West Bengal asks Railways not to send 'Shramik Special' trains till May 26

With normal life thrown out of gear by the region's worst weather disaster, the authorities have been scrambling to restore normalcy

Move to evict encroaches from railway land

Despite this, the railways over the past four years has retrieved 93.33 hectares from encroachment.

'It is for the first time in nearly 18 years that the Lower House (Lok Sabha) sat for this long,' Joshi said.

Around 2.32 lakh vacancies are to be filled in the Railways as 1.32 lakh seats are presently vacant and 1 lakh employees will retire.

The Indian Railways is drawing up a plan to rebuild and right-size the gigantic organisation.

The notice of withdrawal of these tickets and boarding passes comes in wake of the Model Code of Conduct being in force ahead of LS polls.

The redevelopment project of Piyush Goyal-led Railway Ministry can embody separate arrival and departure areas at railway stations.

Railway Board has asked DoPT for immediate repatriation of Sanjiv Kumar for 'breach of official decorum and misconduct'.

The project was sanctioned in 2012-13 at an estimated cost of Rs 1,17.72 crore.

A dry run of the scheme would be undertaken on August 11-12.