Railway
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Vijayawada railway division earns Rs 3,714 cr till Jan; Finacial year 2015
Feb 11, 2015, 11:52 AM ISTVijayawada: Vijayawada Railway division has earned Rs 3,714 crore in 2014-15 financial year from April to January, registering a 35 per cent growth against Rs 2,750 crore in the same period last year, a senior
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Make in India: Bombarider eyes project worth $7-8 billion
Feb 10, 2015, 07:59 AM ISTNew Delhi: Modi government has opened up India railway infrastructure projects to foreign investments as part of Make in India push. The Canadian transportation giant Bombardier is eyeing on some of the biggest projects under
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Maoists threatens to blow up railway tracks in Bihar, seek Rs 1 crore and firearms as levy
India | Jan 21, 2015, 04:24 PM ISTNew Delhi: Suspected Maoists have sought Rs one crore, firearms and ammunition as levy from the Railways and have threatened to blow up railway tracks between Motihari and Paniahwa railway stations in Bihar if their
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Railways not to be privatised, but investments needed for growth: Suresh Prabhu
National | Jan 19, 2015, 05:43 PM ISTHyderabad: Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu today mooted the idea of foreign pension funds being invested in initiatives to raise financial resources for the Railways. “Financial investment is also necessary.That's why we talked about not our
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Coal India transporting extra coal to power plants
Jan 05, 2015, 03:11 PM ISTNew Delhi: State-owned Coal India is transporting extra coal to the power plants to help them tide over the likely disruption of supplies following the proposed five-day strike by the unions beginning tomorrow."Coal India (CIL)
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Railways want to protect dominance in cargo sector: Suresh Prabhu
National | Dec 27, 2014, 09:20 PM ISTNew Delhi: Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu today said the railways would soon launch a logistics facility for integrated cargo movement to protect its dominant share in the cargo-movement services.Prabhu, who inaugurated a parcel management system
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Delhi court convicts 4 persons in LN Mishra murder case
India | Dec 08, 2014, 04:42 PM ISTNew Delhi: Delhi court today convicted 4 persons in 40-year-old case relating to murder of then Railway Minister L N Mishra. All four persons have been convicted for murder under Sec 302 of the IPC.District
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PM Modi to address senior police and intelligence officials today
National | Nov 30, 2014, 09:06 AM ISTGuwahati: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will today address the senior police and intelligence officials of the country in Guwahati.Before his address, he will be presented with a briefing in which the officials will introduce a
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Railway officers set to adopt stations for cleaning
India | Nov 23, 2014, 10:37 AM ISTNew Delhi: Looking to give a new impetus to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Swachh Bharat mission, Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu has suggested that officers working with the public transporter could adopt one railway station each
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Sri Lanka restores railway to Tamil heartland after 24 years
World | Oct 13, 2014, 06:25 PM ISTJaffna: A railway in Sri Lanka that runs through mine-fields and snake-infested jungle is to reopen on Monday, nearly a quarter of a century after a bloody ethnic conflict shut it down.Trains to the northern
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Putin, Poroshenko agree on aid delivery to Ukraine by railway
World | Aug 30, 2014, 08:23 AM ISTMoscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday he has agreed with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on the proposal of delivering humanitarian assistance to southeastern Ukraine by train."We agreed that we will implement Poroshenko's plan in
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Railway freight rates to go up from Oct 1
Sep 29, 2013, 11:57 PM ISTNew Delhi: Inflation is expected to soar further with freight tariff on all commodities, including foodgrains, cement, chemical manure, iron ore and coal, set to rise by 15 per cent from October 1.Railways have decided
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Passengers block railway tracks in Kolkata
India | Sep 06, 2013, 12:32 PM ISTCanning: Angry passengers today blocked the railway tracks at Sonarpur station of Eastern Railway demanding more local trains to Sealdah station in Kolkata.The police said hundreds of passengers sat on the rails after local trains
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Freight tariff to go up from Oct 1, passenger fares untouched
India | Aug 27, 2013, 06:36 PM ISTNew Delhi: Railway freight traiff will go up from October 1 due to the increase in fuel cost but passenger fares will remain untouched, according to Minister of State for Railways Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury.However, he
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CBI gives clean chit to Bansal in railway bribery scandal
India | Jul 05, 2013, 08:49 PM ISTNew Delhi, July 5: CBI does not have any tapped conversation which shows that former Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal was involved in or had any knowledge of the Rs 10 crore cash-for-post bribery scandal,
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Voila! Bansal missing from CBI chargesheet in Railway bribery scam
India | Jul 02, 2013, 10:49 PM ISTNew Delhi, July 3: CBI today filed charge sheet in the alleged Rs 10 crore cash-for-post Railway bribery scandal before special court here naming former Railway Minister P K Bansal's nephew Vijay Singla and suspended
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First passenger train on Koderma-Nawadih-Giridih railway line
India | Jun 25, 2013, 08:37 PM ISTJharkhand, June 25: The first passenger train on the the newly constructed Koderma-Nawadih -Giridih railway line was today flagged off by JVM(P) chief Babulal Marandi.With the flagging off, Koderma Station also received the status of
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Railway bribery case: Pawan Bansal summoned for questioning
India | Jun 04, 2013, 11:40 AM ISTNew Delhi, June 4: The CBI has summoned former Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal for questioning today in connection with the railway bribery case. Agency sources said that Bansal has been called in the afternoon
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Railway announces Rs 2 lakh ex-gratia to next of kin of dead
India | Apr 10, 2013, 09:24 PM ISTChennai, Apr 10 ; Railway Ministry today announced a solatium of Rs two lakh to the next of kin of the dead and Rs 50,000 to those critically injured in the derailing of Muzaffarpur-Yesvantpur Express
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Consumer forum orders IRCTC to pay Rs 5,000 to railway passenger
India | Nov 20, 2012, 03:44 PM ISTNew Delhi, Nov 20: The Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) has been asked by a consumer forum here to compensate a woman and her son for harassment they underwent because of relegation of