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Foreign firms to develop train tech in India: Suresh Prabhu

Prabhu said the Indian Railways is going to use new technologies in every area from ticketing to emergency response

Rebooting railways

The key issue is to enhance the carrier's autonomy

Railways to launch 'Yatri Mitra Sewa' at major stations

Railways said that passengers will be able to access the service through a mobile application that is being developed by the CRIS

Railways goes down new track to power growth

It is willing to let go of its budgetary independence and restructure its companies in order to make itself more viable commercially and less important politically

Confirmed seat on demand by 2020: Railways

Manoj Sinha said there is a huge gap between passenger requirement and the existing infrastructure

Congress, Left demand roll back of rail surge pricing

Centre on Wednesday had announced surge pricing on Rajdhani, Shatabdi and Duronto trains through flexi fare system

Opposition wants railway fare hike rolled back

CPI-M pointed out that the scheme excludes AC I coach and executive Chair, reflecting the pro-rich bias of the government

Arvind Kejriwal demands roll back of 'surge pricing' in railways

Kejriwal's remarks came a day after Indian Railways announced to increase ticket price of Rajdhani, Shatabdi and Duronto express trains

Railways to start surge pricing tomorrow

The dynamic system to applicable from Sept 9; prices will go up by 10% for every 10% tickets sold

Service tax should be shared with railways: Parliamentary panel

Panel also noted that the concessions given by the Railways on various categories should also be taken up with the ministries concerned

Railways set to roll out 2 major reform initiatives

It will set up a regulatory authority for fixing fares and create an infrastructure development fund

Railways seek non-budget funding for infrastructure development

Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu said that World Bank had agreed to anchor the Railway Infrastructure Development Fund with a corpus of $5 billion over 7 year

Prabhu advocates high speed technology for railways

He said that advance technology always plays a great role in the nation building

Railways to float EOI for ultra high speed trains

Indian Railways will open up an expression of interest on Sep 6 for developing, constructing and running an ultra high speed railway system in India

Indian Railways slams reports of mistreating Indian Women's hockey team

There were reports that the team was forced to sit on the floor while they were travelling in Bokaro-Allepey Express train

Rail Card to replace season tickets on suburban trains

The public sector transporter is in talks with 31 banks to firm up the co-branding proposal

Railways get Rs 24,000 cr for infrastructure in 9 states

CCEA chaired by Narendra Modi passed massive line expansion programme; total length is 1937 km

Railways to create Rs 30,000 crore fund for remunerative projects

To attract investors for the expansion and modernisation of rail infrastructure

Railways to reduce energy bill considerably

On power front, railways is planing to save Rs 3,000 crore in sourcing electricity by proposing to procure power through competitive bidding

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