Infrastructure development is a critical enabler to achieve rapid as well as sustainable growth. US President John F Kennedy had once emphasised the significance of Infrastructure connectivity. He said, "American roads ...
Article 39(b) of the Directive Principles of State Policy of the Indian Constitution enforces an obligation to the government that they should follow the principles which best subserve the common good. ...
From startups and IT to now producing world-class trains, the country is emerging as a leader in many areas. Every unit of Vande Bharat Express is estimated to be 40 per ...
According to various reports, more than 13,000 train accidents across the country have claimed the lives of around 12,000 railway passengers in 2020. As per the latest statistics, 32 people on ...
We have all travelled by train. There is hardly any Indian who has not had a train experience. Until 2014, railways remained the primary choice for poor and middle-class Indians to ...
Railway Recruitment Board (RRB), the recruitment arm of the railway that conducts examinations for Group C and Group D hiring, is under the scanner for massive discrepancies in the recruitment process. ...
Even with a Swachh Bharat campaign, Indians continue to hurt the Indian Railways' revenue by spitting paan while free-loaders travel without tickets. Despite starting a Swachh Bharat campaign in the first ...
The new order reverses the December 2019 decision by the previous Railway minister, Piyush Goyal. Earlier, the Railway board used to screen the tenders from PSUs, and then the winning PSU ...
Former Union Railway Minister Lalit Narayan Mishra's assassination in a bomb attack at Bihar’s Samastipur Railway station in 1975 remains one of the biggest mysteries to date. Forty-six years since the ...
As Piyush Goyal gets entrusted with the new responsibilities at Textile ministry, a bureaucrat-turned-entrepreneur-turned politician Ashwini Vaishnaw has been awarded the leading role at Railway Ministry in the Wednesday cabinet reshuffle. ...
Putting the Northeastern state of Manipur on the railway map of the country, a passenger Rajdhani Express train from Assam’s Silchar Railway Station, reached the Vaingaichunpao Railway Station on a trial ...
Historically, successive Indian governments have ignored the country’s North-Eastern region which led to the region being deprived of critical infrastructure. The advent of the Modi government has been a major boon ...
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