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Chairman Railway Board A K Mital said that Railways is most economical mode of transportation even then railway traffic is going down as compared to the other modes of transport. He pointed the reason behind that Railways has not spent enough for developing basic infrastructure for the freight sector.&nb...
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Documents detailing plans for the 142km rail link connecting Jakarta and Bandung have yet to be submitted: Indonesian transport minis...
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CHENNAI: More than 2,500 members of the Dakshin Railway Employee Union staged a protest at the Moore Market Complex in Chennai on Thursday morning placing a charter of demands including those related to their wag...
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The ambitious Rs 81,459-crore project envisages freight rail lines along the western corridor between Delhi and Mumbai and the eastern corridor between Ludhiana and Howrah, running through De...
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Gangmen, now redesignated as track maintainers, are most vulnerable to getting run over by trains while performing their duty round-the-clock. About 400 gangmen are killed every year in train accidents while on du...
Saturday, January 30, 2016
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AGRA: Soon, no more hours-long train delays in the name of fog. Railways is conducting test trial of thermal imaging technology on express train so that trains operate normally even in dense fo...
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New Delhi: Central trade unions, including BJP-backed Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS), have decided to go on a strike on March 10, to protest against central as well as some state government's "anti-worker" policies and changes in laws through labour refor...
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The transformation of Indian Railways will be complete only if the next transformation, if and when required, does not involve much of a role by the minis...
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Press Trust of India | New Delhi January 29, 2016
CBI has registered a corruption case against a Deputy Chief Engineer of the railways for allegedly amassing assets of Rs 64.22 lakhs disproportionate to his known sources of income.&nb...
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SOMESH JHA
We will not allow ‘hire and fire’ amendments as planned by the govt.: labour lea...
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While all the five central trade unions — INTUC, BMS, AITUC, CITU and HMS — have agreed on a four-day ‘work to rule agitation’ in March demanding withdrawal of disinvestment in the state-owned Coal India, four of them have come to a consensus on one-day strike across the country on March 29...
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HARSHINI VAKKALANKA
A photography exhibition by amateurs captures the life and the story of people on railway platfo...
Saturday, January 23, 2016
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RMT general secretary Mick Cash criticises Arriva’s decision to give contract to overseas company instead of to British train manufacturer Bombard...
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Only a detailed study on the failure of the Railways' carrot-and-stick policy to speed up project execution in 2015-16 may yield some interesting insights. This in turn may help to restructure the organisation
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Friday, January 22, 2016
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Indian Railways' ambitious Rs 2500 cr trainset project, a part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'Make in India' programme has suffered a setback as the shortlisted bidders have sought more time and changes in the bidding documents before submitting the financial bids.
By: PTI | New Delhi | January 21, 2016&nb...
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A meeting of leading trade unions here has resolved to organise an agitation on February 2 in protest against the delay in arriving at a new wage pact for the textile workers he...
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Over this period (by 2025), India is expected to see a 105% growth in HNWI population to 483,800 from 236,000, the report added.
AGENCIES | Tue, 19 Jan 2016 , New Delhi , ...
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Chennai: A senior officer of Southern Railway, known or his no-nonsense and straightforward approach, has been transferred, allegedly due to strong-arm tactics adopted by the Southern Railway Mazdoor Union (SRMU). SRMU claims to be the sole recognised employee union of the zonal railway ...
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New Delhi: Safety measures at unmanned level crossings and arrangements for disabled at rail premises will be some of the additional issues that will be examined by a parliamentary panel on Railwa...
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Freight traffic performance of Indian Railways (IR) remained weak for the second consecutive month in December 2015. It carried 94.6 million tonnes of revenue-earning freight as compared to 95.5 million tonnes in December 2014, translating into a year-on-year (y-o-y) fall of 0.9 per cent. This resulted in a hit on the Railways' freight earnings in December, which stood at Rs 9,442 crore, down 3.4 per cent y-o-y...
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There are various reports in the media about the impact of the 7th CPC recommendations on the common man and the government resources at large, the reports suggest that the Government may postpone the 7th CPC implementation also till its finances are set right.
