Officials said the applicants appearing for the exam were often found to be Commerce and Science graduates and post-graduates.
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The category include posts related to inspection of tracks, signalling, engineering, telecommunication etc., for ensuring safety of the rail network
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Over one lakh posts related to the railways' safety mechanism were vacant as of April 2017, the government informed Parliament today.
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The Board also decided to install the ETCS Level-II system on the entire 9,054 km-long Golden Quadrilateral route connecting the four metros to make it a fully accident-free corridor.
All India | Indo-Asian News Service | Updated: December 17, 2017
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Scottish Trade union Congress-STUC-organised demonstration ahead of Scottish Budget calls for an increase in public sector pay and an end to cut...
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The officer was transferred with immediate effect to head the less significant position of managing Freight Operations Information System software.
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S. Anil Radhakrishnan THE HINDU THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:, DECEMBER 09, 2017 ...
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The present bio-toilets have been eliciting quite a lot of complaints regarding their upkeep and poor services and would often end up with a revolting stench and be overflowing with human waste because of the lack of timely maintenance.
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Indian Railways had previously launched an upgraded Shatabdi Express Train between New Delhi and Kathgodam under Project Swarna.
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Currently, Railways gives 14-16 hours of sleep to its drivers, called “headquarters rest”. Maintaining “running rooms” where loco pilots can sleep is a major priority area in railway administrati...
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Death trap: 114 rail accidents in Northern Railway network killed 226 since 2010, reveals RTI queryIndiaIANSNov, 29 2017Lucknow: A total of 114 rail accidents in the Northern Railway network since April 2010 led to 226 deaths and injuries to 365 persons, an RTI reply has reveal...
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BY SUBIR ROY ON 29/11/2017
From improving operational metrics to transitioning towards electric, Goyal is moving from one policy quagmire to another, trying to shore up as many as he can.
Passengers travel in an overcrowded train at Ghaziabad railway station on the outskirts of New Delhi. Credit: Reuters/Adnan Abidi
Last week, Indian Railways reported four...
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Chris Grayling said routes dumped in the Beeching Review 50 years ago could be brought back to ease pressure on commuter routes – and 'unlock' jobs and growth
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The railway ministry can now move a resolution in both Houses of Parliament adopting the Railway Convention Committee's recommendations for a waiver on dividend for 2016-17
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The hooter will be louder as the level crossing nears, and finally, it will be silent after the train passes by.
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Each year the number of deaths that occur at level-crossings of the railways across India seem to ri...
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Central office bearers’ and Zonal secretaries’ meeting of AILRSA was held at Chand Kalyana Mandapam, Vijayawada on 1st and 2nd November 2017. The meeting was presided over by a presidium consisting of com. L.Mony, com. T.Hanumaiah and com. M.P.Deo. attended by 44 members and all most have spoken express their view and suggested on agenda. ...
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Central office bearers’ and Zonal secretaries’ meeting of AILRSA was held at Chand Kalyana Mandapam, Vijayawada on 1st and 2nd November 2017. The meeting was presided over by a presidium consisting of com. L.Mony, com. T.Hanumaiah and com. M.P.Deo. attended by 44 members and all most have spoken express their view and suggested on agenda.&nb...
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How the caution orders protect the rail track and ensure the safe passing of trains over caution spot ---
While locomotive / train runs on track it puts a force on rails which reaches to ground through fully fit resilient pads , sleepers and ballast . In case anyone or more not fully fit to transfer the load to ground then by three ways train can pass safely over the unfit / less fit portion of track ---...
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STAFF REPORTER THE HINDU VIJAYAWADA , OCTOBER 28, 2017
Technical snag in diode panel cited as reason
The locomotive of the Machilipatnam-Secunderabad Express train caught fire late on Friday night. The alert loco pilots and the guard extinguished it in time and prevented a mish...
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Chairman of railway board to conduct surprise inspection to check on hawkers in Mumbai
MUMBAI Updated: Oct 27, 2017 Aroosa Ahmed Hindustan Ti...
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The officials are scheduled to appear before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Railways headed by Trinamool MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay on November...
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Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh objects to 25 points of wage code, including slapping penalty of eight-day wages if a worker strikes for a day.
