Category: Railways

A joint venture of the railways’ construction arm IRCON and Gujarat-based infra firm Dineshchandra has emerged as the lowest bidder and frontrunner to bag a bid for the design and construction of 18 km of viaduct and high-speed stations at Ahmedabad and Sabarmati for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail Corridor. In a statement on Monday, […]

Thiruvananthapuram: The Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, IISc-incubated startup L2MRail and the Society for Innovation and Development (SID) have signed an MoU with Kerala Rail aimed at enhancing rail safety, especially in vulnerable terrains. The L2M Rail team and IISc have pioneered Fibre Bragg Grating sensing technology, to develop a Structural Health Monitoring System […]

The Railways operated its first air-conditioned parcel train on Friday using passenger coaches to carry refrigerated cargo of chocolates and snacks, officials said. The parcel train was operated by the Northern Railways from Sanehwal in Ferozpur division to Yeshwantpur in South-Western Railway, they said. This is for the first time that AC passenger-carrying conventional ICF […]

The Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla railway line in Jammu and Kashmir will be a game-changer for the Union Territory and 80 per cent of the work on the project has been completed while the rest will be completed by 2023, Union Minister Darshana Jardosh said on Saturday. The minister of state for railways is on a visit to […]

As many as 150 railway stations will be redeveloped while 300 will be connected with a high speed corridor, said Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw here on Saturday. “Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given me this responsibility and my father has wished me to bring smiles on the faces of each passenger. I would try my […]

Over 800 new trains were introduced in the last five years after the Railway Budget was merged with the General Budget in 2016 and the national transporter ended the practice of one-time announcement of trains, an RTI reply has revealed. To query made by Madhya Pradesh based Chandra Shekhar Gaur, the Railway Board in its […]

Railway Board chairperson Suneet Sharma on Sunday said Bhubaneswar station will be developed into a world-class facility. A joint plan is being worked out with Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) to make the project a success, he said.

The Beijing-based Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has approved a USD 356.67 million loan for the expansion of the Chennai metro rail system, taking the bank’s financing for various projects in India to USD 6.7 billion, making the country its largest beneficiary. Launched in 2016, the AIIB is a multilateral development bank that aims to […]

About 25 trains have been affected due to the Bharat Bandh called by farm unions on Monday to protest the Centre’s three agri laws, officials said. “More than 20 locations are being blocked in Delhi, Ambala, and Firozepur divisions. About 25 trains are affected due to this,” a spokesperson for the Northern Railway said.

In what would raise hopes of avoiding Chinese debt trap in the developing world, a consortium led by the German engineering multinational Siemens NSE -1.31 % pipped the Chinese and has been awarded a 4.5-billion-euro contract to build a high-speed rail line in Egypt, a key state in the Arab world. The railway line will […]

Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Wednesday asked officials to complete the second phase of Bengaluru Metro work by 2024, a year before the deadline. “You have set a deadline of 2025 for second phase, but you finish it by 2024. You re-plan and reschedule it so that you can complete it at the earliest […]

The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Ltd. (IRCTC NSE 2.33 %) fixed a bug on its e-ticketing platform after a plus two lad from the city raised an alarm over the presence of Insecure direct object references (IDOR) – a type of access control vulnerability in the booking site. The IT wing of the […]