These reports are totally wro...
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Threatening to go on "indefinite strike", All-India Railwaymen's Federation (AIRF) today raised various demands including review of new pension scheme and filling up of large number of vacant posts in the railwa...
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The protest will be organised under the banner of All India Railway Engineers Federation (AIREF).By: PTI...
Monday, January 18, 2016
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Railways are conservative in dealing with contract management with private players and need a liberal policy to attract significant private investment in rail sector, Railway Board Chairman A K Mittal today said.
He stressed that ease of doing business should be there to increase volumes.
"Railways should address the concern of private players for attracting private investment. If there is a risk then the risk factor has to be addressed,"...
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This was well above the 800 yuan (or Rs 8.23 lakh crore) target for the year as the country continues to ramp up infrastructure...
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The recommendations of the seventh central pay commission (CPC) would reduce, rather than increase, the ‘take-home’ salary of almost 90% of Indian Railways’ workforce, the largest railway trade union has alleged. It has also threatened to go on an indefinite strike in the first week of March in response to the panel’s recommendations. ...
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MRPL officials said the company's board had already given approval for the project and around 30 acres of MRPL land would be utilised for the purpo...
Sunday, January 17, 2016
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Constitution of an Empowered Committee of Secretaries to process the recommendations of the 7th Central Pay Commiss...
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BENGALURU: Members of the All Indian Loco Running Staff Association have come down heavily on the report prepared on the accident of the Bangalore-Ernakulam Inter-city Expre...
Saturday, January 16, 2016
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Labour and SNP both desperate to prevent Conservative crackdown on workers’ rights from taking effect in Scotlan...
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Many of railway engineer Nigel Gresley’s trains were named after birds, so putting a mallard at his feet in his new statue seemed like a neat little visual pun. But not everyone agreed – and thus the duckers and the anti-duckers went to wa...
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BENGALURU: After more than one 100 years of keeping its cash safe in mammoth, iron chests, the South Western Railway (SWR) has finally decided to modernise...
Friday, January 15, 2016
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Immigrants, according to the report, include naturalised citizens, permanent residents and temporary visa holders.
Indian-origin scientists and engineers in the U.S. grew 85% between 2003 and 2013, says a report by the National Science Foundation, a key funder of research in the United States as well as a monitor of demographic change among scientists and technologis...
Thursday, January 14, 2016
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BENGALURU: A Union government-backed survey has revealed a disturbing trend: in the six years since the Right to Education Act, around 60 lakh children between ages six and 13 years remain unschooled in the count...
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BENGALURU: A combination of human errors by three parties had resulted in the Bengaluru-Ernakulam Intercity Express derailment near Anekal that resulted in the death of nine persons and left 42 injured, a statutory inquiry has established. A top engineer could face the axe while others face lesser punishment.
Commissioner of Rail Safety (CRS) Satish Kumar Mittal, in...
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The government would spend Rs.8.5 lakh crore to overhaul the Indian Railways, Minister of State forRailways Manoj Sinha said here on Wednesd...
Wednesday, January 13, 2016
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NEW DELHI: Finance Ministry has rejected the request of Railways for Rs. 32,000 crore as revenue grant, sought to tide over the impending impact of the 7th Pay Commission recommendations on the public transporter...
Monday, January 11, 2016
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The 42nd Amendment made formal the Constitution’s basic commitment to the idea of a secular state—quite contrary to the BJP position that the amendment incorporated the idea in the Preamble. By A.G. NOOR...
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Trade unions react strongly to the fresh set of amendments the government has introduced in the Factories Act without discussions with them. By T.K. RAJALAKS...
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Seven hundred and sixty kilometres, 59 stations, 92 tunnels, 2,328 bridges, one man holding it all togeth...
Sunday, January 10, 2016
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AGRA: In two separate incidents, railway employees became a cause of embarrassment for the Indian Railways by forcing trains to make unscheduled hal...
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A train runs on a particular route only to ensure that a girl can go to school. Isn't that overwhelming?New Delhi, January 10, 2016 |&nb...
