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India to rename railway ‘coolies’ in modernization drive

New Delhi: India Thursday said it will roll out wifi to hundreds of stations, install 17,000 hi-tech toilets on trains and professionalize its unskilled porters, or “coolies” under a drive to modernize its creaking railways. Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu steered away from introducing contentious passenger fare hikes or freight rate increases as…
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Art fest to jazz up MG Road for summit

Gurgaon: In a city that often wears a scruffy look, a week-long campaign to make the surroundings more presentable gets under way in the first week of March. And it is MG Road that will to be jazzed up.The cultural carnival that is the…