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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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