Railways

The Union Government launched India’s first Vande Bharat Sleeper train on Howrah-Guwahati (Kamakhya) route in West Bengal and Assam from Malda Town railway station on January 17, 2026. The service will reduce the travel time […]

Kernex Microsystems (India) Limited won a contract worth Rs  24.66 billion for supply, installation, testing and commissioning of on-board KAVACH loco equipment as per Research Design and Standards Organisation (RDSO) specification no. RDSO/SPN/196/2020, ver 4.0 […]

The Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Limited (DFCCIL) has handled a total of 892 interchange trains between the dedicated freight corridor (DFC) network and total five zones of the Indian Railways (IR) on January […]

Indian Railways has planned to launch nine new Amrit Bharat Express trains across key corridors. These include the Guwahati (Kamakhya)-Rohtak in Assam and Haryana, Dibrugarh-Lucknow (Gomti Nagar) in Assam and Uttar Pradesh, New Jalpaiguri-Nagercoil in […]

South Western Railway (SWR) has commissioned 56 km out of the total 68 km of Kadur-Chikmagalur-Belur section under the Kadur-Chikmagalur-Sakleshpur New Line Project in Karnataka. The project involves laying of a 93 km long new broad gauge […]

Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL) has completed 100 m tunnel excavation work for the Budni-Indore New Railway Line Project in Madhya Pradesh. The project involves construction of 205.5 km long rail between Budni and Indore, […]

Indian Railways (IR) has commenced the trial run of the Hydrogen train on the Jind-Sonipat section of the Northern Railways (NR) zone in Haryana. It is being conducted under the supervision of the Research Designs […]

Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) completed the electrification work for Tinsukia-Dibrugarh and Makum-Ledo section in connection with the Guwahati-Tinsukia-Dibrugarh and Simaluguri-Dibrugarh Railway Electrification Project. The project involves electrification of the 650 km long railway line between […]

The Ministry of Railways (MoR) has approved construction of the Kaithal-Ambala New Rail Line Project in Haryana. Besides, the survey for the project is expected to commence by April 2026. Alongside the proposed new railway […]

Rail Land Development Authority (RLDA) has completed construction of two type-IV residential towers with 28 modern railway quarters in connection with the Redevelopment of Ajni Railway Station project. On the east side, the G+3 station […]

Indian Railways (IR) is likely to commence the pilot run of the hydrogen train soon on the Jind-Sonipat route in Haryana as the project nears completion. With this, an uninterrupted power supply of 11 kilovolt […]

The cost for implementation of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail (HSR) Corridor Project is likely to escalate to Rs 1,980 billion. Slow land acquisition, finalisation of rolling stock, and clearance processes have significantly increased the overall […]

Eastern Railways (ER) has commenced the acquisition of land for the Bhagalpur-Dumka-Rampurhat Rail Line Doubling Project. The project involves doubling a 177 km long rail line from Bhagalpur to Rampurhat via Dumka in Bihar, Jharkhand […]

South Western Railway (SWR) has achieved freight loading of 38.36 million tonnes (mt) during the financial year (FY) 2025-26 (till December 2025), representing an increase of 18.5 per cent over corresponding period of the last […]

National High Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL) achieved the final breakthrough of a 1.5 km long mountain tunnel located between the Virar and Boisar station in Palghar district in connection with the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail […]

Indian Railways (IR) has announced to launch the first Vande Bharat Sleeper train on Guwahati (Assam)-Howrah (West Bengal) route in January 2026. The trial, testing, and certification of the train have been successfully completed. The […]

The Commissioner of Railway Safety (CRS) conducted a safety inspection on the 39.75 km long Adraj Moti-Bijapur section of the Adraj Moti-Viajapur Gauge Conversion Project on December 29 and December 30, 2025. Besides, speed trials […]

Western Railway (WR) commissioned the Kavach 4.0 automatic train protection system on the 96 km long Bajwa (Vadodara)-Ahmedabad section on December 29, 2025. The system was operationalised with the first Kavach-equipped run of the Sankalp […]

National High-Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL) has achieved a physical progress of about 55.63 per cent on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail (MAHSR) Corridor Project as on November 30, 2025. The overall financial progress stands at […]

The Railway Board (RB) has approved four new railway line projects in Odisha, covering 312 km at an estimated cost of around Rs 90.2 billion under the public private partnership (PPP) mode. These are: Jajpur […]