Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt was set free from a Pune jail on Thursday and returned home here to savour 'complete freedom', 23 years after his legal problems began over his possession of an AK-47....
* Fourth largest railroad network in the world with some 64,460 route km, after the US (224,792), Russia (128,000) and China (112,00). * Plies nearly 21,000 trains daily to ferry 23 million passengers and three million tonnes of freight. ...
Commenting on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's complaints of conspiracies to destabilize his government, the CPI-M said that he was "already showing signs of strain and frustration"....
The left parties on Thursday criticised the railway budget as directionless and a move towards privatisation of the Indian Railways....
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday that the rail budget lays emphasis on investment and information technology and shows the government's commitment to welfare of poorer sections of society. The prime minister said this year's rail budget builds on the budget presented by Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu last year. "In the las...
Sparing fare and freight rate hikes, Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu on Thursday presented the rail budget for next fiscal with passenger amenities in focus, spanning ease of booking tickets and cancellations to actual travel comfort and cleanliness. The minister possibly left a decision on fare and freight hikes to a later date...
Focusing on the development of railway freight corridors, union Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu on Thursday announced the development of the Delhi-Chennai, Kharagpur-Mumbai and Kharagpur-Vijayawada freight corridors on a priority basis. Presenting the railway budget for 2016-17, Prabhu said the railways has proposed to develop freight corridor...
CPI-M general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Thursday slammed the government over the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) row saying that the sedition act should not have been used against students. "Mahatma Gandhi went to jail under the sedition act. Bhagat Singh was martyred. You are using it against your students," Yechury said in the Rajya S...
The India-Pakistan Samjhauta Express resumed plying on Thursday, after being suspended for some days due to the violent street protests in Haryana, the media reported. The train, with a capacity of up to 500 passengers, runs between Delhi and Lahore. Duniya News said the train left the Pakistani city on Thursday morning. Train and bus services between Ind...
* Social media being increasingly used to ensure transparency * Online booking of retiring rooms made possible ...
