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Senior station manager assaulted, office ransacked
D. MADHA...
Saturday, December 29, 2012
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Railways ties up funds at zonal
levels for 360 pending projects
Disha Kanwar / New Delhi Dec 24,
2012, 01:22 IST
With the Ministry of Railways back with
the Congress after
16 years, a fresh wave of change is sweeping through the ministry.
For the first time, the railways has
prioritised its 360 pending projects worth about Rs 4 lakh...
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THE HINDU TODAY'S PAPER NEW DELHI, Dec 24, 2012
RAILFARE
PTI
RAILWAYS TO HIKE PASSENGER FARE BY 5 TO 10 PAISE PER KM
Faced
with mounting deficit of over Rs 20,000 crore in the passenger segment,
Railways is keen on raising passenger fares between 5—10 paise per km in the
coming months to generate about Rs 4,000 crore revenue.
Reviewing
the performance of...
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17 injured as train rams into goods train
Dated: Saturday, December
29, 2012
Jaipur: Seventeen persons were injured when a train rammed into a
stationary goods train at Marwar-Mundwa station in Rajasthan in wee hours on
Saturday.&nbs...
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Truck mishap: rail
traffic resumes
HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times
Bhopal, December 29, 2012As many as 17 passenger trains and 12 goods
trains got delayed when a truck broke on the railing of Chetak bridge and fell
near the railway track on Thursday night....
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HYDERABAD-KHOLAPUR EXPRESS COLLIDES WITH GOODS TRAIN,
NO CASUALTIES
[ Date : Dec 29th, 2012 ]
BELLARY: A host of passengers of the
Kolhapur-bound Hyderabad-Kolhapur express had a miraculous escape after the
train rammed into an empty goods train. There were no casualties. However, the
engine of the express train and four wagons of the goods train got deraile...
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TODAY'S PAPER
NEW DELHI, December 29, 2012
Train versus tortoise, is it?
K. BALCHAND
If a Chinese train covering roughly 2300 km in about 10 hours in one of the severest of cold conditions, makes headlines, the Indian Railways may well be in contention for the dubious distinction of running the slowest train...
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TODAY'S PAPER » NATIONAL » NEW DELHI
BANIHAL (J&K), December 29, 2012
A historic rail link to Kashmir Valley
The train passes through the longest railway tunnel in the country during trial r...
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Successful trial run on Banihal-Qazigund sectorTrain to Katra in April, Banihal by March
Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Dec 28: The Railways today said here that the train will chug between Banihal and Baramulla in March next year and in April on Udhampur-Katra section of the prestigious Udhampur-Baramulla rail link.
After the intervention by Deputy Commissioner Anantnag, Farooq Shah, the successful trial run of the track tramping machine...
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Four more Central Railway employees shifted in TVI Express scam
By Vijay Pinjarkar, TNN | Dec 29, 2012, 12.25 AM IST
NAGPUR: In a face-saving exercise, threemovement inspectors (MIs) and a lobby in-charge were
shifted on Thursday evening for their involvement in the TVI (Travel Ventures
International) Express scam which involved collecting Rs 15,500 by promising
air travel around the world and handsome commissio...
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Railway engineer,
wife convicted of corruption
Express news service : Mumbai, Sat Dec 29 2012, 04:20 hrs
A special CBI court convicted Friday senior Central Railway
divisional engineer Arvind Mittal of criminal misconduct under Prevention of
Corruption Ac...
Friday, December 21, 2012
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TODAY'S PAPER » NATIONAL » NEW DELHI
NEW DELHI, December 21, 2012
Mamata has misled people, says parliamentary panel
K. BALCHAND
A parliamentary committee has criticised Mamata Banerjee for “misleading the people” by announcing a scheme without any basis and support in the Railway budget for 2011-12.
In its report tabled in the Rajya Sabha, the Railway Convention Committee disapproved of the manner in which Ms. Banerjee, as Railway...
