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  Rail passenger fares likely to go up early next year

  India | December 14, 2014 10:03 IST

  New Delhi: The next Rail Budget to be presented early next year could contain a proposal for raising fares to pass on the burden of rising power cost to passengers.The fuel adjustment component-linked tariff revision

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  Mamata Banerjee to continue movement against fuel price, rail fare hike

  India | July 22, 2014 0:01 IST

  Kolkata: Assailing the Narendra Modi government for hiking fuel prices and railway fares, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Monday said her party Trinamool Congress would carry on with its movement to combat such policies."They

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  Congress protests fare hike at minister's Delhi house

  India | July 08, 2014 17:41 IST

  New Delhi: Congress supporters staged a protest outside Railway Minister Sadananda Gowda's residence here Tuesday against the railway fare hike.The supporters, including women, gathered outside Gowda's residence on Tughlaq Road in New Delhi around 3

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  Arun Jaitley says Rail fare hike is 'UPA legacy'

  Politics | July 08, 2014 9:30 IST

  New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley blamed the recent hike in rail fares on decisions taken under the previous UPA regime and said that the BJP-led government should be judged from what is presented tomorrow

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  Budget session: Lok Sabha adjourned for the day amidst din over price rise

  Politics | July 07, 2014 14:54 IST

  New Delhi: The Lok Sabha was Monday adjourned for the day following an uproar over the issue of price rise. The house was earlier adjourned twice over the same issue.Amid the din, Speaker Sumitra Mahajan

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  Congress workers stage 'rail roko' in Maharashtra against fare hike

  Politics | June 25, 2014 16:41 IST

  Mumbai: Congress workers today staged a ‘rail roko' in various parts of Maharashtra, excluding Mumbai, to protest the train fare hike.“We decided to exclude Mumbai, where the ‘rail roko' demonstrations were slated from 11 AM

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  Partial rollback: Rail fare hike not to apply on suburban travel upto 80 kms

  India | June 24, 2014 21:42 IST

  New Delhi: In a partial rollback, the Railways today announced that the recent hike of 14.2 per cent in passenger fares will not apply to second class suburban journey upto 80 kms, a decision that

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  Delhi Congress protests against rail fare hike

  Politics | June 24, 2014 18:54 IST

  New Delhi: The Congress party's Delhi unit Tuesday protested here against the central government's decision to hike rail fares.Led by Delhi Congress chief Arvinder Singh Lovely, party workers halted a train for some time at

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  Narendra Modi must exempt poorer sections from rail fare hike

  Politics | June 23, 2014 16:50 IST

  New Delhi: Normally when a new government takes over the reins of power after getting a massive victory in polls, the first thing it does is to assure the electorate that the government is determined

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  Let this be the final rail fare hike, urges Shiv Sena

  Politics | June 23, 2014 12:42 IST

  Mumbai: Reluctantly accepting the steep hike in railway fares and freight rates, the Shiv Sena here Monday urged the government this should be "the final increase".In a sharp editorial in the party mouthpiece "Saamana" flaying

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  Fare hike inevitable for railway's survival: Gadkari

  Politics | June 23, 2014 6:56 IST

  Khajuraho (MP): Amid protests by major opposition parties against steep hike in rail fare and freight rates, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari today said the decision was “inevitable” for the survival of the railways considering its

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  Would urge PM to roll back rail fare hike: Uddhav Thackeray

  Politics | June 22, 2014 9:04 IST

  Mumbai: Terming the train fare hike as “shocking”, Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray yesterday said he will speak to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and request him to roll it back.“The fare hike is shocking. Sena

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  Protesters block railway tracks, burn PM effigy to protest rail fare hike

  India | June 21, 2014 20:23 IST

  Lucknow: Congress and Samajwadi Party workers today blocked railway tracks and burnt effigies of Narendra Modi and Railway Minister Sadanand Gowda while protesting against the “steep” hike in rail fares announced by the government in

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  Congress, CPI(M) took to streets protesting against rail fare hike in Delhi

  Politics | June 21, 2014 17:33 IST

  New Delhi: Congress and CPI(M) today took to the streets in the national capital protesting the "massive" rail fare hike and demanding its immediate rollback, saying the government's decision will lead to rise in prices

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  Rail fare hike difficult but correct decision: Arun Jaitley

  Politics | June 21, 2014 18:01 IST

  New Delhi: Defending the steep hike in rail fare and freight rates as a 'difficult but correct decision', Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said the railways can survive only if users pay for availing of

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  Rail fare hike was inevitable: Ravi Shankar Prasad

  Politics | June 21, 2014 17:05 IST

  New Delhi: Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad Saturday justified the government's decision to hike railway passenger fares, saying the increase was inevitable as the previous Congress-led government had left the railways in a shambles."The UPA

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  Rail fare hike difficult but correct decision, says Jaitley

  June 22, 2014 17:21 IST

  New Delhi: Defending the steep hike in rail fare and freight rates as a ‘difficult but correct decision', Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said the railways can survive only if users pay for availing of

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  Rail fare hike applicable on tickets that were booked in advance too

  India | June 21, 2014 8:26 IST

  New Delhi: Railways, which hiked passenger fares by 14.2 per cent from June 25, on Friday said those who have purchased tickets earlier at pre-revised rates, will have to pay the differences either at booking

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  Rail fare shock: Mumbaikars to shell out over two-times more

  India | June 20, 2014 22:03 IST

  Mumbai: Already hit hard by the poor and inefficient services, the woes of the suburban rail commuters in the metropolis are going to be compounded further with the season ticket rates going up by more

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  Rail hike is what UPA govt had already proposed: BJP

  Politics | June 20, 2014 21:34 IST

  New Delhi: BJP today sought to defend the government's decision to hike both passenger fares and freight rates saying it has only implemented what the previous government proposed and got approved in the interim budget.