Hema Ramaprasad, for CNN, Author at newswatchplus.ph https://www.newswatchplus.ph Fri, 05 Jul 2024 12:33:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 /wp-content/uploads/2025/08/cropped-logo-nwp-32x32.png Hema Ramaprasad, for CNN, Author at newswatchplus.ph https://www.newswatchplus.ph 32 32 India has closed its railways for the first time in 167 years. Now trains are being turned into hospitals https://www.newswatchplus.ph/2020/04/06/india-has-closed-its-railways-for-the-first-time-in-167-years-now-trains-are-being-turned-into-hospitals/ Mon, 06 Apr 2020 20:32:46 +0000 https://newswatchplus-staging.azurewebsites.net/?p= (CNN) — When Prime Minister Narendra Modi imposed a nationwide lockdown on March 25, Indian Railways took the unprecedented move of suspending passenger trains across the country until April 14. It was the first time in 167 years that Asia’s oldest rail network had been suspended. Now the railway network has decided to convert as many as

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