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TODAY'S PAPER » NATIONAL » ANDHRA PRADESH
VISAKHAPATNAM, December 21, 2012
AIRF meet ends
STAFF REPORTER
The three-day 88th annual conference of All India Railwaymen’s Federation (AIRF), which concluded here on Thursday, gave a call to all Railway employees to be prepared for direct action in case the government continues to implement its anti-labour policies under the guise of globalisatio...
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TODAY'S PAPER » NATIONAL » NEW DELHI
NEW DELHI, December 21, 2012
Kashmir rail project could run into complexities: CAG
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
Already way behind schedule, the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla-Rail Link (USBRL), aimed at connecting the Kashmir Valley with the rest of the country with an all-weather route, is likely to run into further complexities and higher cost overruns, says the Comptroller and Auditor General.
In...
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Thief on train steals 4 mobiles in 45 minutes
By Nitasha Natu,
TNN | Dec 21, 2012
MUMBAI: A thief, Aamir Mohammad Shaikh, stole four cellphones
belonging to Central Railway(CR)
commuters on Wednesday.
When Shaikh tried to pick his fourth victim's wallet, he was caught. According
to theGovernment
Railway Police (GRP),
Shaikh may have targeted other travellers to...
Thursday, December 20, 2012
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Unmanned level crossings fast becoming death traps
By V Kamalakara Rao, TNN | Dec 20, 2012, 02.02 AM IST
VISAKHAPATNAM: Fifty-year-old Motilal Murma from Bihar lost both his limbs after being run
over by a train at an unmanned level
crossing(ULC) in Gopalapatnam on Wednesday. The incident occurred
when he was trying to cross the railway track. In another incident, a
55-year-old Kapparada resident, P Appa Rao died after...
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
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Railways tops in
corruption complaints: CVC
New Delhi, Dec 19 (PTI) Over 8,800 complaints of alleged graft against railway
employees were received by the Central Vigilance Commission last year.
A total of 8,805 complaints of alleged corruption were received against
Railways employees, followed by 8,430 against banks employees and 5,026 against
Income tax officials, 4,783 against Government of National Capital Territory of
Delhi and...
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Railways
to provide all necessary facilities from limited resources: Pawan Kumar Bansal
SME News,
Wednesday, Dec 19, 2012
SIDDHARTNAGAR:
The Railways facing difficulties in view of passenger fares not being increased
but the ministry is putting its level best to provide all the necessary
facilities to the passengers from its limited resources, as announced by Union
Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal....
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
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Monday, December 17, 2012
Mumbai’s lifeline is a big killer Railway Mishap Toll Crosses 2,500 This Year
Mumbai: Five commuters died on Saturday following injuries sustained in railway mishaps, according to the government railway police (GRP). The number of accidental deaths on the railways had crossed 2,550 till September this year, with more cases being reported on the Central line than on the Western line.&nb...
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THE HINDU
KOCHI, December 18, 2012
Crumbling coaches, pests greet train passengers in Kerala
JOHN L. P...
Monday, December 17, 2012
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Rail fares to go up next year: Minister
Sunday, 16 December
2012
Visakhapatnam, December 16:
Train fares might go up next year as an increase has become necessary
to meet the financial situation of the Railways...
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INDIA TODAY ONLINE NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 3,
2012
Indian Railway to build a 15-km track linking Agartala with
Bangladesh
A railway
link between Tripura capital Agartala and Bangladesh's southeastern city of
Akhaurah would soon come into a reality, as the neighbouring nations are
expected to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) soon...
Friday, December 14, 2012
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Ministry of Railways 14-December,
2012
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Expansion of
Railway Network
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As on April 1,
1950, Railways had 53,596 route kilometers which increased to 64,600 route
kilometers as on March 31, 201...
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Railways plan seven bullet train corridors
14 December 2012, New Delhi,
Team MP
The minister of state for railways Kotla Surya
Prakash Reddy wants to take railways into high speed gear. He pitched for
bullet train corridors that may change the way the India travels.&nbs...
