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  Auto, taxi drivers to be trained to promote tourism

  India | February 27, 2015 23:10 IST

  New Delhi: The railway ministry will train taxi and autorickshaw drivers under the “Incredible Rail for Incredible India” programme, as announced by Railway minister Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu in his maiden Rail budget on Thursday. It

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  Sena slams Prabhu for depriving Maharashtra in Railway Budget

  Politics | February 27, 2015 18:12 IST

  Mumbai: A day after Suresh Prabhu presented the Railway budget, a disappointed Shiv Sena today said barring a few announcements Maharashtra has not received any “long-term benevolence” from the Centre and that much more was

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  Suresh Prabhu rules out privatisation of Railways

  Politics | February 27, 2015 17:03 IST

  New Delhi: Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu on Friday ruled out privatisation of Railways and retrenchment of the workforce, saying the public transporter was committed to protect the interests of the employees even if private investment

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  11 #CelebTrains that Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu forget to talk about!

  Who cares | February 27, 2015 10:39 IST

  Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu presented the budget today as entire nation sat glued to their TV sets.But for Twitteraties Rail Budget 2015 was yet another occasion to make a trend go viral, hence #CelebTrains!With clearly

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  Rail Budget 2015: Full Text of Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu's speech

  February 26, 2015 17:23 IST

  New Delhi: Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu in his first Rail Budget announced a record investment plan of over Rs. 1 lakh crore in 2015-16 while sparing the passengers of a fare hike.Here's the full text

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  Rail Budget lacks vision, road map to execute ideas: Opposition

  Politics | February 26, 2015 15:52 IST

  New Delhi: Opposition today attacked the first full-fledged Railway budget of the BJP-led NDA government saying it lacked vision and road map to execute the “nice ideas it is full of”.Leader of Congress in Lok

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  Rail Budget 2015: Freight rate hike may push up commodity prices

  February 26, 2015 14:54 IST

  New Delhi: Cement, coal, steel and urea prices are likely to go up with the Railways Minister proposing freight hike up to 10 per cent for various commodities.The railway budget proposals, presented by Railway Minister

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  Rail Budget: Public disappointed over no new train announcements

  February 26, 2015 14:56 IST

  New Delhi: No new trains were announced in the Railway Budget today by Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu who assured Parliament that these would be announced in the ongoing session itself, pending completion of track renewal

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  Rail Budget 2015: Railways to hike train speed to reduce travel time between metros

  February 26, 2015 15:03 IST

  New Delhi: The speed of trains connecting major metro cities would be increased up to 200 kilometres per hour (kmph) on nine select railway corridors in a bid to reduce travel time, Railway Minister Suresh

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  Rail Budget spares fare hike, promises modern, global network

  February 26, 2015 13:56 IST

  New Delhi: Keeping passenger fares unchanged, Minister Suresh Prabhu presented his maiden budget for Indian Railways Thursday, promising to balance passenger needs and long-term interests of the organisation to benchmark it globally on quality, safety

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  Prabhu proposes lowest operating ratio for railways in 9 years

  February 26, 2015 13:29 IST

  New Delhi: Addressing the pressing issue of finances for the Indian Railways, Minister Suresh Prabhu Thursday proposed an operating ratio below 90 percent to increase revenues for the system.The railways' operating ratio, that has been

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  Rail Budget 2015: Volatility in railway-linked firms' stocks

  February 27, 2015 10:26 IST

  Mumbai: As Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu started presenting his maiden budget to the Lok Sabha, stocks of companies associated with the public transporter experienced marked volatility in Thursday's afternoon trade session.Stocks of companies like Texmaco

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  Suggestions on social media used in Rail Budget 2015

  February 26, 2015 13:14 IST

  New Delhi: Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu Thursday said his ministry received an overwhelming response and suggestions on social media during the formative phase of the Railway Budget 2015-16."We received over 20,000 responses from people on

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  Rail Budget 2015: Top passenger friendly features

  February 26, 2015 13:41 IST

  New Delhi: Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu presented the Rail Budget 2015 today in the Lok Sabha. Here are the top passenger friendly features: No hike in passenger fares Tickets can now be booked 120 days ahead of

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  Rail Budget 2015: Prabhu promises India modern rail network with no fare hike

  February 26, 2015 13:08 IST

  New Delhi: Without tinkering with passenger fares, Minister Suresh Prabhu presented his maiden budget for Indian Railways in the Lok Sabha Thursday, promising to balance passenger needs and long-term interests of the organisation and benchmark

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  Rail Budget 2015: Prabhu promises to raise Indian Railways to global standards

  February 26, 2015 13:06 IST

  New Delhi: Minister Suresh Prabhu began presenting his maiden budget for the Indian Railways in the Lok Sabha Thursday, promising to balance the needs of passengers and the long-term interests of the network so that

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  Rail Budget 2015: Fare hike unlikely, roadmap for raising funds, bio-toilets, use of solar energy and more

  February 26, 2015 7:00 IST

  New Delhi: With Railway finances under terrible strain, all eyes will be on whether Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu will hike the fares and freight rates in the Rail Budget on Thursday. Minister of State for Railway

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  Less than 100 trains likely to get green signal in Rail Budget

  February 22, 2015 9:47 IST

  New Delhi: With Railways reeling under a financial crunch, the number of new trains to be announced in the Rail Budget is unlikely to be more than 100, much less than what is the normal

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  Rail Budget 2015: No possibility of reduction in train fares, says Manoj Sinha

  February 19, 2015 14:37 IST

  New Delhi: Ahead of presentation of the Railway Budget in Parliament next week, government today ruled out the possibility of reducing train fares, saying they were "already low"."It (fare reduction) will not be done. Fares

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  Rail Budget 2015: Ministry gets 16,000 suggestions online

  February 09, 2015 19:47 IST

  New Delhi: Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu has invited suggestions from the public to make the forthcoming Railway Budget citizen-oriented, and in turn the Railway ministry has received over 16,000 suggestions — ranging from the interesting,