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Tuesday, November 25, 2025
TopicIndian Railways

Topic: Indian Railways

After 6 requests for transfer & letter to PMO, railway employee’s 9-yr-old paraplegic son moves court

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.

Through forests & mountains, how Rlys overcame hurdles to build Mizoram’s Bairabi-Sairang line

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.

Rlys eyes real estate windfall, opens up 3 prime Mumbai plots with 1st-ever revenue share model

The Rail Land Development Authority plans to open up three plots at Mahalaxmi, Bandra East and Parel for development on a 99-year lease.

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.

On Camera

Worker exploitation powers the firework industry in Tamil Nadu’s Sivakasi

For an industry globally classified as hazardous, protections such as health insurance and a provident fund for workers are necessities. In Sivakasi, they remain elusive.

172 countries & counting, India looks to hit new record in rice exports. But there’s a flip side

The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.

India and France to jointly manufacture HAMMER air-to-surface missile

Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.