More than 1,300 railway stations across India are to be part of the Amrit Bharat Station Scheme; of these, 98 in West Bengal are to be converted to ‘world-class stations’. Will the Centre’s effort come at the cost of the livelihoods of thousands of railway hawkers? Is that what is behind the growing reports of hawker-RPF standoffs? Prasun Chaudhuri wonders
On July 31, Chetansinh Chaudhary allegedly shot dead his superior, assistant sub inspector Tika Ram Meena, and three passengers on board the Jaipur-Mumbai Central Express near Palghar