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As the Railways gears up to drive India’s infrastructure growth, the Ministry of Railways is looking away from traditional methods of financing track laying and maintenance machinery on its own and is increasingly looking at contractualising the process through private players.

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Rashtriya Rozgar Mela in which appointment letters were distributed to 71,000 new recruits. Read further on Dynamite News:

LUCKNOW: Probably breaking all-time records of penalty collection by individual train ticket examiner, two ticket checking staff of northeastern railway (NER) of Lucknow division have collected more than Rs 2 crore each.

In a fresh operation relating to alleged land for job scam in Railways during tenure of RJD chief Lalu Prasad as Railway Minister, CBI on Monday conducted raid at the residence of former Bihar Chief Minister Rabri Devi. Read further on Dynamite News:

MUMBAI: The Bombay high court last week in interim orders, directed that no further demolitions are to be carried out until March 1 "in contravention of the Supreme Court order anywhere on Western Railway lands in Greater Mumbai."

CHENNAI: Medium pacer Arundathi Reddy came up with a brilliant performance (4/30) to help Railways register a massive eight-wicket win against Tamil Nadu in the pre-quarterfinals of the BCCI Senior Women One Day Trophy (50 Overs) at the JSCA International Stadium Complex in Ranchi on Wednesday.

Rejected at least 10 times by statutory bodies, the mega Hubballi-Ankola rail project has now ostensibly met the same fate at the hands of a seven-member inspection committee of the National Board for Wildlife.

INDORE: Wicketkeeper-batter Himanshu Mantri hit a fine century (126, 194 balls, 16 fours, 2 sixes) in the second innings to help defending champions Madhya Pradesh make 257 for 5 declared and set Vidarbha a target of 407 in their Ranji Trophy Group D match on Thursday.