Board sent a proposal to DoPT, under which only officers with 2 yrs of service left would be considered for GM post, it is learnt. Move could have big implications for railway bureaucracy.
The two countries will lay 89 km of tracks, costing roughly Rs. 4,033 crores, connecting Banarhat in West Bengal with Samtse in Bhutan, and Kokrajhar in Assam with Gelephu in Bhutan.
Suffering from multiple congenital disorders, Sandarbh Gupta has submitted a plea in Uttarakhand High Court that his father, in Lucknow since 2020, be posted near Dehradun.
Bairabi-Sairang rail line, inaugurated by Modi, has finally put Aizawl on the national railway grid. It’s expected to boost local economy, benefit students, patients & businesspersons.
The initiative aims to redistribute crowding, facilitate hassle-free bookings, and enhance the utilisation of train services, including special trains, in both directions.
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.
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.
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.
Pinarayi Vijayan once called Vellappally Natesan, the general secretary of SNDP Yogam, Kerala’s Pravin Togadia. Now he is giving his hate speech a free pass.
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham says bill will be 'well-timed, as Ukraine is making concessions for peace and Putin is all talk, continuing to kill the innocent'.
Islamabad-based think-tank PICSS's new report says Pakistan saw 'pronounced escalation' in violence last year, with 3,413 conflict-related deaths compared to 1,950 in previous year.
Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.
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