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Bibek Debroy: Railway thieves

I wish I knew more about Paupa Rao Naidu. I came upon his name through Hargrave Lee Adam. He was a crime writer from the early 20th century, with the qualification that he only wrote about true crime. He was born in 1867 and wrote extensively on such diverse topics as Burke and Hare (murderers who sold bodies for anatomical dissection), the trial of George Henry Lamson (he murdered his brother-in-law for property), Pritchard, the poisoner, and other real-life crime stories.At the time, these real-life crime stories and consequent trials were the rage. Having written extensively on western crime, he decided to turn towards the east and the first book he produced was called Oriental Crime, published in 1908. The information was gathered entirely from talking to British civil servants. The second such book was specific to India and was titled The Indian Criminal. The information for this too was obtained in a similar way. The preface stated, "This work has been compiled mainly from verba

Japan to invest $25 billion in India: Suresh Prabhu

He said the relationship had its ups and downs as some years ago there were some peculiarity in the relationship

Angry commuters halt trains at Badlapur, suburban services hit

The protest started after a level-crossing gate signal caused a delay by over 20 minutes early this morning

Parliamentary panel advocates variable fare structure in railways

The number of passengers in railways in 2012-13 was 8,421 millions, has come down to 8,151.90 millions in 2015-16

Over Rs 35,000-cr investment in Railways through PPP

Twelfth Five-Year Plan issued by erstwhile Planning Commission, 25 per cent of total Eleventh Plan Investments of Railways came from Extra-Budgetary Resources

Railways to have CSR cell for greater involvement of corporates

According to the law, companies have to spend 2 per cent of their profits for CSR purpose

Aircraft comfort on trains

After the success of high-speed Gatiman and Talgo, the Railways will launch Humsafar later this month

Bibek Debroy: Bollywood Mail

It was the influence of Bollywood that reduced Toofan Express to Toofan Mail

Field trials of train collision avoidance system undertaken

Safety system aims at preventing train accidents caused due to driver's fault of ignoring signal or in case of over-speeding

Govt identifies 26 port-rail connectivity work worth Rs 29.5k cr

22 connectivity projects have also been identified by IPRCL, 4 have been awarded for implementation

First PPP station redevelopment in Madhya Pradesh

It is one of eight stations selected by the railways ministry for redevelopment & modernisation through the PPP

Railways blames Delhi govt, moves NGT for removal of slum clusters

Under attack from the green tribunal for failure to keep the tracks clean

Austrian, German engineers help shore up rail links in northeast

All-Barak Youth Students Association has demanded a CBI probe alleging irregularities in the laying of the railway track

PMO might take a call on steel freight, import price

According to the Railways' website, a company needs to pay Rs 213 to transport a tonne of coal for 125 km (kilometre) and Rs 241 for a tonne of iron ore

ARSS Infra JV wins Rs 44 crore contract from Railways

Work is scheduled to be completed in 23 months

Railway minister orders probe into train services' disruption

Services were hugely affected for nearly an hour following power failure caused by theft of a battery box at Mahim station

India on the path of becoming economic superpower: Rajnath

Terming the Railways as the 'best performing sector', Singh said several lakh crores of rupees were invested in it

Railway unions threaten indefinite strike from July 11

Railways employ about 13 lakh workers and any strike would severely affect train movement across the country

Railways to seek $500 million from World Bank for station development

Station development is a focus area for the cash-strapped behemoth

Railways discusses $30-bn fund with World Bank as anchor investor

Rail Minister Suresh Prabhu had floated the idea of the fund after a visit to Washington DC in January 2016