Jatin Saxena grabbed five wickets for 40 runs while contributing 61 with the bat as Madhya Pradesh thumped Vidarbha by 68 runs to advance to the quarter-finals. ...
08:10 PM, Feb 20, 2013
Opener Amit Paunikar's big hundred for Railways went in vain as Vidarbha prevailed in the rain-interrupted match. ...
10:00 PM, Feb 15, 2013
Ishwar Pandey again showed his class and returned with impressive figures of four for 44. ...
07:02 PM, Feb 14, 2013
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on February 11 said seriousness on implementation of high speed rail (HSR) should reflect in the Railway Budget and provisions for the same should be there to provide an impetus to the ambitious project. ...
06:58 PM, Feb 11, 2013
A day after the stampede at the overcrowded Allahabad Railway Station claimed 36 lives, Railway Minister PK Bansal on February 11 said it was not possible for railways to run trains every 10 minutes to clear the heavy rush of Kumbh passengers. ...
03:22 PM, Feb 11, 2013
The state and the taxpayer are losing crores of railway revenue to freight evasion even though CNN-IBN had first reported on the freight evasion scam in September 2011. CNN-IBN has now accessed seven demand notices sent to companies in West Bengal, including the Rashmi group, which was accused of evading freight rates to the tune of Rs 660 crore. ...
06:13 PM, Feb 06, 2013
The Ministry of Railways has sought additional funding from the Centre after the recent diesel price hike. Minister of Railways Pawan Bansal on Saturday said, "Rs 6600 crore is enough for operational work only. We have insufficient funds for other maintenance work. If we need to hire more trains, maintenance of existing trains, electrifications etc, we need more." ...
06:16 PM, Feb 02, 2013
Burdened with increased diesel cost and a large number of pending projects, railways have sought Rs 38,000 crores as general budgetary support from the Finance Ministry for fiscal 2013-14. Railways had received Rs 24,000 crores from the Finance Ministry as support in the current fiscal. ...
03:39 AM, Feb 02, 2013
If you have any grievance against the food served on trains, just dial 1800111321 to lodge your complaint. The toll-free number launched by railways is operational from 7 am to 10 pm throughout the week. ...
10:02 PM, Jan 23, 2013
Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal on Tuesday said expediting pending projects, cleanliness, food and safety will be his top priority. ...
11:22 PM, Jan 22, 2013
If you are travelling by train, get ready to pay more as the increased railway fares have come into effect starting Monday. The fare hike is expected to mop up an additional Rs 6,600 crore annually for the government. This is the first increase in rail fares in a decade's time as the last was during Nitish Kumar's tenure as railway minister. ...
08:47 AM, Jan 21, 2013
In a first initiative of its kind, Indian Railways is likely to introduce Braille stickers in trains for visually-challenged passengers to facilitate their travel. "We are planning to provide Braille stickers inside the coaches for assisting visually impaired passengers," a senior Railway Ministry official said. ...
10:24 AM, Jan 20, 2013
ne person was killed and two others were injured after they were shot at by robbers for resisting their attempt to loot passengers on a moving train in Champaran district. About eight robbers, who boarded the Gorakhpur-Sonepur passenger train at Sugauli station, fired nine rounds on the passengers injuring three of them, one of whom died later in a hospital, official sources said. ...
07:12 PM, Jan 18, 2013
Keeping in mind the lakhs who will throng Allahabad for the Kumbh Mela starting on Monday, the Ministry of Railways has announced steps to help passengers. Besides running special trains and adding coaches in popular trains, additional ticket counters have opened at the Allahabad railway station. ...
07:40 PM, Jan 13, 2013
Criticising the rise in train fares, RJD supremo Lalu Prasad on Saturday said that the railways have "derailed" since he left the office of railway minister. ...
08:13 PM, Jan 12, 2013
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has directed the Railways to pay Rs four lakh as compensation to a youth who had been pushed from a running train by a Travelling Ticket Examiner (TTE) in August 2009. ...
01:19 PM, Jan 11, 2013
Is the steep hike in rail fare justified? Professor G Raghuram shared his perspective in an interaction with IBNLive readers. ...
05:00 PM, Jan 10, 2013
The Indian Railways hiked passenger fares across the board in all classes on Wednesday for the first time in 10 years. The decision came barely a month before the Budget Session of Parliament. With this the railways is expected to earn an extra revenue of Rs 6,600 crore. ...
09:13 AM, Jan 10, 2013
The Delhi High Court has slammed the Delhi police over the Delhi gangrape case, says timely action could have prevented such crime. ...
09:04 PM, Jan 09, 2013
The industry on Wednesday said it is necessary to bring the Railways back on track and hike in rail fares would result into more safety measures and better services to passengers. ...
06:39 PM, Jan 09, 2013
