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    • First Vande Bharat sleeper needs 'minor' retrofitting, will be launched next month: Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw

      Notably, the Railway Ministry, in a written statement to RDSO on October 28, conveyed its sanction for the introduction of a 16-car Vande Bharat Sleeper train with certain modifications for future improvements.

    • 1% of railway land under commercial use, 0.22% under encroachment: Ashwini Vaishnaw

      Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw informed that the Railways permits use of its land for social infrastructure like hospitals, Kendriya Vidyalayas for a period up to 60 years at Re 1 per square metre per annum.

    • Modi 3.0 Cabinet: Ashwini Vaishnaw to lead railway ministry again as safety and punctuality remain major concerns

      The new railway minister will oversee the execution of several important initiatives in the Centre's 100-day agenda planned before the elections

    • No hike in rail fares in name of station revamp, says Ashwini Vaishnaw

      Vaishnaw said about Rs 25,000 crore needed for the redevelopment project will be allocated through the current Budget, asserting that the project is aimed at facilitating seamless travel for passengers across all strata of society.

    • Balasore train crash: Congress seeks FIR against PM, railway minister for negligence

      Congress spokesperson Ajoy Kumar alleged that there was a conspiracy on the part of the railway minister that caused the death of 288 people and injuries to more than 1,000 in the crash in Odisha's Balasore, involving three trains.

    • Odisha Train Tragedy: Tracks at Balasore accident site repaired, says Ashwini Vaishnaw

      Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw tweeted that track linking Up-line has been restored and overhead electification work has also started.

    • Railways to upgrade ticketing capacity from 25,000 to 2.25 lakh a minute: Ashwini Vaishnaw

      The railways will lay tracks for a distance of 7,000 kilometers in the financial year 2023-24, the minister has said

    • IRCTC's revenue 'reduced drastically' in 2020-21 due to Covid-related restrictions: Govt

      He added that the revenue increased gradually after the situation normalised.

    • CBI charge sheet against Lalu Prasad, Rabri Devi in land for jobs scam

      The CBI had named the RJD supremo, his wife, and daughters Misa Bharti and Hema Yadav, in addition to 12 others who were given jobs in Railway zones of Mumbai, Jabalpur, Kolkata, Jaipur, and Hajipur in 2008-09, in the case.

    • Railway concessions may return for senior citizens but with riders

      Also on the cards is tweaking the age criteria by extending the concessional fare to those above 70 years, as against the earlier 58 for women and 60 for men, they said. The idea, the sources indicated, is to offset the cost of granting these concessions for the Railways while retaining the subsidy for the elderly.

    • Over 2000 trains cancelled during Agnipath protests between June 15 and June 23: Railway Minister

      In a written reply in Rajya Sabha, he said 2132 trains were cancelled between June 15 and June 23.

    • Over 90 pc land acquired for Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train project: NHSRCL

      The high-speed bullet train is expected to cover the 508-km journey from Ahmedabad to Mumbai in 2 hours and 58 minutes, as against the current travel time of over six hours.

    • Woman goes into labour on board Shramik Special, gets help thanks to Railway Minister

      Hailing from Kahalgaon in Bhagalpur district, Krishna and Asha had boarded a train back home from Ludhiana in Punjab, where the husband had been eking out a living.

    • More than 48,000 fake mineral water bottles seized across India

      More than 800 persons, including managers of four pantry cars, were arrested in the raid.

    • Job security irrespective of performance is govt jobs' attraction: Piyush Goyal

      Goyal and Union Minister for Human Resource Development Prakash Javadekar were speaking at a CII workshop on jobs and livelihoods.

    • Focus on quality over variety: Piyush Goyal to railway caterers

      Goyal, who was in Thane as part of the BJP's day-long nationwide fast over the washout of the budget session of Parliament, spoke via-video conference with the representatives of the food and beverage industry to improve catering services on trains.

    • Railway Minister Piyush Goyal hospitalised in Mumbai; stable

      Goyal, who was to address a press conference at the Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus at around 6:30 PM, was rushed to the private hospital here when he complained of uneasiness.

    • Scale up food processing sector by ten-fold in 5 years: Piyush Goyal

      A quantum jump in the size and growth of food processing sector is needed, which would be in sync with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision of doubling farmer's income by 2022, industry body CII quoted Goyal as saying in a statement.

    • Food served must carry details of quantity, supplier: Railway Minister

      In a letter addressed to all zonal general managers, the railway board has said that Goyal has asked that food served to passengers has the name of the supplier or contractor, weight, date of packing and a distinct symbol indicating if it is vegetarian or non-vegetarian.

    • Bullet trains will be affordable with competitive pricing: Piyush Goyal

      Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe are scheduled to lay the foundation stone of the much-anticipated bullet train project on September 14.

    • Suresh Prabhu should resign if an iota of morality left in him: Congress

      Reacting to reported resignation of Railway Board chairman A K Mittal from his post, Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari said "asking" Mittal to step down was the "worst kind of tokenism".

    • Days after Utkal Express incident, Railway Board Chairman resigns

      Mittal was facing flak after the Utkal Express derailment in Muzaffarnagar. On Saturday, 23 passengers died and over 60 sustained injuries when 14 coaches of the Utkal Express, which runs on the Puri-Haridwar-Kalinga route, derailed at Khatauli in Muzaffarnagar.

    • Committed for overall development of Railways, says Suresh Prabhu

      Prabhu flagged off the weekly super-fast express from Sainagar railway station here to Dadar (Mumbai) in presence of Union minister Subhash Bhamare and Maharashtra minister Jaykumar Rawal.

    • Cyber security a priority area for railways: Suresh Prabhu

      Speaking at a conference attendended by senior rail officials, Prabhu said that as part of modernisation and maintenance of railways, the ministry has lauched several initiatives over the past three years like RailCloud Server and Rail Saarthi App and is working on a enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution.

    • Govt working to transform railways into real engine of growth: Suresh Prabhu

      Speaking at the silver jubilee function of Symbiosis Institute of International Business (SIIB), Prabhu said a lot of people give advice on railways.

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