Friday, January 8, 2016
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No person can work all the time. But, We, Loco Pilots (Train Engine Drivers) of Railways are always at the disposal of his employer.&nb...
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Railways comes out with concept paper on Rail Development Authority (RDA) according to which the proposed body will be an independent and quasi-judicial one with four key functio...
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Head on generation system introduced on New Delhi-Mumbai Rajdhani would save Rs.5.5 crore in power costs annua...
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HIGHLIGHTS• The Railway Board has changed rules to prevent misuse of senior citizen quota.• This unscrupulous tactic is used by agents to book more comfortable lower berths.• In case this transgression is not detected by the TTE, it results in loss of revenue for railwa...
Thursday, January 7, 2016
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The iconic watchmaker, who took pride as the country’s timekeeper, will finally stop ticking. While many employees lamented the decline of HMT watches — once the unchallenged pioneer in the watch market of the country — they also welcomed the move accepting it as a reali...
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Minimum Wage linked to Consumer Price Index must be guaranteed to all workers, taking into consideration the recommendations of the 15th Indian Labour Conference and further enriched by the Apex Court by an add on of 25%....
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Faster than fairies, faster than witches,Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches...
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A regulator to fix tariffs is an idea long overdue.
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Mumbai: The iconic Parsik Tunnel, which connects Thane to Kalyan via the fast corridor, will complete 100 years this year...
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New Delhi: The Railways has sought a financial grant of about Rs 32,000 crore from Ministry of Finance to tide over the impending impact of 7th Pay Commission recommendations on the public transport...
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The Arvind Panagariya-led Committee on Innovative Collaborations, which had approved the project, has incorporated this policy move which has subsequently been approved by the Cabinet.Written by Avishek G Dasti...
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Bengaluru: Come February, it will be a year since the Bengaluru-Ernakulam intercity train derailed near Bidaragere in Anekal, 70km from here, killing nine passengers and injuring more than 20. However, a statutory inquiry report identifying the guilty is gathering dust without any follow-up action...
Wednesday, January 6, 2016
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New Delhi: Indian Railways will soon invite bids from private players for the modernisation of 400 railway stations across the country, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Tuesd...
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The Southern Railway is giving a smart makeover to the railway in Chennai, India, with a variety of new kiosks and plasma screen display boards. The company has already deployed a ticket vending kiosk, with plans to install other kiosks later, according to a report by India Times...
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NEW DELHI: More than half a dozen central trade unions have slammed the government for what they call its policy of giving the industry unhindered powers to "hire and fire" workers on the pretext of improving the ease of doing business through the socalled labour refor...
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Seoul: North Korea announced on Wednesday that it had successfully carried out its first hydrogen bomb test, a development that, if confirmed, would marking a stunning step forward in its nuclear developme...
Tuesday, January 5, 2016
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DMRC-like SPV to be floated in a month for the Rs 98,000 crore Mumbai-Ahmedabad corridor
Sudheer Pal Singh | New Delhi January 5, 2...
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Mysuru, Jan 05, 2016, DHNS
The South Western Railway (SWR) has displayed various types of high horse power locomotives and other related systems at its stall in the Pride of India expo, held as a part of the 103rd Indian Science Congress organised by the University of Mysore at Manasagangotri, in Mysuru.&nb...
Saturday, January 2, 2016
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It was in August 2015 that this township on the border of Arunachal and Assam found a place on India’s railway map, when it was connected to the broad gauge netwo...
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Pune: Some electrical fittings like bulbs and fans at Pune railway station will run on solar power. The Central Railway, Pune division has signed an MoU with Persistent Foundation for generation of solar power at the station...
Friday, January 1, 2016
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Railways wants its land to grow, people who live by the tracks say they have nowhere else to go. Abhishek Angad tracks the talk on both sides.Written by Abhishek Angad New Delhi Published:Dec 21, 20...
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Indian Railways ended 2015 on an optimistic note, with India and Japan signing an agreement to help launch a bullet train between Mumbai and Ahmedabad....
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