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Imagine a railway court functioning in a moving train! In an initiative to speed up disposal of criminal and petty cases which are pending at the Railway Magistrate Court in Kollam, the Thiruvananthapuram division of railways will start ‘Court on Wheels’ in the coming months.

The coach of the ‘court’ will be attached to a train plying in the Thiruvananthapuram division. Any case, ranging from ticketless travel, irregularities in train travel, abuse of woman trave...

A record 12,384 students of 120 schools visited the Science Express on Wednesday and the general visitors were 14,017.A total of 42 children, including 22 girls, studying in 4{+t}{+h}and 5{+t}{+h}classes at the Fishery Primary School at Vasavanipalem, Lawson’s Bay Colony, visited the Science Express Biodiversity exhibition at the Railway Station here on Wednesday.The students were thrilled on going through the exhibits on display at the expo. They spent about two hours going through all...

The first bullet train in India is likely tocome up between these two stations. Though pre-feasibility studies were done onthe entire 650-km long Pune-Mumbai-Ahmedabad section, the government may placeMumbai-Ahmedabad stretch on a priority. It will reduce travel time between thetwo commercial cities from current 8 hours to just 2 hours.

The new rail tunnel linking the troubled Kashmir Valley and Jammu region will help develop Jammu and Kashmir.

The section between Banihal in Jammu and Qazigund in Kashmir is 18 kilometres long.The Banihal-Qazigund section includes an 11-km-long tunnel – India’s longest, 2nd longest in Asia.The opening of the section marks the start of the rail service to the ...