River levels rising in Bengal districts; no fresh water release from DVC on SaturdayHeavy rains have caused several West Bengal rivers to rise, with some exceeding danger marks. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accused DVC of...
04 Oct, 2025, 04.15 PM IST
Railway Ministry permanently closes Rs 402-cr Mathura-Vrindavan rail conversion projectThe Railway Ministry has permanently shut down the Mathura-Vrindavan rail line conversion project, initially sanctioned in 2017-18 with a b...
10 Jun, 2025, 05.06 PM IST
Need few lakh crores to eliminate level crossings: Piyush GoyalGoyal said there were 21,340 Manned Level Crossings (MLCs) and 1,048 Unmanned Level Crossings (UMLCs) in the country as on April 1, 2019.
03 Jul, 2019, 03.43 PM IST
Railways to run 5 metre-gauge lines as heritage stretchesAmong them is the around 30-km-long Mhow-Kalakund rail line in Madhya Pradesh, which, the sources said, will be used solely for tourism pur...
08 Apr, 2018, 12.29 PM IST
All Metre Gauge tracks to be converted into Broad Gauge: GovernmentThe Minister said the Railway Ministry has been mobilising Rs 3.5 lakh crore for completion of old and incomplete projects gradually.
12 Apr, 2017, 02.05 PM IST
Loss making Indian Railways to rent out hill trains to private playersNarrow and metre-gauge tracks linking the hill stations are set to be the first of the 108,000-kilometer rail network to be run privately
28 Jan, 2017, 06.48 AM IST
Popular passenger train Century Express chugs into pages of historyPeople decorated the platform with balloons, distributed water bottles to passengers, gave mementos to crew and also took selfies with the ...
15 May, 2016, 03.42 PM IST
Lumding-Silchar broad-gauge rail line expected to become functional by NovemberConversion of the meter-gauge section of Lumding division in Assam started in October last year.
29 Sep, 2015, 03.09 PM IST
First goods train in newly Gauge Converted Lumding – Silchar section flagged offAt the Lumding Railway station, thousands cheered as the train loaded with about two thousand three hundred tonnes of potatoes from West Be...
28 Mar, 2015, 08.34 PM IST
Railways urged to protect century-old train track as heritageVarious organisations in Assam's Dima Hasao have urged railway authorities to protect century-old meter gauge train track as a national her...
08 Nov, 2014, 07.56 PM IST
- Centre approves alignment of Metro rail along metre-gauge line
According to Patel, this new alignment of the Metro rail has increased the length of the route by two km and added one more station.
05 Nov, 2014, 11.08 PM IST
Last journey on Silchar-Lumding metre gauge line tomorrowThe metre gauge route covered a serpentine hills section going through green forests, rivulets and streams and mounting the highest ridge o...
27 Sep, 2014, 03.42 PM IST
Udaipur to be connected by broad gauge rail by March 2015Udaipur, the headquarters of Gomati district, would be connected by broad gauge railway line by March next year, Tripura assembly was infor...
21 Feb, 2014, 04.12 PM IST
Agartala to get broad gauge connectivity by 2016If the required fund is available, North-East Frontier Railway will be able to extend the broad gauge rail connectivity to Agartala within ...
09 Sep, 2013, 12.35 PM IST
- India- Bangladesh Railway officers to meet on May 21
India and Bangladesh Railway officials would meet in Dhaka on May 21 to review the progress of work in the railway link between Agartala an...
18 May, 2013, 06.10 PM IST
- Goldern Rock workshop to export 23 metre gauge coaches
The Golden Rock Railway Workshop (GOC) here, for the first time, would export 23 metre gauge passenger coaches to Tanzania, Chief Workshop ...
13 Apr, 2008, 05.02 PM IST
- Indian Railways exports four diesel locomotives
Indian Railways has exported four metre gauge diesel electric locomotives through RITES recently.
15 Jan, 2008, 08.05 PM IST