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Metro rail delays: Minister hints at tardy response by Bengal Government
May 21, 2013 at 21:07 | Source: The Hindu BusinessLine
Kolkata, May 21: Union Minister of State for Railways Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Tuesday hinted at lack of cooperation from the West Bengal Government in completing a slew of metro rail projects in Kolkata worth nearly Rs 17,000 crore. According to C...
1971 is dividing Bangladesh again and there's nothing India can do
May 10, 2013 at 16:53 | Source: FirstPost
It was the morning of the tenth day of Shravan, recalled Korfuly Bewa, that morning when her husband was marched home from the fields by Pakistan army troops and their local collaborators. The soldiers demanded to know whether Bewas husband was a muk...
Google doodles 160th anniversary of India's first passenger train
Apr 16, 2013 at 17:07 | Source: DomainB
Google today marked the 160th anniversary of India's first passenger train journey with a doodle on its India home page. On 16 April 1853, the first passenger train chugged out from Bori Bunder in Bombay to Thane, covering a distance of 34 km in 21 ...
Google Doodle marks historic first passenger train service in India
Apr 16, 2013 at 16:27 | Source: The Hindu BusinessLine
Kolkata, April 16: Search engine major Google on Tuesday celebrated the 160th anniversary of India's first passenger train travel with a doodle. Though not an interactive one, the doodle, prominently displayed on the company's India home page, has t...
Indian Chamber to organise logistics summit
Apr 08, 2013 at 22:17 | Source: The Hindu BusinessLine
Coimbatore, April 8: A one-day ‘Logistics Summit and B2C Connect 2013’ is being organised here on April 20 by the Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI), Coimbatore. R. Dinesh, MD, TVS Logistics and Services, will inaugurate the ...
Private sector participation imperative for rail network expansion: Pawan Bansal
Apr 05, 2013 at 13:07 | Source: Assocham
The private sector participation is imperative to meet the growing needs for expansion of Indian Railways network, union minister for railways, Mr Pawan Kumar Bansal said at an ASSOCHAM event held in New Delhi today. To meet the needs of the project...
Customs wants better rail link thru Petrapole
Apr 03, 2013 at 23:07 | Source: The Hindu BusinessLine
Kolkata, April 3: In an attempt to promote bilateral trade between India and Bangladesh, the customs authorities have proposed expansion of rail capacities at Petrapole in West Bengal. Petrapole (land customs station) accounts for more than half of ...
21 stocks to play the crude-by-rail trend
Mar 26, 2013 at 00:42 | Source: Market Watch
Railroads have been the enablers of the North American oil-production boom, and 21 stocks that stand to benefit from the trend. According to analysts at Raymond James, who compiled the list, rail transport is cost-effective, rapidly deployable, a...
Coal India plans Rs 9,000-cr power plant in Odisha
Mar 07, 2013 at 18:02 | Source: The Hindu BusinessLine
New Delhi, March 7: Coal India, the world’s largest coal producer, plans to take a proposal for setting up a Rs 9,000-crore power plant in Odisha to its board for approval in the next couple of months. The 2x800 megawatt (MW) plant at the mout...
Railways to allow transporters to invest in automobile freight wagons
Mar 07, 2013 at 01:57 | Source: DomainB
The railway ministry has revised the Automobile Freight Train Operator (AFTO) Scheme 2013 to allow logistics service providers and road transporters to invest in wagons and to tie up with end-users so as to market train services. The new AFTO scheme...
London metro operator to build 150-km Mumbai metro network
Mar 04, 2013 at 21:37 | Source: DomainB
The Maharashtra government today signed a memorandum of understanding with Transport For London (TFL), for developing a 150-kam-long metro network in Mumbai, the country's commercial capital. Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) ...
Rail budget fails to cheer market, Sensex plunges 316 pts to 3-mth low
Feb 27, 2013 at 21:17 | Source: Business Today
The BSE benchmark Sensex on Tuesday plummeted by 316.55 points to close at three-month low of 19,015.14 as the rail budget dampened the market sentiment amid particularly weak global cues.The Sensex at one point of time fell below 19,000 level for t...
South Central Rly gets 19 services
Feb 27, 2013 at 00:36 | Source: The Hindu BusinessLine
Hyderabad, Feb. 26: This time the South Central Railway did not get as many projects and new services from the Railway Budget as it did last year. But, even then, its share in the Budget has some significant offerings. Apart from eight new express t...
Feb 26, 2013 at 21:57 | Source: The Hindu BusinessLine
February 26, 2013: The Railway Budget 2013 is a bit of a damp squib — it is difficult to find something to commend it when pre-budget expectations were so high. While rail transport is the most preferred and economical for both freight and pas...
Railway Budget fails to cheer market; Sensex plunges 316 points to 3-month low
Feb 26, 2013 at 18:16 | Source: DNA India
The BSE benchmark Sensex on Tuesday plummeted by 316.55 points to close at three-month low of 19,015.14 as the rail budget dampened the market sentiment amid particularly weak global cues. The Sensex at one point of time fell below 19,000 level for t...
Rail Budget fails to cheer market; Sensex plunges 316 points to 3-month low
Feb 26, 2013 at 17:56 | Source: Economic Times
MUMBAI: The BSE benchmark Sensex today plummeted by 316.55 points to close at three-month low of 19,015.14 as the rail budget dampened the market sentiment amid particularly weak global cues. The Sensex at one point of time fell below 19,000 level f...
Feb 22, 2013 at 23:41 | Source: The Hindu BusinessLine
Wipro Chairman Azim Premji has rightly warned that a balance should be maintained between services and manufacturing sector. “India surprisingly has a component of services industry contributing 58 per cent of the GDP, which is equal to develo...
SPS Shipping ties up with Doehle Danautic India
Feb 07, 2013 at 19:51 | Source: The Hindu BusinessLine
Kolkata, Feb 7: City-based SPS Shipping Ltd today announced an extensive collaboration with Mumbai-based Doehle Danautic India to build one of the largest shipping service-related businesses in the country. The alliance was conceptualised to serve o...
China gears up for Lunar New Year travel rush
Jan 27, 2013 at 23:20 | Source: The Hindu BusinessLine
The world’s biggest annual human migration will take place in China shortly with majority of over 1.3 billion people set to travel before next month’s Chinese Lunar New Year.Railways geared up to handle an estimated 5.2 million daily trip...
Jayalalithaa flays hike in railway fares
Jan 10, 2013 at 16:57 | Source: The Hindu BusinessLine
Chennai, Jan. 9: The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa has condemned the hike in railway fares announced by the Railway Ministry today. She urged that the Centre withdraw the fare hike as it would affect the majority of the public. The move ...
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