RANAGHAT: Railway minister Miss Mamata Banerjee today flagged off the commencement of work for conversion of 15 kilometre long narrow gauge line between Krishnagar junction and Shantipur junction into broad gauge at Ranaghat today.

Pool money, get railway station

Where there is a will, there is a way. The residents of this hitherto non-descript village in Gurgaon district have proved this old adage true even in the present era, when authorities

Gurgaon: For 25 years, residents of Tajnagar village near Gurgaon lobbied for a railway station in their village. When their demand was not met, the villagers decided to take matters in their own hands

Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said she had already altered the land acquisition template of the Indian Railways in a bid to ensure no land was forcefully acquired for projects undertaken by her ministry.

In a bid to persuade farmers to part with their land for rail projects, the railways has decided to offer every land loser family a job as well as compensation. Railway minister Mamata Banerjee announced that she had amended railway rules to make this arrangement possible.

The monthlong Maharashtra leg of the Red Ribbon Express, which was flagged off from Delhi last year, will begin on Monday with the train painted yellow and red chugging into Amalner station in Jalgaon.

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Mumbai: The state government may end up derailing suburban railway expansion if it doesn