German company to do safety audit of India’s Hydrogen trainsIndia's first hydrogen train will undergo trial runs in December 2024, with TUV-SUD conducting a safety audit. The Indian Railways plans to...
02 Oct, 2024, 05.08 PM IST
Aiming to achieve net zero emission in railways by 2030: PM ModiPrime Minister Narendra Modi stated the government's target to achieve net zero emissions in rail operations by 2030. Railway Minister Ashw...
15 Aug, 2024, 02.45 PM IST
Indian Railways initiates "Hydrogen for Heritage" project, plans to operate 35 Hydrogen trains for a greener futureInitially estimated at an expenditure of Rs 80 crores per train and Rs 70 crores per route for ground infrastructure, the project marks a s...
27 Jun, 2023, 11.40 AM IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi to flag off Assam’s first Vande Bharat Express on May 29The state of the art Vande Bharat Express will provide people of the region the means to travel with speed and comfort. It will also boost ...
28 May, 2023, 07.27 PM IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi to inaugurate Assam's 1st Vande Bharat Express on MondayConnecting Guwahati with New Jalpaiguri, the train will help save about an hour of journey time, compared to the current fastest train conn...
28 May, 2023, 07.20 PM IST
Organisation that floated tender for hydrogen trains shuts shop; Railway says no effect on bidsUsing hydrogen will be a major step towards lowering pollution from trains as the gas is known to be the greenest transport fuel. Hydrogen ...
08 Sep, 2021, 10.19 PM IST
Railways invites bids for hydrogen fuel-based tech for trains"The retrofitting of diesel-powered DEMU and converting it into hydrogen fuel-powered train set will not only save the cost to the tune of ...
07 Aug, 2021, 02.26 PM IST
Facing favouritism charges, railways introduces fresh tender system for Train 18The ICF has been sanctioned to manufacture 40 Vande Bharat train sets over the next three years – 10 in 2019-20 and 15 each in the next two...
16 Jul, 2019, 05.45 PM IST
Bengaluru's suburban rail network to soon get a feature-packed, three-phase MEMU trainThe three-phase MEMU train consists of eight coaches with a total carrying capacity of about 2,400 passengers. The maximum speed of the new...
29 Apr, 2019, 11.14 AM IST
FM Arun Jaitley announces financial support to Bengaluru's suburban rail project; but without detailsThis is not the first time that the city's suburban rail project is finding a mention in the Union Budget. V Sadananda Gowda, as Railway Mi...
01 Feb, 2018, 04.22 PM IST
Bengaluru suburbs to get two electric trains soonThese two trains are part of the 15 trains that the Rail Coach Factory in Kapurthala will deliver to the state in the next one year.
06 Sep, 2017, 10.06 AM IST
New train to Whitefield from Friday to ease road trafficRailway minister Suresh Prabhu, who will be in Bengaluru for two days from August 17, is likely to flag off the new train -a diesel electri...
14 Aug, 2017, 11.50 AM IST
Suburban rail project back on track, almostAlmost a year ago, RITES, a GoI undertaking, had submitted the detailed project report for phase-1A of the project.
16 May, 2017, 10.24 AM IST
Former minister Naran Rathwa urges Railway minister Suresh Prabhu not to use rakes from Gujarat for KumbhThe Railway plans to utilise the DEMU (diesel electric multiple unit) rakes from Vadodara division to run running specials from Ujjain for ...
17 Apr, 2016, 03.10 PM IST
Rail Budget 2015: Railways to build 200-kmph train coaches indigenouslyIntroduction of AC rakes in the inter-city services to make the journey more comfortable will also be proposed in the Rail Budget 2015-16.
08 Feb, 2015, 12.14 PM IST
Integral Coach Factory to produce over 360 LHB rail coaches in two yearsThe production unit of Indian Railways manufacturing passenger coaches had for the first time produced three variants of LHB EOG shells dur...
27 Jan, 2015, 04.29 PM IST
Rail projects in jeopardy after Mamata Banerjee quits UPA-IIRailway officials in the state are a worried lot. Projects worth several thousand crores are currently under way in the state and commitmen...
19 Sep, 2012, 09.27 AM IST