The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) Siliguri unit seized Asiatic elephant tusks (ivory) weighing around 7.5 kg from Rajdhani Express at New Jalpaiguri railway station Saturday afternoon. Two accused have been arrested in the tusk smuggling case.
A small smoke was detected in the Secunderabad-Sirpur-Kagaznagar train this morning due to the issue of brake binding, according to South Central Railway.
A CCTV footage has surfaced in which Nitin Fauji and Rohit Rathore, the prime accused in the murder of Karni Sena chief Sukhdev Singh Gogamedi, are seen at Rewari railway station in Haryana on December 6, a day after they shot the latter dead at his residence in Jaipur.
Union Minister for Railways Ashwini Vaishnaw conducted a comprehensive review of the redevelopment plans for Simhachalam Amrit Railway Station during his visit to Andhra Pradesh's Visakhapatnam.
A 42-year-old man was arrested by Borivali Government Railway Police (GRP) for allegedly beating his wife to death after she refused to give him money for alcohol, the police said on Saturday.
In a bid to clear confusion among commuters, the Dadar station of the Central Railway, which provides an interchange facility to the Western Railway, was renumbered on Saturday.
Union Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Saturday highlighted the central government's commitment to the development of Railways in Andhra Pradesh, adding that Rs 8,406 crores have been sanctioned for the state.
Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel conducted a comprehensive inspection of the ongoing operations related to the 6.5 km stretch of the C-2 project on the Metro Rail Phase-2 route from Motera to Gandhinagar.
The ambitious automatic train protection (ATP) system, Kavach, has so far been deployed on 1465 Route km and 139 locomotives (including Electric Multiple Unit rakes) on South Central Railway sections, as per a government release.
Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha said that the recruitments are periodically done anticipating vacancies and the needs on the ground considering new services, new technologies, mechanisation and new systems that are being done.