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THINK CHANGE INDIA 23 OCTOBER 2017
Long-distance trains in India, irrespective of destination, have one thing in common — they are almost always late. In an effort to solve this chronic problem, Indian Railways has decided to increase the speed of nearly 500 trai...
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Railway workers had warned the government about network safety five months ago, reports The Economic Times.
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Structural and process-related issues do plague Railways. But we’re aware of the nation’s growing aspirations, hence keep reforming and overhauling.
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"We have got tremendous focus on HR and we will be taking good care of our human resources", he has said. Lohani also reiterated that railways will do away with all "frills" so that there will be less "protocol" and "ceremonial thing...
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Six wheels of Bandra-Jaisalmer Humsafar Express got derailed, but no passenger injuries have been reported.JAIPUR Updated: Oct 14, 2017
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Saudi Railways Organisation chief hails test a success as train travels from Jeddah to Mak...
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Rail freight .com Published on 17-10-2017
Only fifteen per cent of UK’s rail industry workforce is female. Furthermore, of all train drivers in the UK only six per cent is a woman. In Scotland, female train drivers represent only four per cent. This comes down to one single female driver....
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This will be the first ever diesel-electric locomotive running on Indian tracks which complies with the international UIC 1 standard on emissions, the company sa...
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PTI | Oct 10, 2017,
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The Railway Women's Welfare Organisation (RWWO) president has issued an advisory to RWWO members to avoid splurg...
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Indian Railways to build fuel-cell battery locomotive Written by David Brigins...
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PTI October 8, 2017 |
Chandigarh, Oct 8 (PTI) A passenger train today collided with a concrete mixer truck at an unmanned level crossing in Punjabs Fazilka, killing the locomotive driver, officials sa...
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R. Vimal Kumar THE HINDU TIRUPUR , OCTOBER 09, 2017
‘Migrant labourers mostly unaware of their rights about bonus entitleme...
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Railway board has asked all senior officials to relieve the railway staff who have been engaged as domestic help in their homes
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DECCAN CHRONICLE. PublishedOct 4, 2017,
The incident occurred near Wonderla amusement park at Manchanayakanahalli in Bidadi police limits on the city outskirts on Tuesday morni...
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The railways will examine the driver's health conditions and an inquiry has been ordered.
All India | Written by Monideepa Banerjie | Updated: October 02, 2017&nb...
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Rakesh Ranjan Business Today New Delhi Last Updated: October 3, 2017 ...
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Lohani’s remarks came after some officials had gone to the airport to receive him, despite asking them not to do soMUMBAI Updated: Oct 02, 2017
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DECCAN CHRONICLE. | ANANTH MATHIVANAN PublishedSep 26, 2017,
Passengers then alighted from the train and besieged the station master's room to know the delay for the train's departu...
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Union minister Piyush Goyal says the Indian Railways is working with Isro to explore the use of space technology to make travel by trains more safer
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Yashwant Sinha writes: The economy is on a downward spiral, is poised for a hard landing. Many in the BJP know it but do not say it out of fear
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Mahamana Express: A Train Connecting Varanasi and Vadodara, Two Constituencies That Elevated Narendra Modi from CM to...
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Train ploughs into a flooded station at 60mph sending a wall of water over terrified passengers waiting on the platf...
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Narendra Modi Cabinet meeting Live Updates: 12.3 lakh Railway staff to get Productivity Linked Bonus this festival sea...
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The Indian Railways has decided to recruit one lakh people in safety category (popularly known as sanraksha shreynee). Here are all the detai...
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The Railway Board is also working on a plan to immediately halt the rehabilitation of diesel locomotives, and ensure that no new investments are made on infrastructure to maintain stocks...
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The concept of the Need-Based Minimum Wage has evolved in India over sixty years of Independence and owes its origin to the Directive Principles of the Indian Constitution and the welfare policy of the Government....
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Newsclick looks at some of the main anti-worker components in the Wage Code Bill.
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In the first six months of 2017, 29 train accidents were reported of which 20 were due to derailments, according to a Parliamentary question in Lok Sabha on July 19, 2017.
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Indian Railways struggles to remain on track, staff shortage, low funds, poor safety plague behemoth
IndiaDebobrat GhoseSep, 08 2017
New Delhi: Three back-to-back train derailments in less than 12 hours paint a grim picture of the track safety of Indian Railways...
