man's netas. ...
08:58 PM, Apr 22, 2011
Lucknow: Sonu Sinha, the athlete who lost her leg in a train accident, has made a huge gesture by taking decision to donate all the money she has received so far for medical aid and support to her sports academy. Sonu, also know as Arunima, said that she wants to donate the entire aid she has received to her Sports College. Arunima Sinha, a national level football and volleyball player,...
09:00 AM, Apr 17, 2011
Bangalore: Lord Krishna's rushing for an AC seat and so is Bapu - that's what you get when you put together 15 professional artists to paint at the railway station. The Bangalore city railway station on Saturday saw a first of its kind art camp between platforms 4 and 5 - after a rural art NGO Aley joined hands with the Railways. Vani Manohar, founder, 'Aley' said, "You can get...
07:37 AM, Mar 27, 2011
For those who regularly follow the Railway budgets, the contrast between the boastful optimism of former minister Lalu Prasad Yadav and the candid honesty of the incumbent, Mamata Banerjee, is unmistakable. Take, for instance, her confession on the excruciating shortage of goods wagons. The Railways simply doesnt have enough wagons to carry all the freight that comes to it for loading. It routinely turns down business to the detriment of...
03:47 PM, Mar 25, 2011
Mamata Banerjee has been called a Bengal centric minister post her rail budget speech. ...
11:49 PM, Feb 25, 2011
New Delhi: The Rs 57,360-crore earmarked in the annual plan for 2011-12 is the highest ever investment made in a single year for Railways, which runs one of the largest networks in the world. "The annual plan for the year 2011-12....is the highest ever plan investment by the Railways in a single year", Mamata Banerjee said while presenting the Railway Budget for the next financial year. "The Plan is proposed...
06:09 PM, Feb 25, 2011
New Delhi: Indian Railways, the country's single largest employer, spends 42 per cent of its revenue on staff wages and allowances, while almost two-third of its earnings come from moving goods. Railways in 2009-10 spent 42 paisa out of every rupee it earned towards paying staff wages and allowances and another 17 paisa for meeting pension fund obligations. Fuel is the third biggest expenditure head with 16 per cent of...
05:44 PM, Feb 25, 2011
New Delhi: Fifty six new express trains are proposed to be introduced this year. The announcement was made by Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee in her Railway budget 2011-12. The trains are: • Raebareli-Jaunpur Express (daily) • Tirupati-Amravati Express (bi-weekly) via Akola, Nizamabad, Gooty, Dharmavaram • Asansol-Gorakhpur Express (weekly) via Chhapra, Siwan Nagpur-Kolhapur Express (bi-weekly) via Kurduwadi, Lathur road, Purna, Akola • Malda Town-Digha Express (weekly) via Rampurhat Pune-Nanded Express (weekly)...
03:58 PM, Feb 25, 2011
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10:52 AM, Feb 24, 2011
Mumbai: Bollywood actor Imran Khan is quite a romantic at heart but, surprisingly, he chose to work on his first Valentine's Day after marriage, rather than pamper his wife Avantika Malik. And guess where was he? In the ladies' compartment of Mumbai's local train! The young heartthrob was busy shooting for a Coke commercial at the Goregaon station here Monday. He was supposed to enter the ladies' compartment -- much...
04:01 PM, Feb 16, 2011
Thiruvananthapuram: In another incident which again raises serious questions about the security of women, a 23-year old was allegedly raped on a train. The victim tried to escape by jumping off the running train and lost her life. The victim was brutally raped in a deserted women's compartment of a moving train near Thrissur and subsequently died from head injuries sustained when she jumped out of the train to flee...
07:12 AM, Feb 07, 2011
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12:01 PM, Jan 11, 2011
New Delhi: CNN-IBN brings out the reality of how the Railways allow cartels of vendors to over price supplies, causing severe loss to the Indian Railways. An internal investigation by the Railway Ministry shows how a procurement cartel runs the show in the Railways, which has an annual budget of over Rs 97,000 crore. An upset minister ordered the probe after a railways store manager blew the lid on the...
10:48 PM, Dec 10, 2010
Rangapara: There has been a rise in activity by Bodo militants in Assam, with more abductions being reported in the Sonitpur district of Assam. Heartbreakingly for the families of two railway drivers, even two months after their abduction, there's no rescue or help coming in from any quarters. The families have been left to prayers and no concrete help from anywhere. Sabita Singh Phukan, the mother of two, has been...
08:49 AM, Oct 12, 2010
Not just the anti-collision devices, there seems to be a problem with the complete safety system of the Railways. ...
07:19 PM, Jul 26, 2010
The mystery behind Bengal train crash has raised many unanswered questions. Experts discuss the issue on CNN-IBN. ...
10:47 PM, Jul 20, 2010
Himsagar Express nearly met with an accident when its engine and four compartments got detached from other bogies. ...
02:04 PM, Jul 20, 2010
The officials did not feel necessary to provide adequate information to passengers regarding train services. ...
02:27 PM, Jul 07, 2010
The Railways have decided to run pilot trains as the Naxals have advised people not to travel by trains during the bandh. ...
08:21 AM, Jul 07, 2010
