Category: Railways

The work under the Gurugram Metro extension project has formally started as the inaugural borehole for conducting a geo-technical survey was drilled near the Millennium City Metro station on Wednesday. The 28.5-km-long Gurugram Metro extension project aims to connect Huda City Centre to Cyber City with stops at several places, including Subhash Chowk, Krishna Chowk, […]

A preliminary probe into the derailment of Sabarmati-Agra Superfast Express near Ajmer has revealed that the loco pilot overshot the red signal after which it collided with two rear wagons of a freight train. Four coaches of the passenger train, which was on its way to Agra, derailed near the Ajmer station on Monday. No […]

As a major relief to commuters, Northern Railways on Wednesday decided to reduce the train fares in the Kashmir Valley. “Railways have reinstated second class ordinary fare on passenger trains in the Valley,” the officials said. The charges have dropped from 40 to 50 per cent. Before the relief, the fare was Rs 35 from […]

The North Western Railway has announced schedule to run special trains on Holi festival from Sriganganagar through Punjab and Haryana.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will virtually lay the foundation stones of six road underbridges and overbridges, besides inaugurating an underbridge under the Ambala division of the Northern Railway on Monday. As per the Railways, the Prime Minister will lay the foundation stone, inaugurate and dedicate to the nation around 2,000 railway infrastructure projects costing over […]

A major tragedy was averted after a driverless freight train with 53 wagons travelled nearly 70 km from Kathua in Jammu and Kashmir before coming to a halt at Unchi Bassi, near Dasuya, in Hoshiarpur district this morning. An inquiry has been ordered into the incident.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday launched multiple development projects, including for education, railway, aviation and road sectors, in Jammu and Kashmir worth over Rs 32,000 crore. From Jammu, the prime minister also launched or laid foundation stone of projects worth Rs 13,500 crore across the country.

National Conference president and Member of Parliament Farooq Abdullah on Tuesday congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Railway Ministry for dedicating the first electric train to the Kashmir Valley. “This is a big step by the railway ministry and Prime Minister Modi and we welcome this initiative. (We) congratulate them on achieving this milestone,” […]

Kashmir will soon be connected to Kanyakumari by rail, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said as he commissioned projects, including the Banihal-Khari-Sumber-Sangaldan (48 km) rail project and the newly electrified Baramulla-Srinagar-Banihal-Sangaldan (185.66 km) section, during his Jammu visit on Tuesday. The Prime Minister also virtually flagged off the first electric train in the Valley and also […]

MLA Ghanshyam Dass Arora said an overbridge would be constructed on rail tracks in Pansara village near Yamunanagar. He said this while addressing a Jan Samvad programme in Ward 9 of the MC here today. With the construction of this overbridge, people of Yamunanagar and surrounding villages would get major relief, he said. The MLA […]

Ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, the Rohtak-Meham-Hansi rail line has become a hot issue between Rohtak MP Arvind Sharma and Rajya Sabha MP Deepender Hooda after Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated it virtually from Rewari on February 16. Sharma has claimed that the Ministry of Railways has accepted his demand for the stoppage of […]

The Indian Railways will start train services on the Banihal-Khari-Sumber-Sangaldan section, a 48.1-kilometre-long significant segment of the country’s most ambitious Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link project, on February 20. “We will get a step closure to realise our dream to connect Srinagar with Kanyakumari,” a source said.