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Out of the estimated Rs. 1,08,000 crore cost of the project, at least Rs. 30,000 crore would have to be shelled out by the Maharashtra governme...
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India's first bullet train project, work on which was launched by PM Narendra Modi and Japan's Shinzo Abe, will connect Mumbai and Ahmedab...
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BABU BEAT Derailed by overwork
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tnn | Sep 9, 2017,
Ahmedabad: The Ajmer division has on Friday announced a reward for Suryanagari loco pilot, K M Yadav, whose alertness prevented a major tragedy from taking place on Wednesday night. Yadav the loco pilot of the Bandra-Jodhpur Suryanagari express had experienced an unusual jerk between Chitrasan and Jethi station between Palanpur and Abu Road Junctions, and immediately informed authoriti...
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The retrofitting of the current ICF coaches will be an interim safety measure, before converting the entire fleet to the LHB coach...
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Past acts of commision and ommission are now fast catching up with the Railways, and it will be a long and slow struggle before the health of its assets is regai...
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Crumbling structures, shortage of basic amenities compound woes of occupa...
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Titled ‘Strengthening Safety on Indian Railways’, the report was submitted by the international organisation last week.
by Lekshmi Priya Sabo...
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Another jolt to Railways, four wagons of goods train derail near Hardattpur railway station in Uttar Prad...
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Piyush Goyal, who has a background in accounts and law, has been made railway minister in the third cabinet reshuffle following his performance as power minis...
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Cabinet reshuffle, Narendra Modi, Union Ministers, Bureaucrats, IAS, IPS Officer, Swearing in ceremony, NEW DE...
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The newly-appointed Chairman Railway Board has decided to personally felicitate both the loco pilot and assistant loco pilot of the tra...
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The committee, set up by Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu under the Minimum Government and Maximum Governance campaign, is considering changes in the present practice of a pan-India tariff even for suburban and other short distance servic...
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The state-owned China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) are researching trains that can 'fly on the grou...
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South Western Railway workers to be balloted over strike action
RMT says new franchise owner First MTR must give cast-iron assurances over the future of train guards on the netw...
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By Tony Robson 31 August 2017
Train drivers and guards in the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) are to strike from September 1 in a long running dispute against the introduction of Driver Only Operated (DOO) trains by the three transport operating companies (TOCS) – Southern GTR, Northern Rail and Merseyra...
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The President of the Swiss Confederation, Doris Leuthard, on Thursday said that both countries will sign trade agreements and a Memorandum of Understanding ( MoU) on railway infrastructu...
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An India Today investigation into the August 19 train wreck has found that it was anything but oversight by railway authoriti...
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PTI | Aug 30, 2017,
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Among those sacked are 11 gangmen, one ironsmith and a junior engineer
They were workers in the Kathauli section where the accident took place
More than 20 people were killed in the accid...
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In the wake of three train derailments in the last fortnight, a rough estimate made by the government pegs the number of trackmen being used as ‘domestic help’ at 50,000 when they should be used exclusively to keep a vigil on railway trac...
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Passengers were confused as nothing was communicated to them on the unscheduled long halt at the station. Presuming the disturbance in the state as the cause, many passengers made enquiries in a state of pa...
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Siddharth Prabhakar| TNN | Updated: Aug 26, 2017,
Chennai: The recent derailment of Utkal Express in Uttar Pradesh on August 19 where over 20 people died has forced the railway board to do a re-think on the rest provided to engine drivers, known as loco-pilots in railway parlance. This is to ensure that safety of passenger trains is not compromised due to over-worked pilots...
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S. Vijay Kumar THE HINDU CHENNAI,AUGUST 25, 2017
Railways has laid out guidelines for a ‘Zero Accident’ reg...
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Ants had created panic last March when they appeared in the first class compartment of a metro in the Central l...
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The Indian Railways invests in new technologies and persists with old staffing patterns. This must cha...
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BY PRACHEE MISHRA ON 29/08/2017
In 2015-16, a majority of train accidents were caused due to derailments (60%), followed by accidents at level crossings (33...
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With water logging in several places in Mumbai along the railways and low lying areas has brought the city and its transportation to a ha...
