How Railways’ finances got derailed
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Railways to pay Rs. 1 lakh compensation to passenger for injury
PTI New Delhi, September 29, 2013
Holding it guilty of poor upkeep of train coaches, a consumer forum has directed Railways to pay Rs. 1 lakh as compensation to a Supreme Court advocate, who injured his fingers due to a loosely covered fan in a train in 201...
Saturday, September 28, 2013
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Railway officers allege disparity in promotion
TNN | Sep 28, 2013,
MADURAI: The members of the India Railway Promotee Officers' Federation
(IRPOF) alleged disparity in the promotion for the officers. On the
sidelines of the two-day executive council meet attended by the office
bearers of the federation from all the zones, the members urged the
railway department to follow the existing norms in officers' promotion....
Friday, September 27, 2013
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Indian Railways’ DLW produces world’s first ever 5500 HP locomotive as a pilot project
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No new railway zones, divisions: Kharge
New Delhi, Sept 26, 2013, DHNS:
Railway Minister Mallikarjun Kharge said on
Thursday that there are proposals before the Railway Ministry to create
new zones or divisions in the country....
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Railway bribery scam: HC grants bail to Singla, three others
Friday, September 27, 2013,
New Delhi: Delhi High Court on Friday granted bail to Vijay Singla,
nephew of former Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal, and three others
in the Rs 10 crore railway...
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Railway freight rate goes up by 15% from Oct 1
By PTI | 27 Sep, 2013,...
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
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GULBARGA,
September 25, 2013
Railways may hike AC, first-class fares in express, special trains
Special Correspondent...
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
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IRCTC App for Windows
Mobile Phones, Tablets and Personal
Computers
IRCTC
joined hands with Microsoft and introduced an IRCTC app for booking tickets online. The app can be
used on phones, tablets and
personal computers that run on Windows
operating system. The app will open just with the touch of a hand
and there is no need to type the site name in the address ba...
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High-speed train system is a huge success for China
By New York Times | 24 Sep, 2013,
Just five years after China’s high-speed rail system
opened, it is carrying nearly twice as many passengers each month as the
country’s domestic airline industry....
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Rail Europe launches mobile app for passengers
By Prachee Kulkarni, ET Bureau | 24 Sep, 2013,...
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At last, toilets in train engines to help drivers relieve stress
Raghvendra Rao : Chandigarh, Tue Sep 24 2013,...
Monday, September 23, 2013
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Alert loco pilot averts major train accident
By
Express News Service - HYDERABAD 23rd September 2013
Alertness of loco pilots averted a possible major train mishap when a
coach of Kanyakumari-Howrah Express derailed near Kavali in Nellore
district on Sunda...
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Fire in New Delhi-Patna Magadh Express
PTI
Patna, Sept 23:
A first class AC coach of New Delhi-Patna Magadh
Express caught fire near Buxar station in Bihar, about 75 km from here
today, but no casualty was reporte...
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Indian Railways mulls advanced diesel technologies
Written by
Raghav Tha...
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Sonia Gandhi lays foundation stone for MEMU coach factory in Bhilwara, Rajasthan
NetIndian News Network
Jaipur, September 22, 2013
Ruling Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi laid the foundation stone...
Saturday, September 21, 2013
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No.7(2)1E.Coord/2013 Ministry of Finance Department of Expenditure New Delhi, 18th Sept, 2013
OFFICE MEMORANDUM
Sub: Expenditure Management - Economy Measures and Rationalization of Expenditu...
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German unions curb precarious work
18.09.2013
As preparation for the global action to STOP Precarious Work moves
full steam ahead, German unions set a new benchmark for agency worker
wage...
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Rail wagon shortage hits car movement, says Ford ED
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Try coastal shipping: CII logistics institute chief
Chennai, Sept. 19: &nb...
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2 Chinese companies in race to bag locomotive factories in Bihar
By PTI | 20 Sep, 201...
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Railways plans LNG as future fuel for its locomotives
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MUMBAI: Central Railway
services may be affected on Friday as employee unions have threatened to resort to work to rule if their demand to increase the reporting time of motormen and guards for the first scheduled train departure to 30 minutes is not met by evening. On Wednesday evening, more than 150 CR services were delayed and over 70 cancelled after motormen and guards went on a flash strike for 25 minutes....
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Govt approves 10 per cent DA hike, to benefit 50 lakh central employees
20 Sep, 2013, PTI
The increase in DA to 90 per cent would
result in additional annual expenditure of Rs 10,879 cr...
Friday, September 20, 2013
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Senior railway officers seek govt help to change appointment system
Avishek G Dastidar | New Delhi |
The race for vacant top posts in the Railway Ministry
has turned ugly, forcing the senior officers’ association to write to
the Prime Minister’s Office, the Cabinet and the Railway Minister. The
letter, sent Thursday by the Federation of Railway Officers’ Association
(FROA), which represents all Group A officers, states that the Central
Vigilance...
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Railway ruckus: PMO rejects nominations for the vacant eight GM rank posts
Maneesh Pandey
|
Mail Today |
New Delhi, September 20, 2013&nbs...
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Friday , September 20, 2013
Railway finances off
track, why is railway going slow on defaulters?
IBNLi...
