Rail Budget
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Rail Budget 2015: Ministry gets 16,000 suggestions online
Feb 09, 2015, 07:47 PM ISTNew 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,
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Rail Budget 2015-16: Railways to build 200-kmph train coaches indigenously
Feb 08, 2015, 12:19 PM ISTNew Delhi: The Railways will build coaches to run at a 200-km per hour speed at its Chennai facility in keeping with the Modi government's ‘Make in India' initiative. Introduction of AC rakes in the
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Rail Budget may focus on CCTVs and female constables for security
India | Feb 04, 2015, 09:26 PM ISTNew Delhi: The security of female passengers in trains might become the top priority of the Rail Budget this year. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been focusing on women empowerment since he came to power
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Rail Budget: Introduction of vacuum toilets likely
Feb 01, 2015, 10:25 AM ISTNew Delhi: Water conservation initiatives such as introduction of environment-friendly vacuum toilets and changes in the design of existing lavatories in trains are some of the proposals likely to be announced in the forthcoming Rail
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Suresh Prabhu to launch three trains for Bihar, Bengal tomorrow
India | Jan 05, 2015, 07:17 PM ISTNew Delhi: Continuing with the launching spree, Union Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu will tomorrow flag off three trains - two for West Bengal and one for Bihar - from Anand Vihar station here.Train services for
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Railways slap Rs one lakh fine on IRCTC for cockroach in food
India | Aug 03, 2014, 07:37 PM ISTNew Delhi: The IRCTC has been fined Rs one lakh after a cockroach was found in food served in Kolkata Rajdhani, as Railways crack the whip slapping heavy fines totalling Rs 11.50 lakh on nine
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Rail budget has nothing new: Cong
Jul 22, 2014, 04:46 PM ISTNew Delhi: Contending that the rail budget offers nothing new, Opposition Congress today said it is just a copy of UPA's budget and looks like fresh only because of “packaging” in which “we are zero,
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Bihar to keep up eco growth despite centre's neglect: Nitish
India | Jul 15, 2014, 08:46 PM ISTPatna: Accusing NDA government of neglecting Bihar in both general budget and Rail budget, senior JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar today said the state's resolve to develop has not been dampened by the Centre's ‘indifference'.“Our resolve
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CPI(M) holds protest against NDA govt's policies
National | Jul 12, 2014, 12:18 PM ISTJammu: Leaders of CPI(M) and its trade union wing CITU today held protest here and alleged that the NDA government at the Centre was “fast moving” towards privatisation of the country's economy by seeking PPP
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Mamata defends TMC protest in Parliament
National | Jul 09, 2014, 07:55 PM ISTBurdwan (WB): Defending the agitation by Trinamool Congress MPs in Parliament over the Railway budget, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today said that they were only exercising their democratic rights to protest against ‘deprivation'
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Narendra Modi's bullet train concept impressive, says Nitish Kumar
India | Jul 09, 2014, 05:05 PM ISTPatna: Former Railway minister and JD-U leader Nitish Kumar on Wednesday said that bullet trains, proposed in this year's Railway budget, were not feasible in the country, though the concept sounded very impressive.Kumar said that
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Train service to boost Meghalaya economy, CM
India | Jul 09, 2014, 04:03 PM ISTShillong: A day after Railway Minister Sadananda Gowda announced the first passenger train in Meghalaya, Chief Minister Mukul Sangma said the introduction of rail-head in Meghalaya would boost the economy of the landlocked state.“The introduction
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Question Hour disrupted in Parliament
National | Jul 09, 2014, 05:57 PM ISTNew Delhi: Angry protests by Trinamool Congress over the Rail budget disrupted the proceedings in Lok Sabha for the second day and spread to Rajya Sabha today, with Parliament failing to transact business in the
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Rail Budget: Railways launches Go-India smart card
Jul 09, 2014, 07:26 AM ISTNew Delhi: As smart cards are increasingly becoming popular among the people, the Railways has now launched Go-India Smart Card.Introduced as a pilot project, this value proposition would cover 11 stations of the New Delhi-Mumbai
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Chavan slams rail budget, says Centre apathetic to Maharashtra
India | Jul 08, 2014, 11:57 PM ISTMumbai: Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan today said that rail budget has completely let down Maharashtra and that he was feeling “terribly disappointed” by the “apathy” of Centre towards the state.“The government has done nothing on
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Centre planning to privatise railways;nothing for Mumbai: NCP
National | Jul 08, 2014, 11:51 PM ISTMumbai: NCP has accused the BJP-led NDA government of planning to privatise railways and ignoring Mumbai in its maiden rail budget presented today.“The (Narendra) Modi government is planning to privatise Railways. There was repeated mention
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Raje hails Rail Budget, Congress slams it for ignoring Rajasthan
India | Jul 08, 2014, 09:29 PM ISTJaipur: Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje today welcomed the Rail Budget, saying it reflects the vision of the Union Government to make the railways world class while Opposition Congress slammed it for ignoring the desert
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AAP says rail budget lacks long term vision
India | Jul 08, 2014, 08:28 PM ISTNew Delhi: The AAP today termed the rail budget as a missed opportunity and said the Narendra Modi government could have used its maiden rail budget to spell out its long term vision for the
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Jayalalithaa commends centre on rail budget
India | Jul 08, 2014, 06:11 PM ISTChennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Tuesday commended Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Railway Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda for bringing before the nation the true status of the Indian railways.Welcoming the proposal to introduce
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Ready-to-eat meals of reputed brands in trains
India | Jul 08, 2014, 05:11 PM ISTNew Delhi: The Railway Budget today proposed to introduce ready-to-eat meals of reputed brands on-board trains to improve food quality and cancel vendors' contract if services were not up to the mark. Presenting the Railway