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Ahead of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit, the Japanese government is sending a team of railway safety experts to India following a request by New Delhi last mon...
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While railway mishaps are turning alarmingly frequent — yet another derailment of coaches was reported near Mumbai on Tuesday morning — one reason for the poor state of affairs is paucity of manpower at the transporter’s safety-related departmen...
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What stops a high profile career bureaucrat from leaving the power corridor and step into the lucrative boardroom of the private sector?
By: Reema Lokesh | Updated: August 28, 2017&nb...
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Lohani, the chairman of the Railway Board (CRB), has made it clear to the ministry officials that 'VIP culture' must be stopped to bring about a substantial change in the syst...
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Though, he offered to resign in recent light of train accidents, in his two years of tenure, Prabhu was seen bringing passenger friendly reforms in the country’s largest public sector enterpri...
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Challenges on the railroadBy K V Priya Posted On : August 25, 2017 in Business & Politics , News - India & You , New De...
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The problem of railway accidents is not of safety standards but the execution of standards
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Business Sindhu BhattacharyaAug, 24 2017
New Delhi: The Railway Board, the premier decision making body of the country’s largest transporter, comprises a chairman and members for five different functions - Traffic, Traction, Rolling Stock, Engineering and Staff. In the hierarchy of the Indian Railways, the Board is right after the Railway Minister and his Ministers of Sta...
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Safety in Indian Railways by PRS Legislative Research
Safety has been one of the biggest concerns in the Indian Railways system. While the number of accidents have gone down over the last few years, the number still remains over 100 accidents a year. In light of the recent train accidents in Uttar Pradesh (UP), we present some details around accidents and safety in the Indian Railwa...
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Will change ‘VIP culture’, bring ‘working culture’: Ashwani Lohani after taking charge as Railway Board chair...
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Around 84 pct of Railways revenue comes via digital modes: Mohd Jamshed, member-traffic, Railway Board
The carrier has introduced various initiatives, especially after demonetisation, to offer customers ways to make payments through digital mod...
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Amid the calls for fixing accountability, one wonders where are the voices that speak of the need for fixing faults.
In the wee hours of Wednesday, August 23, the destinies of passengers aboard the Kaifiyat Express, bound for Delhi, received a major jolt in Auraiya — in another derailment in Uttar Pradesh, the second in five days...
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Ashwani Lohani, who was at the helm of Air India for two years was appointed as the Chairman of the Railway Board, after incumbent A K Mital tendered his resignation on Wednesday after Kaifiyat express derailed near Auriya in Uttar Prade...
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Arvind Chauhan| TNN | Updated: Aug 20, 2017,
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The incident took place near Chamrola station, 180 km away from Delhi on Sunday morning at around 7:35 ...
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Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 23 (PTI): A branch of a tree fell on the locomotive of an express train coming here from New Delhi at Chingavanam near Kottayam this afternoon, but none was injur...
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Union Railway minister Suresh Prabhu on Wednesday said he was personally monitoring the situation of Kaifiyat Express derailment.
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Who is Ashwani Lohani: Meet new Railway Board Chairman; things you may not know about him
The Narendra Modi government on Wednesday appointed Ashwani Lohani as the new Chairman of Railway Board. The big development comes on the day when Suresh Prabhu offered to quit from the post of Railways Ministe...
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With 16 percent of the safety posts lying vacant, patrolling of rail tracks diffic...
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By Express News Service | Published: 22nd August 2017
CHENNAI: Two days after Utkal Express derailed in Uttar Pradesh, leading to the death of 24 passengers, the All India Loco Running Staff Association (AILRSA) has demanded the implementation of extended traffic blocks, required manpower and track machines to ensure proper track maintenance....
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By Alex González 23 August 2017
A new study by the United Nation’s Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL) reveals that economic inequality in Mexico is much higher than had been previously estimated. According to the study, the top 10 percent of Mexicans received over two thirds of the country’s income in 2012, while the bottom 10 percent earned just 0.4 percent that same year. This level of inequality is...
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The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority said the crash happened around 12:15 a.m. Tuesday.
SEPTA said 33 people aboard the train were injured.Published 3 Hours Ago&nb...
