A division bench of chief justice Pradeep Nandrajog and justice Bharati Dangre was hearing an application by KPP Nair, seeking restoration of his public interest litigation (PIL), which was disposed of earlier this year after the Railways had submitted... read more

Kotak, along with CR officials, visited Ghatkopar railway station on Friday. He said the rush of passengers exiting from the Metro station and converging on Ghatkopar railway platform is chaotic. read more

Among the first to be taken up under MUTP-3 will be doubling of railway line for the new suburban corridor between Panvel and Karjat. read more

According to a report on the July 3, 2018, Gokhale bridge collapse that killed two people, had the Railways taken note of its own four-year-old findings in the bridge register, the incident could have been averted. read more

This comes after the Railways decided to increase the Mumbai Urban Transport (MUTP) surcharge to 25% from 2021, as opposed to the current 18%. The union cabinet approved this on March 7. read more

The move was criticised by BJP’s Indore MP Shankar Lalwani. He wrote to Union minister Piyush Goyal, saying that it is against Indian culture to offer such services in the presence of women. read more

The Southern Railway had issued a circular asking station masters and train operation controllers to communicate in Hindi or in English and not in regional languages to avoid any miscommunication. On Friday, the circular was withdrawn. read more

According to the Central Railway (CR), the duration of the journey from Friday has reduced from three hours and 10-20 minutes to two hours and 35-40 minutes. read more

Railways has taken steps in the past nine years to make the journey of women commuters safer. read more

Following the criticism, in April 2018, the railway changed the specification and started planning to move towards lighter blankets read more

The train services between Odisha’s Bhadrak and Andhra Pradesh’s Vizianagaram have been suspended and inward trains towards Bhubaneswar and Puri will be restricted from the evening of May 2. read more

Ahead of the tea cup fiasco, the Railways was forced to withdraw tickets with photos of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. read more

The Election Commission is learnt to have issued a fresh show cause to the Railways, this time on the use of paper tea cups with “main bhi chowkidar” slogan. read more

The notice was issued over the use of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pictures on rail tickets and Air India boarding passes as prima facie it violates the model code of conduct. read more

END OF AN ERA NR and NER changing the over 150-year-old system of allotting heavy iron trunks to guards. Now tamper-proof safes will be installed in their coaches to carry all emergency essentials read more