Parle Melody: The ₹1 soft power twist Modi served to Meloni and the worldPrime Minister Modi's gift of a Parle Melody toffee to Italy's Giorgia Meloni symbolised India's evolving soft power. Beyond traditional ex...
21 May, 2026, 12.59 PM IST
One trip, one ticket: New EU rules aim to ease train travelThe EU plans to force railway companies to sell rivals' tickets on their websites and share data with booking platforms, under new rules un...
13 May, 2026, 04.19 PM IST
India's Afcons emerges as successful bidder to construct railway line in EuropeIndian company Afcons Infrastructure Ltd has secured a major railway project in Croatia. This marks Afcons' entry into Europe and is its la...
11 May, 2026, 04.16 PM IST
Construction workers uncovered six centuries old shipwrecks buried beneath the same siteAn ordinary infrastructure project in Sweden has unearthed an extraordinary past. Six shipwrecks, dating from the Middle Ages to the 17th c...
08 May, 2026, 04.18 PM IST
TRAI seeks stakeholder input to boost public Wi-Fi expansion across IndiaTelecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Monday released a consultation paper on the "Proliferation of Public Wi-Fi Networks in Indi...
27 Apr, 2026, 01.41 PM IST
When Made-in-India engines alarmed the BritishThe British colonial railway system in India, often romanticised, was primarily an instrument of economic exploitation. Designed to extract...
12 Aug, 2025, 10.19 PM IST
EIB provides Rs 2700 crore loan for Bengaluru suburban railwayThe European Investment Bank has approved a €300 million loan for Bengaluru's new suburban railway network. The project covers four rail co...
25 Oct, 2024, 07.21 PM IST
Indian Railways on course to 100 per cent electrification, becoming world's largest green networkIndian Railways is set to achieve complete electrification of its broad gauge network soon, ahead of schedule, with a dedicated fund of Rs ...
08 Apr, 2024, 05.36 PM IST
Flying Air India? You can now book your travel to European towns, even those without airportsAir India has unveiled its plans to establish an intermodal interline agreement in collaboration with AccesRail, an IATA travel partner, to...
23 Aug, 2023, 07.30 PM IST
Air India flyers can now enjoy simplified European travel experience with intermodal ticket partnershipAir India has announced a groundbreaking intermodal interline agreement with AccesRail, allowing passengers to access over 100 European cit...
22 Aug, 2023, 09.33 PM IST
Air India and AccessRail sign agreement; airline to provide access to bus & train connections in European citiesAir India has announced plans to sign an intermodal interline agreement with distribution company AccesRail. The agreement will allow Air I...
22 Aug, 2023, 02.32 PM IST
Railways to upgrade entire signalling system with anti-train collision system: Rail Board chairmanThe railways has identified 10 more high-speed rail corridors besides the Mumbai-Ahmedabad route to give them to private players.
29 Aug, 2019, 09.07 PM IST
Indian Railways back to the drawing board on many key modernisation plans after Modi riderModi said that any project that railways wanted to go ahead with should be financially viable and should only be implemented using the avai...
13 Apr, 2018, 06.27 AM IST
Railways to build modern signalling system: Piyush GoyalGoyal said that today only 20,000 kms of railways line in the world has such an advanced safety mechanism in place.
15 Feb, 2018, 10.19 PM IST
Nokia Siemens bags Rs 200 crore network contracts from railwaysTelecom equipment maker Nokia Siemens Networks has bagged nearly Rs 200 crore of contracts to supply network gear to the Railways, executiv...
29 Jun, 2012, 10.16 AM IST
- Tata Steel's rail facility ready now after 35mn euro upgrade
Tata Steel on Thursday said its rail facility in France, upgraded with an investment of 35 million euros, is now ready to produce longer ra...
29 Sep, 2011, 05.55 PM IST
- Eurail offers discounted fares on travel across continent
Buoyed by growing Indian tourist traffic, a major European rail company has planned to expand its base in India, offering discounted fares ...
18 Apr, 2010, 12.35 PM IST