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THE HINDU -Tamil Nadu STAFF REPORTER VELLORE,AUGUST 22, 2017
Accident in 2011 claimed lives of 12 and injured...
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According to the railways, under the rolling stock production programme, there will be only 801 conventional coaches manufactured in 2017-18 and, subsequently, no such coaches will be produced.
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Editorial | 21 Aug 2017
The fate of Indian Railways hangs by a loose thread, and unless amended urgently it could fall flat on its face beckoning tragedy upon hundreds who rely on this system while also rattling our entire economy that largely depends on the railways for effective transportation and communication across difficult terrains in the Indian peninsula....
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Authorities said the "Fuxing" bullet train will shorten the travel time between Beijing and Shanghai by more than an hour.
World | NDTV News Desk | Updated: August 21, 2017 ...
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Derailments drove the toll up.
21/08/2017
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Railway Ministry sources said 346 accidents have occurred since 2015 when Prabhu took over the portfolio. He seems to be making the same mistakes as his predecesso...
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Here are major train accidents in the country in recent past
23 dead as 14 coaches of Utkal Express derail in Muzaffarna...
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Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu on Sunday said that he has asked for responsibility to be fixed, based on prima facie evidence, by the end of the day in the deadly Kalinga Utkal Express derailment in Uttar Prade...
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Nepal is building a new railway network to boost its ailing economy—helped by the rivalry between its powerful neighbours, China and In...
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ANJALI BISARIA AUGUST 11, 2017
India is set to celebrate her 70th Independence Day in four days. But incidents such as these set us back 70 years. ...
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HARSHITH MALLYA 10 AUGUST 2017
GE Transportation and Indian Railways to launch 1,000 fuel-efficient trains by 2025. Here are 4 technologies key to this initiative. The Indian Railways aims to be more fuel-efficient and become a bigger part of the ‘Digital India’ narrative. Here is an overview of how GE Transportation envisions this...
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The idea suggested by the parliament panel of going back to the old ways of subsidizing ‘socially desirable projects’ is one from the previous era...
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Ten central trade unions decide to hold a three-day protest in Delhi in November to press for their 12-point charter of demands including minimum wage and social security
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The Railway Ministry is now assessing the results and will conduct further trials, said sourc...
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Resolutions are adopted in extended CWC meeting held at Nagpur on 3rd & 4th Aug 20...
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Extended Central Working Committee meeting of AILRSA was held at Maheswari Bhavan, Nagpur on 3rd and 4th of August 2017. The meeting was controlled by a presidium consisting of Com. L.Mony, Com. R.R.Bhagat and Com. M.P.Deo. Secretary General submitted a detailed report and Central Treasurer submitted the finance report. 48 delegates from all the 16 zones except one i.e. NFR took part in deliberations...
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PM Modi and Japanese PM Shinzo Abe will together lay the foundation stone of the 508-km corridor between Ahmedabad and Mumbai during the Japanese premier's visit to India in September...
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The Indian Railways is fighting on several fronts to tackle issues such as quality of service, freight loss and passenger amenities, among others, and the size of the institution makes it even harder to resolve all issu...
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Team MP | 4 Aug 2017
| Kolkata In a tragic incident, a railway guard was killed at Liluah Rail workshop when a wheel of a goods train accidentally fell on him on Friday morning. 55-year-old Adesh Singh remained trapped under the heavy wheel for sometime when he was rescued by his comrades and was rushed to the local hospital where he was declared brought de...
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IndiaChandan KumarAug, 04 2017
Indian Railways has decided to remove one toilet each from over 40 thousand coaches citing space constraints. As per reports, the Indian Railways lacks sufficient space to keep food trays and beverages in train coaches. They are generally kept in the vestibule near the toilet area, which not only is a health hazard but also unclean, CNN-News18report...
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GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS
REPORT OF TASK FORCE ON SAFETY
Ministry of Railways (Railway Board) on 06.12.2016 constituted a Task Force to suggest system and process to improve the safety performance...
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THE ASIAN AGE. | ARPIKA BHOSALE
Published : Jul 23, 2017,
The technical glitches in long distance trains in motion will be recorded by high-quality CCTV camer...
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The unusual snag caused an hour-long delay
Offbeat | NDTV Offbeat Desk | Updated: August 01, 2017&nb...
