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Sunday, August 31, 2025
TopicIndian Railways

Topic: Indian Railways

Railways launches festive round-trip scheme with 20% rebate on return tickets

The initiative aims to redistribute crowding, facilitate hassle-free bookings, and enhance the utilisation of train services, including special trains, in both directions.

Suspected sabotage attempt near Odisha’s Sundargarh district damages railway track sleepers

Police said a suspected blast damaged several railway sleepers between Rangra & Karmpada. Officials say only goods trains run here & movement has been halted until the section is restored.

Indian railway stations are failing women. Dark corners, broken CCTVs, loitering men, rape

In Haryana’s Kurukshetra, a woman was gang-raped on a train and later lost her leg after an injury on the tracks. ‘I screamed and pleaded with them,’ she said—but no one came.

High-level policy change causes ripples in Railways, pushback from business houses & within

Business houses and different railway zones have sent strongly-worded communications to the Railway Board asking for a reversal of the policy, it is learnt.

NCRTC conducts Namo Bharat trial run from Delhi to Meerut, covering 82 km in less than 1 hour

The Namo Bharat corridor trains halted at every station between Delhi's Sarai Kale Khan and Modipuram in Meerut and successfully completed their trial.

7 die daily on Mumbai trains due to overcrowding, trespassing. PAC’s 2017 solutions ignored

It’s extremely disturbing that thousands of precious lives are lost on the Mumbai Suburban network every year. Especially since causes and solutions are well-known.

Railways suspends 4 staffers, initiates probe after BSF train fiasco

An officer from the Alipurduar Division Coaching Depot and three other employees have been suspended for providing an 'unsuitable/old train' to BSF jawans, Rly ministry announced.

BSF slams Rlys over ‘filthy, dilapidated’ train, 72-hour delay in troop movement for Amarnath Yatra

BSF personnel carrying out an inspection found cockroaches, damaged washrooms soiled with human waste on the dilapidated coaches, which they flagged to Northeast Frontier Railway.

Mumbra train tragedy: Call for automated doors, more trains after at least 4 dead due to overcrowding

2 trains on parallel tracks came too close & their passengers on footboards collided & fell, says Central Railway. Dozen suffered injuries & are recuperating in hospitals.

Land-for-jobs case: All applicants from one state, CBI questions recruitment pattern

In a hearing before Special Judge Vishal Gogne, the probe agency claimed that several applications to railways were cleared the same day allegedly in exchange for gifts to Lalu Yadav & aides.

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A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

Ahead of SCO meet, Russia & China stage maiden joint submarine patrol in Sea of Japan, East China Sea

Joint submarine patrol ‘covered more than 2,000 nautical miles’ and was joined by Russian support vessels. Beijing maintains exercise ‘not directed against any third party’.

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.