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Friday, August 8, 2025
TopicIndian Railways

Topic: Indian Railways

Railways has spent almost Rs 920 crore to stop Covid-19 spread amid huge losses

Health ministry is set to reimburse the railways ministry its expenditure on Covid-19-related activities, after a Union Cabinet takes a decision in this regard.

Railways ready with plan to convert coaches into isolation wards, ICUs for Covid-19 patients

PM Modi has instructed the railways to turn some coaches into isolation wards, so that people in remote areas without medical facilities can be reached.

Rail coach as ICU — how Modi govt plans to beat healthcare gaps in remote areas

The Modi govt has been thinking of innovative ways to expand its medical capacity in order to address the rising incidence of COVID-19 in India.

Passenger trains cancelled till 31 March due to COVID-19, buses & metros also suspended

High-level committee chaired by Cabinet Secretary asks states to lock down districts where coronavirus cases have been detected, allow only essential services.

12 passengers who travelled by two different trains test positive for coronavirus

While eight of the 12 passengers had travelled from Delhi to Ramagundam on AP Sampark Kranti Express on March 13, rest had travelled on Godan Express from Mumbai to Jabalpur on 16th March.

Indian Railways cancel 84 more trains till 31 March due to COVID-19 pandemic

The national transporter had already cancelled around 99 trains Wednesday, taking the total number of cancelled trains to 155.

Railways hike platform ticket from Rs 10 to Rs 50 to regulate crowds in view of COVID-19

This has been done by six divisions of the Western railway zone and other zones are likely to follow suit soon.

Modi govt has put 498 crawling rail projects worth Rs 6.75 lakh crore on temporary freeze

The projects will be kept alive by allocating token amounts, but some ‘critical’ and ‘super critical’ ones will be prioritised, rail ministry officials say.

Fast trains, slow privatisation: How Modi govt should roll back state ownership of railways

50 private stations and 150 trains should help the govt learn, and frame sensible rules that are neither unfair to operators nor attract scandal.

100 years in the making, why Kolkata’s east-west corridor is world’s slowest metro project

The British had conceptualised a metro across the Hooghly river in 1921. But the east-west Line 2 of the Kolkata Metro is unlikely to be completed even by 2021.

On Camera

US has misread India. New Delhi will hedge, push back, and assert

India’s foreign policy today is driven less by Western alignment or global liberalism and more by domestic political imperatives — economic, ideological, and electoral.

Smartphones, gems, pharma: Which Indian exports will be worst hit by Trump tariffs, which will be spared

Electronics—specifically smartphones—& energy & pharma products make up 30% of Indian exports to US. 25% tariff on India came into effect Thursday, extra 25% to kick in by August-end.

Pakistan army chief Asim Munir to attend CENTCOM chief’s farewell, second visit to US in two months

Munir was earlier in America in June when he had a two-hour luncheon meeting with the US president at the White House.

Pakistan, Dhaka have played Washington well. Back home, Modi ecosystem has an inner conflict

To protect ourselves from Trumpian diplomacy, first we must introspect the bipolarity within our establishment discourse.