Off The Rails

Banished from Mongolia: A dubious project raises questions about consulting firm McKinsey

The case and the events that led up to it are part of a disturbing pattern for the giant.

Anand Tumurtogoo, ProPublica
&
Ian MacDougall, Propublica
· May 20, 2019 · 08:30 pm
One chart that shows just how absurdly wasteful Modi’s Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train line is

Incredibly, the government of India will spend more on this one line than it does on rail safety, Swachh Bharat, schools, highways or health.

Shoaib Daniyal
· Dec 13, 2015 · 05:30 pm
A ticket examiner captures the beauty of Indian Railways in these colourful paintings

An Indian railways ticket examiner has created beautiful art work capturing life around trains, platforms and stations.

Scroll Staff
· Jul 09, 2015 · 04:00 pm

What a UK probe into a French company tells us about metro contracts in India

Though UK investigators wrote to the CBI in February about Alstom paying bribes to get Delhi Metro contract, French firm was awarded Kochi Metro deal in August.

Shibaji Roychoudhury
· Sep 13, 2014 · 09:00 am