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Only trains don't kill gentle giantsTrain-elephant collisions continue to claim jumbo lives across India. A recent tragedy in Assam saw eight elephants killed. Experts point t...- Rail accidents came down to 81 in FY25: VaishnawRailway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw reported a significant decline in rail accidents, down to 81 in the last financial year from 400 previous...
- EVs can’t fix a global epidemic of ‘car harm,’ study findsA global all-EV fleet perpetuates car harm, including deaths, injuries, pollution, and inequality. Car ownership is higher in richer countr...
- Railways Budget: Can Budget 2024 build the safety net for happy rail rides?Union Budget 2024: The Indian Railways proposes a groundbreaking ₹1 lakh crore plan to procure 7,000-8,000 new train sets over 15 years. Ai...
- Why the Yamuna Expressway continues to remain accident-proneHere is a closer look at why the Yamuna Expressway continues to remain accident-prone and deadly.
- If Modi wins again, this could be his plan for India@75Modi govt has got a blueprint from NITI Aayog to take the country's economy to $4 trillion in the next 5 years
- Swachh Bharat Abhiyan: Where progress on paper hits quicksand of ground realityThe statistics may appear to be picture perfect but the situation on the ground turned out to be somewhat different.
- Reforms in Railways should continue with a sharper eye on safety and executionIf Prabhu is replaced, will there be a pause on spending on rail infra, Rs 4L cr has been spent between 2014-2018 as against Rs 4.9L cr bet...
- What Jaitley didn't tell you in his budget speech about the state of Indian RailwaysThis is the first time freight earnings have fallen since 1978-79. It is a telling statistic about the state of the railways and the overal...
- Encourage cycling to tackle pollution; but Indian motorists need to be sensitised to cyclists' safetyWith increasing pollution and congestion on their roads, Indian cities have no option but to get more people to cycle.
- Inland waterways: How Nitin Gadkari is steering some of modern India's biggest infrastructure projectsThe Road Transport, Highways & Shipping Minister may not be the man about town, but he has envisioned some of India’s biggest infra project...
- Fire in trains: Supreme Court for lab test of materials used in coachesSC orders lab test of materials used for furnishing interiors of coaches in trains to ascertain whether they meet rescribed safety standard...
- New rail law to make it tough to claim compensation in cases of 'untoward' incidentsMore rail passengers die due to falls from trains than collisions or derailments, and a new law is all set to make it much harder to claim ...
- Railways (Amendment) Bill, 2014 to amend Railways ActInitiating the discussion on the Bill, Venugopal narrated an incident in Kerala where a girl lost her life after jumping from a train to es...
- What of road safety? Is the finance minister bothered?About 35% of all accidental deaths in India take place on the roads. Indians are 20 times as likely to die of a road accident.
- 'Lines seem diverting ICD rail traffic wrongly claiming congestion at the Port'Amid the hue and cry about congestion at the country's leading container port, JNPT chairman L Radhakrishnan tries to clear the air as he f...
- Cabinet reshuffle: PM makes minor changes, Jairam Ramesh new rural development ministerPrime Minister Manmohan Singh announced minor changes to his cabinet. In a surprise move Dr Singh moved Jairam Ramesh to the rural developm...
- Ministers’ safety credentials: Jaffer Sharief fares the worstDoes Mamata Banerjee have the worst track record when it comes to railway safety?
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