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Ministry of Railways 14-December,
2012
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Average Speed of
Trains:
Speed of trains is
dependent on various factors including the maximum permissible speed of
sections over which train is operated, type of signalling system, type of
rolling stock deployed, stoppages en-route, etc. The details of average speed
of trains including halts (kilometers per hour) for the year 2011-12 is given
belo...
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Railway modernisation, safety will
need $120 billion
Friday, December 14, 2012,
New Delhi: The modernisation and safety of Indian Railways
will require Rs 660,000 crore (USD 120 billion), Parliament was told on Friday.&nbs...
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569 'Model' Railway
Stations Developed
New
Delhi, Dec 14 (IANS): The railways have developed 569
"model" railway stations and work is on on another 25, parliament
was informed Frida...
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727 km of Rail
Lines Added in 2011-12
New
Delhi, Dec 14 (IANS): A total of 727 km of railway lines were
added across the country in 2011-12, with Andhra Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh
accounting for the bulk, parliament was told Frida...
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Railways cuts plan outlay by Rs 4,000 crore for 2012-13
By Mahendra
Kumar Singh, TNN | Dec 14, 2012, 03.20 AM IST
In its budget for 2012-13, Railways had proposed
its highest ever plan outlay of Rs 60,100 crore. It was planning to generate Rs
18,050 crore through internal resource...
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
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Kashmir rail's
cost overrun Rs 5.5K crore, to be ready by 2017 end
PTI Dec 6, 2012, 05.36PM IST
NEW DELHI: Government today said its ambitious Kashmir rail plan has the largest cost overrun of Rs
5,500 crore among those rail projects which have been delayed by more than a
decad...
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PM PUSHES FOR
HIKE IN RAILWAY FARES
FRIDAY, 07 DECEMBER 2012 18:53.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has set a deadline of December 31
for an inter-ministerial group to finalise its proposal for setting up a Rail
Tariff Authority that will suggest rationalisation of passenger fares which
have not seen a hike for the last nine year...
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Mamata-appointed railway panels dissolved
Tue, Dec 11 2012 New Delhi,
The various committees whose members were appointed by the
then railway ministerMamata Banerjee have been dissolved, Minister of State
for Railways Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said Tuesda...
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
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Railway
revenue earnings up by 19.23%
India
Blooms News Service
New Delhi, Dec
10 (IBNS) The total approximate earnings of Indian Railways on originating
basis during 1st April to 30th November 2012 were Rs.78868.17 crore compared to
Rs. 66150.48 crore during the same period last year, registering an increase of
19.23 per cent....
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Railways gear up for foggy challenge
Neha Shukla,
TNN Dec
8, 2012,
LUCKNOW: Railway has chalked out a detailed safety and
operational plan to gear up to challenge of fog through a multi-pronged
strategy. Railway had commenced planning of trains operations in September and
has cancelled 13 pairs of trains, partially cancelled 3 pairs of trains and
diverted 2 pairs of trains. Railway...
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PPP in Railways:
A number of policies were
announced during Eleventh Five Year Plan to encourage private investment in
terminals and wagons. These include: Private Freight Terminal policy (PFT),
Special Freight Train Operations (SFTO) policy, Automobile Freight Train
Operators (AFTO) policy, Auto-hub-ancillary policy, Operation of Container
Trains, R3i (Railways’ Infrastructure for Industry Initiative) and R2CI (Rail
connectivity to coal and...
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CGE to get bigger and
better quarters
The quarters of central government employees are set to
become bigger and better.
Ahead of the election season, the urban development ministry is planning to not
just increase
the houses' areas by an average of 25 per cent but also fit them out with modular
kitchens and electric chimneys. The last time the housing norms were revised
was in 1981....
Thursday, December 6, 2012
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TODAY'S PAPER »
NATIONAL MANGALORE, December 6, 2012
Katju wants media regulator with
punitive powers
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
‘Media
persons care two hoots for Press Council as it can only admonish’
Press Council of India chairman Markandey Katju on Wednesday
sought a statutory regulator with punitive powers, one that was “more
representative,” for the media.
Mr. Katju...
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