Raghvendra Rao is Senior Assistant Editor. Covers Information & Broadcasting Ministry, Election Commission, Department of Personnel & Training, the Union Cabinet and Lok Sabha.

January 03, 2008 00:41 IST
In a bid to take care of emergency medical needs of its passengers...
Thu, Jan 03, 2008
January 02, 2008 00:11 IST
Having brought the Forest Rights Act into force on December 31, 2007...
Wed, Jan 02, 2008
December 26, 2007 23:51 IST
Facing flak over poor quality of bedrolls and sanitation services on board numerous trains...
Wed, Dec 26, 2007
December 26, 2007 00:55 IST
Having publicly backed the Subhash Chandra-promoted Indian Cricket League...
Wed, Dec 26, 2007
December 24, 2007 23:56 IST
For hundreds of villages in the border areas of Arunachal Pradesh, sunset has long been synonymous with darkness.
Mon, Dec 24, 2007
December 21, 2007 01:23 IST
More than 500 persons have been killed and 1,700 injured in 1,478 railway accidents on the Indian Railways network since 2002.
Fri, Dec 21, 2007
December 15, 2007 01:33 IST
As the six-coach toy train, chugging on a two-feet-wide special narrow gauge approaches a railway station called Water Pipe...
Sat, Dec 15, 2007
December 15, 2007 00:05 IST
A goods train, a motor trolley or a light engine will pilot all passenger-carrying trains traveling through the Northeast Frontier Railways...
Sat, Dec 15, 2007
December 10, 2007 00:51 IST
Taking off from Delhi airport could be quite a wait in the coming weeks once the fog sets in.
Mon, Dec 10, 2007
December 08, 2007 01:09 IST
Imagine picking up your mobile phone, dialing a number, keying in travel details responding to an interactive voice...
Sat, Dec 08, 2007
December 05, 2007 01:04 IST
Even as the Union Government is clearing the decks for Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati’s proposal to set up a greenfield...
Wed, Dec 05, 2007
December 05, 2007 00:14 IST
The Railway Ministry’s move to replace the “safety surcharge” on passenger tickets...
Wed, Dec 05, 2007
December 02, 2007 00:38 IST
It is no secret that the Railways Ministry keeps on announcing new railway lines and gauge conversion works each year in the Rail Budget...
Sun, Dec 02, 2007
November 28, 2007 23:49 IST
After having secured the approval of the Union Cabinet to set up four Operational Commands to monitor...
Wed, Nov 28, 2007
November 28, 2007 00:53 IST
In a major setback to the Railway ministry, its flagship Dedicated Freight Corridor...
Wed, Nov 28, 2007
November 27, 2007 00:40 IST
At the centre of a territorial dispute between India and China, Arunachal Pradesh appears set for new developments...
Tue, Nov 27, 2007
November 23, 2007 00:05 IST
Smuggling of gold, silver and even cash through Railways? Even though it may sound like a scene straight out of a Bollywood potboiler...
Fri, Nov 23, 2007
November 21, 2007 23:48 IST
The Indian Railway plan to set up a Dedicated Freight Corridor on the Western and Eastern routes appears to be getting more complicated by the day.
Wed, Nov 21, 2007
November 16, 2007 23:54 IST
Pakyong in Sikkim is all set to get the first of the three Greenfield airports to be constructed in the Northeastern Region.
Fri, Nov 16, 2007
November 13, 2007 23:34 IST
It seems Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav’s dream of laying a railway line connecting his native village with that of his wife...
Tue, Nov 13, 2007
November 13, 2007 00:52 IST
Witness recently to intense lobbying among senior Railway officers and unprecedented controversy over the selection of the Chairman Railway Board...
Tue, Nov 13, 2007
November 02, 2007 23:25 IST
Moving towards curtailing annual expenses of around Rs 400-600 crore incurred on purchasing electricity from state...
Fri, Nov 02, 2007
October 27, 2007 00:59 IST
The Indian Railways’ plan to provide reverse osmosis purified drinking water at Rs 3 per litre by involving private players to set up water...
Sat, Oct 27, 2007
October 25, 2007 00:17 IST
In what could give a major fillip to the Indian Railways’ cash surplus figures for the current and subsequent financial years...
Thu, Oct 25, 2007
October 19, 2007 23:44 IST
The final study report prepared by the Japan International Cooperation Agency on the ambitious Dedicated...
Fri, Oct 19, 2007



