Anticipating problems related to land acquisition in West Bengal, the Railways might take a preemptive step of pushing by a…
The village of Rohanpara serves as an example of the limited utility of India’s ‘one-size-fits-all’ centrally sponsored schemes when it…
Rohanpara is a small village in Ambedkar Nagar district, tucked away on the eastern fringes of Uttar Pradesh.
After the hike in rail fares earlier this month, get ready to shell out more for quality rail food, especially…
A district some 160 km south of Delhi has become a laboratory of independent India?s most ambitious plan of providing…
The Indian Railway Finance Corporation, which has stayed away from financing core railway infrastructure projects due to cost and time…
The country’s largest Public-Private Partnership project for constructing an elevated rail corridor in Mumbai has hit a roadblock even before…
The Indian Railways is to set to trim its plan outlay for 2012-13 for the second time in a month,…
Despite Prime Minister Manmohan Singh?s optimism about the role of private investment in realising the 12th Plan goal of $1-trillion…
The Centre?s plan to win over state governments by providing them flexibility in running centrally sponsored schemes has found few…
Foreign direct investment is set to flow into the building of ?fixed railway infrastructure?, ending a long-preserved policy of allowing…
Finding it tough to even meet its operating expenses, railways is mulling a marginal increase in passenger rail fares.
Successive Central, state and local governments have failed to address the administrative problems being faced by Indian cities.
Around 10 major infrastructure companies, including Punj Llyod, Lanco Infratech, Essar, TATA Aldesa, Gammon and SOMA, have been shortlisted by…
The irony was not lost on anyone when Meerut, part of the ancient Harappan settlement renowned for its sophisticated drainage…
The Centre is working on a new scheme of affordable housing for the economically weaker sections in urban areas.
The rollback in railway fare hikes immediately after they were announced in the rail budget has hurt the national transporter?s…
Almost two years after its on-board train catering services was discontinued, Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation is devising a…