Next Stop, Bangalore: Japan May Help South India Build High-Speed Rail System
By Palash Ghosh on September 20 2013
The Japanese government has expressed its interest in helping
Indian railway officials to finance and build a high-speed “bullet
train” from Bangalore to Mysore in the southern province of Karnatak...
Saturday, September 14, 2013
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Saroj
Kumar Dhar (14.02.1936.-15.09.2008)
(Secretary General of All India Loco Running Staff Association and Deputy
Secretary General of All India
Railway Employees Confederatio...
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'Major drop in signal failure cases'
TNN | Sep 14, 2013,
ALLAHABAD: Presiding over a meeting of officials of signal and telecommunication department, general manager, NCR, Alok Johri
on Friday said signaling is among the most important departments of
rail traffic. This is because in the present age, the new technology
introduced for managing rail traffic in the country has proved very
beneficial. The numbers of incidences of signal failure...
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» NATIONAL
» TAMIL NADU CHENNAI,
September 14, 2013
Railway Quarters residents protest poor water supply
Staff Repor...
Friday, September 13, 2013
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Rail route from NE to Bangladesh and Myanmar
AGARTALA, SEP 12 (AGENCIES)
:
Published on 12 Sep. 2...
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Western Railway looks for ways to cool Churchgate glass building
Friday, Sep 13, 2013, 6:42 IST | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA
Binoo Nair
Cost...
Thursday, September 12, 2013
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Shortage of loco pilots and coaches hits special trains
V Ayyappan TNN
Chennai:With
the festival season round the corner, Southern Railway is hunting for
coaches and loco pilots to run special trains. Due to a shortage of loco
pilots, passenger train drivers and occasionally goods train drivers
are assigned to special trains....
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
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Railway Revenue Earnings up by 10.29 Per Cent During April - August 2013
The
total approximate earnings of Indian Railways on originating basis
during 1st April to 31st August 2013 were Rs. 54462.79 crore compared to
Rs. 49382.94 crore during the same period last year, registering an
increase of 10.29 per cent....
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Railgate: Loss of Rs17,000 crore just tip of the iceberg?
AK Ramdas | 10/09/2013...
Monday, September 9, 2013
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End of the line for annoying announcements on trains as scientists discover that quieter messages can be just easy to underst...
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Judging productivity in railways
By
S N Mathur
Published: 09th September 2013
Productivity, as commonly understood, measures how efficiently
production inputs, such as labour and capital, are being used in an
economy to produce a given level of output. For an industry it is a key
source of growth and competitiveness, and is basic information for
comparison, both in domestic and international markets. It is also used
for analysing...
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about the Report of High Power Committee on HOER:
Hours
of Employment Regulations was stipulated by British colonialists to suit the
conditions in the year 1931. Even after a lapse of 82 years Indian Railways
does not wants to change the entire structure. They are still continued to REPAINT
the old dilapidated structure instead of making a new HOER. It is like making
up for and aged Auntie with Chudidar and lipstic...
Thursday, September 5, 2013
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High Power Committee on HOER full report available at AILRSA Web site
www.ailrsa.c...
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Railways puts electric loco project on fast track
Mahendra Singh, TNN
| Sep 5, 2013
NEW DELHI:
After a long delay, the railways has
finally fast-tracked the process for setting up an electric
locomotive plant at Madhepura in
Bihar....
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Lok Sabha passes Pension Bill: 10 key facts
NDTV | Updated On: September 04, 2...
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Indian Railways Take Global Lead in Developing Common Rail Electronic Direct Fuel Injection
In
order to alleviate the effect of rising fuel prices and increasing
pollution from transport sector, Research Development Standard
Organisation (RDSO), the research wing of Indian Railways is in the
process of developing a highly fuel efficient, Common Rail Electronic
Direct Fuel Injection (CReDI) system for its fleet of diesel
locomoti...
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Railways to Install Improved Automatic fire and Smoke Detection System in Coaches
Indian
Railways have been continuously endeavouring to improve safety of
passengers. As a significant step in this direction, Indian Railways has
developed for installing fire & smoke detection system on coaches....
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Use of CNG/LNG in Train Operation
One
DEMU Power Car (DPC) of Shakurbasti Diesel Shed has been converted to
CNG-diesel dual-fuel mode and is running successfully for the last few
years. Three contracts have been awarded for CNG conversion of 50
numbers of DPCs....
Wednesday, September 4, 2013
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PFRDA ( NPS ) BILL PASSED BY LOK SABHA
Today the Loksabha passed the pension reforms bill after the 9
years of its executive order . The LEFT parties made all the effort to
fail the bill in the both houses of the parliament . But the so called
corporate's supported other parties given their green signal towards
the employees pension money to share market . The parliamentary
standing committee on finance also had...
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Press Trust of India |
New Delhi
September 4, 2013
Last Updated at 19:05 IST
HC reserves order on bail plea of accused in rail bribery c...
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» ANDHRA PRADESH VIJAYAWADA,
September 4, 2013
DRM dons the role of an instructor
Rajulapudi Srinivas
...
Sunday, September 1, 2013
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Bringing rowdies on track
Madhavi Rajadhyaksha, TNN | Sep 1, 2013,
All
that is necessary for the triumph of evil, is that good men do nothing"
. Irish political thinker Edmund Burke's words might ring true for many
a common man but not 29-year-old Mumbai citizen Dipesh Tank. An
advertising professional, Tank has been trying to make commuting on
trains safer for wom...
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