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Indo-Russian consortium bags Indian Railways' ₹1,100 cr track upkeep contractAn Indo-Russian team has secured a significant ₹1,100 crore contract from Indian Railways. They will supply and maintain advanced track mai...
Opposition urges Govt not to privatise railways, restore senior citizen concessionLok Sabha witnessed a debate on the Railways (Amendment) Bill 2024. Opposition parties voiced concerns about potential privatization and ur...
Train Accidents: Indian Railways eyes tech push to get the killer wheels and rods out of tracksThe swift response of loco pilot A P Bundela prevented the Sabarmati Express derailment by detecting a piece of rail on the track. With rec...
Kanchanjunga accident: Reason was wrong manual signalling, not pilot who died, railway experts affirmManual authorisation issued wrongly led to the fatal accident, rail experts insist. The pilot of the freight train was given the go-ahead w...
Congress accuses govt of 'destroying' railways, demands Ashwini Vaishnaw's resignationCongress president Mallikarjun Kharge said whenever there is a train accident, Modi government's railway minister reaches the spot under th...
Kanchanjunga Accident: Vande Bharat comes under fire, Oppn demands Ashwini Vaishnaw's resignationKanchanjunga Express Train Accident: The collision between the Sealdah-bound Kanchanjunga Express and a goods train near New Jalpaiguri has...
Railways releases online links for locating affected passengers. Here are linksThe family members/relatives/friends and well-wishers of the passengers affected in this unfortunate accident can identify using the link o...
Railway probe finds rail fracture caused 2017 Andhra train derailment; NIA had suspected sabotageIn his final report on the accident, the Commissioner of Railway Safety (South Central Circle) Ram Kripal said the accident occurred due to...
No deaths due to rail accidents in 2019, safest year for train passengersWhile between 1990-1995, an average of more than 500 accidents took place every year, with around 2,400 deaths and 4,300 injured in those f...
Railway inducts these machines to make your journey comfortable, saferThese are besides the existing fleet of 883 track maintenance machines already deployed on heavy density routes.
On track: Railways' safety record in 2017-2018 best in 57 years, shows official dataAs of March 30, as many as 73 accidents were reported across the railway network, compared to 104 in the previous fiscal, the lowest in 57 ...
Galvanised steel plates to help check rail accidents: HZLThree trains jumped off the tracks and another derailment was averted on September 7 in Uttar Pradesh, New Delhi and Maharashtra within a s...
Government announces Rajiv Bansal as new Air India CMDThe vacancy was created after current CMD Ashwani Lohani has been made the chairman of Railway board after the current chairman A K Mittal ...
Make train journeys safe: PM Narendra Modi to railway officials after derailmentThe derailment of the Indore-Patna Express at Kanpur dehat will be probed, said the Prime Minister at the Rail Vikas Shivir (rail developme...
French firm Thales to provide latest safety technology to Indian RailwaysIndian Railways intends to implement Train Protection Warning System (TPWS) on a total of approximately 7,900 km of main lines across the c...
Railways to seek over Rs 1 lakh crore for safety upgradationRailways will seek over Rs 1 lakh crore from the Finance Ministry as non-lapsable fund to strengthen safety measures on the rail network in...
Railways recorded derailment every 5th day during 2007-12: RTIIn 2010-11, 80 derailments caused four deaths and left 55 injured while in 2011-12, 55 derailments caused 74 deaths and left 367 injured.