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New Delhi: Keeping in view the polls ahead, the Government has done a tight rope walking, managing both the revenue to be garnered and avoiding immediate impact on passengers

New Delhi: The Indian Railways in the current year has taken care to ensure connectivity with country’s border areas – a vital aspect in the defence strategy.

New Delhi: Conscious of India joining the exclusive Club of Nations in Mountain Railways that include only Switzerland and Austria, the Indian Railways has taken up the agenda for boosting Rail Tourism.

“Communism is indeed the beginning, and not the end, of human history” and furthermore, the process of revolutionalisation of capitalist (bourgeois) more of production would continue “till the whole existing mode of production is transformed.

New regimes normally face three major tasks – ensure political stability, fulfill its election promises and improve governance making it accountable to the people. It is too early to pass, on the basis of the three criteria, any judgement on the functioning of the two-months old Himachal Pradesh’s Virbhadra Singh-led Congress government. Yet, an attempt needs to be made to perceive the direction of the wind.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Has the political tide turned decisively against the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) Government?

MANILA, PHILIPPINES – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is lending $150 million towards a $500 million project that will build a hydropower plant with a 140-megawatt capacity.

''On a day this February when newspapers front-paged Afzal Guru family's lament over being denied his remains for burial, the sports pages had a story on off-spinner Pervez Rasool, a cricketing sensation from Kashmir, who staked claim to a Test match with a spell that tore through the Australian batting in Chennai recently.

There is considerable disquiet in Dhaka political circles over recent reports suggesting that Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) or other US agencies would set up a regional operating centre in Bangladesh. The proposed move comes in the wake of several visits made by US officials.