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I used to love train travel – but it has become an inexcusable rip-...
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People are holding their breath on the completion of the tunnel while ensuring that the Great Wall is not damaged in the process, the Global Times reported.WORLD Updated: Aug 01, 2017
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National Council( JCM) representing the employees in Central Govt sector- Income Tax, Audit etc, Postal Employees, Defence Employees and Railway Employees jointly conducted a convention at New Delhi on 11.12.2014 and adopted a joint declaration demanding the Central Government to settle the ten point charter of demands also against the anti workers policies. Subsequently National Joint Council of Action (NJCA) was formed. Due to various reasons...
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By S Lalitha | Express News Service | Published: 26th July 2017
BENGALURU: For three months, these petty thieves had put the safety of rail passengers at risk as well as baffled the Railway Police by their nocturnal activity of dismantling signal posts along the Bengaluru-Tumakuru railway tracks and selling them in the scrap mark...
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Launched by Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu in May, Tejas runs between Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus and Karmali in Goa. Tejas has the highest ticket fare per kilometre for trains in the country, with an executive chair-car seat costing around Rs 2,940 with food for the 552-km tr...
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Some services carried twice as many people as trains were designed for, Department for Transport figures s...
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At least 18 of the injured need hospital attention, emergency services said. The driver was among the injured, they sa...
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With his acknowledged reputation Suresh Prabhu as IR’s helmsman raised expectations that it would be rescued from the tail-spin it had lapsed into. Prabhu underscored in his last budget speech the need to “reorganise, restructure and rejuvenate” railwa...
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Sweden's MTR Express unveils Trainy McTrainface after public poll.
The name won 49 percent of votes versus alternatives including Miriam and Poseidon.
It comes after British officials rejected a vote to name its polar research vessel Boaty McBoatface.
Karen Gilchrist | @_karengilchristFriday, 21 Jul 2017 | ETCNBC.com
MTR Express
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong announced on Tuesday a controversial plan to allow mainland officials to enforce Chinese laws inside a Hong Kong train station, an immigration set-up critics say will encroach on the city's autonomy and endanger existing freedo...
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An unidentified commuter threw the bag from a CST-bound train around 12.3...
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"A mechanism may be put in place to ensure strict compliance to norms of cleaning blankets and pillows as per required periodicity," the CAG report recommend...
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The blueprint analyses government statistics to show that 25 per cent of domestic air travel happens over inter-city distances within 500 km — a segment where the Railways was always believed to enjoy a monopoly — contrary to popular perception that air travel is chosen only for 800-1,000-km distanc...
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July 23, 2017, SA Aiyar in Swaminomics | Economy, India | TOI
Having established a reputation as an incrementalist who shuns radical change, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has suddenly changed expectations by opting to privatise Air India. This is such a huge public sector giant with so many subsidiaries and lakhs of employees that nobody ever dreamed it could come first in the list of Modi privatisations. Yet that is the case...
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Kapil Dave & Himanshu Kaushik| TNN | Updated: Jul 23, 2017,
HIGHLIGHTS
In Ahmedabad, details are being finalized for the station for the bullet train
Shinzo Abe and Narendra Modi will also take part in the launch of two Japan Industrial Pa...
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Yogesh Tejwani| TNN | Updated: Jul 22, 2017,
Bhopal: The much awaited rains in the state have left the loco-pilots of West Central Railway (WCR) worrying. Heavy downpour forces them to crane their necks outside the window to check the signals. Time and again they even have to clean the wind shields — hanging half outside to manage the task — all this because the wipers of most of the trains are faul...
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Fri, 21 Jul 2017- , PTI
Over 350 railway officers are facing cases of major penalty, the government informed the Rajya Sabha today...
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Railway minister Suresh Prabhu says the government is working with companies like Hyperloop to increase the speed of trains to more than 600 km per h...
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Here are 5 important points to know
In a scathing report, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has revealed major lapses in the Indian Railways catering services and said that the food and water sold at the railway stations and trains are “unfit for human consumptio...
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PR case was filed initially at CAT Bangalore on 30.03.1999
Relief sought...
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The Cabinet today cleared a 15 per cent hike in salaries for public sector company employees.
The Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved implementation of the recommendations of the 3rd Pay Commission for central public sector enterprises’ (CPSE) employees, an official said he...
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PTI| Updated: Jul 17, 2017,
MUMBAI: Automations solutions provider Siemens Limited today said it has bagged the contract to install state-of-the-art IGBT technology for Indian Railways.&nb...
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THE ASIAN AGE. | ARPIKA BHOSALE Published : Jul 16, 2017,
Stress is common among drivers who are on duty during peak hou...
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Scheme valid for a year or till the vacancies get filled; retirement benefits to stay the same; daily remuneration to be deci...
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The flash floods resulted from an alarming rise in the water levels in the Nagavalli and the Kalyani rive...
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By Karishma Ravindran | Jul 16, 2017
Mumbai : Ever thought why a motorman honks in a different pattern at a station, other than a single whistle which is blown like a ritual before the train chugs out of the platform...
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Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu launched a new integrated mobile app 'SAARTHI - synergised advanced application rail travel help and information' for passenge...
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IndiaPTI Jul, 13 2017
New Delhi: The government, the biggest litigator in the country, faces 369 contempt cases across courts, a Law ministry document states.
According to its data, as on 12 June, 2017, a total of 1,35,060 government cases and 369 contempt cases were pending in the cour...
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Southern rail passengers face more misery as drivers vote to strike in Aug...
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By Jeff Lusanne 12 July 2017
On Monday, Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 308, the union covering 3,600 train operators and dozens of associated rail workers, announced that the local union membership had voted by a margin of 98 percent in favor of a strike against the Chicago Transit Authority (CT...
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Wed, 28 Jun 2017, PTI
The union has demanded that the govt waive off the airline's debt instead of selling it to a private player
The Cabinet today cleared disinvestment of beleaguered national airline, Air India which has floundered amid stiff competition from no-frills rivals and reported at least seven years of loss...
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The incident taught them what Mumbai’s lifeline meant for the city. Resuming services within three hours after the blast, people were back to using local trains the next day for the regular commu...
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Former railway officials and some private companies have been implicated in the Rail Neer scam ca...
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The Sichuan-Tibet Railway will be the second railway into Tibet region after the Qinghai-Tibet Railw...
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Prabhu pointed out that the rail ministry's freight policy encouraged private partnership which would also generate employment opportuniti...
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SHEWALI TIWARI JULY 04, 2017
Home to an extraordinary variety of climatic conditions, India can burn you with the sun in one minute and then shower massive rains at the same time, making travelling a terrible experience for many...
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Recent RBO are in PDF hence a link is provided here to visit Google drive of AILRSA SWR
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B7e1axsx9asMUmVBWkJJVmNBR0...
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UDAY Express double-decker train from Coimbatore to Bengaluru soon; boasts of automatic food vending machines, LCD screens and m...
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IndiaPTIJul, 02 2017
New Delhi: Customer-facing staff of railways will be sporting designer uniforms complete with fluorescent jackets and black and yellow T-shirts from this festive season in Octob...
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ALL INDIA LOCO RUNNING STAFF ASSOCIATION
Reg No. 17903 HQ Adra
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Siddharth Prabhakar| TNN | Jul 1, 2017,
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CHENNAI: Even as encroachers are sitting pretty , and railway administration is unable to evict them due to non-cooperation from the state governmentauthorities, the union railway minister Suresh Prabhu flagged off a 7km line in the city, though the stretch is lying incomplete still.
During his...
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List of allowances recommended will
be effective from 1st July 2017.
No arrears from 1st Jan 2016....
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A BRIEF narration of NJCA actions and result:
National Council( JCM) representing the employees in Central Govt sector- Income Tax, Audit etc, Postal Employees, Defence Employees and Railway Employees jointly conducted a convention at New Delhi on 11.12.2014 and adopted a joint declaration demanding the Central Government to settle the ten point charter of demands also against the anti workers policies. Subsequently National Joint Council of...
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NATIONWIDE PROTEST DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST THE CABINET DECISION ON ALLOWANCES TO CG EMPLOY...
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By Isaac Finn 29 June 2017
On June 27, a subway train in New York City derailed near the 125th Street Station injuring 34 riders, including 17 who were taken to the hospital, creating service delays on multiple lin...
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