In a bid to expand the green cover, the Maharashtra government recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Railways, under which trees will be planted on the land adjacent to the railway tracks in the state.

Research Designs and Standards Organisation has launched “New Online Vendor Registration System”

John Mathai was the first Railway Minister of independent India.

Indian Railway is the largest national enterprise of India.

Operating ratio of Indian Railways is high on account of social service obligation imposed in Budget.

The Union Minister of Railways Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu has inaugurated the first-ever Indian Railways Human Resources Round Table Conference in New Delhi on June 10, 2017.

Hyderabad’s Kacheguda railway station becomes the first energy efficient station in India. The Kacheguda railway station in Hyderabad, Telangana, has been declared as the first energy-efficient railway station in the country, which now also falls under the A1 category.

India’s first-ever railways disaster management centre is expected to come up near Bengaluru, Karnataka by 2018 and will be used to replicate train accidents to improve rescue operation efforts.

A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between Ministry of Railways and Ministry of AYUSH in New Delhi today to augment the AYUSH system services in its zonal hospitals at New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai and Guwahati.

The name of Elphinstone Road railway station officially changed to Prabhadevi from July 19, 2018.