New Delhi: Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi has been isolated by his party as internal pressure grows on him to quit. Sources say Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee has spoken to Dinesh Trivedi and asked him to put in his papers. But the Railway Minister has hit back and told Kalyan Banerjee that party supremo Mamata Banerjee should give it in writing and that he'll resign only after a written order....
10:50 AM, Mar 17, 2012
New Delhi: The Congress has agreed to remove Dinesh Trivedi as the Railway Minister, according to sources in the Trinamool Congress. However, sources say that the Congress has told Trinamool supremo Mamata Banerjee that sacking Trivedi would give him sympathy and make him a hero. Trinamool leader Kalyan Banerjee has asked Dinesh Trivedi to resign, but Trivedi said that he will resign only when he gets a written command from...
10:00 AM, Mar 17, 2012
New Delhi: The Congress Core group meet on Friday evening failed to come up with any solution to the crisis, sources say a decision on removing Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi may only be taken next week after the Prime Minister's reply in Parliament on the President's speech and the Rail Budget. Sources in Trivedi's party said that the Trinamool Congress too is yet to come up with any plan or...
06:23 AM, Mar 17, 2012
New Delhi: Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi, whose fate hangs in balance, on Friday maintained his decision on the fare hike, saying it was in the best interest of the nation, adding he had full faith in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. "The country and I have full faith in the PM. I will do and have done what's in the best interest of the nation and the Indian Railways," Trivedi said....
09:56 PM, Mar 16, 2012
New Delhi: A decision on the fate of Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi is unlikely before Monday. An indication to this effect came on Friday night after the Congress top brass including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and party chief Sonia Gandhi deliberated deeply on the strategy ahead in the backdrop of the Trivedi issue and the Uttarakhand crisis. The meeting of the Congress Core Group was held ahead of the discussion...
08:27 PM, Mar 16, 2012
New Delhi: Passengers travelling in all AC classes and first class will have to pay charges in addition to the recent hike in train fares with the General Budget on Friday bringing journeys in them under the ambit of service tax. With this move, passengers would have to pay over three per cent over and above the recent train fare increases. While public transport in general has been kept in...
06:41 PM, Mar 16, 2012
New Delhi: Delhi Metro on Friday got a budgetary allocation of Rs 2,200 crore for construction of its ambitious Phase-III project that envisages extending the modern transport system further in the national capital. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee announced in his 2012-2013 Budget that the Central Government will infuse Rs 1,112.57 crore as its equity, while it will get a pass through assistance of Rs 749.12 crore. He said Rs 2,116.69...
06:14 PM, Mar 16, 2012
New Delhi: A decision on the fate of Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi is expected "any moment", Trinamool leader Sudip Bandopadhyay has said. "It is an issue which is being dealt with by Mamata Banerjee and the Prime Minister. In between them, conversations have already been held. So, naturally the decision will be taken any moment," he told reporters outside Parliament. The Trinamool Congress leader said the Prime Minister spoke to...
05:06 PM, Mar 16, 2012
New Delhi: Union Finance Pranab Mukherjee as the senior-most Cabinet Minister is likely reply on Railway Budget in Parliament on Monday following Trinamool Congress's diktat to sack Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi for increasing passenger fares across all the classes, sources told CNN-IBN. Even though the fate of Trivedi is not clear, he attended the Cabinet meeting on Union Budget on Friday. Trivedi is likely to stay in the Cabinet till...
10:31 AM, Mar 16, 2012
Jammu: Supporting Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee's demand of replacing Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi, PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Thursday said that her agenda has always been pro-poor. "(West Bengal Chief Minister) Mamata's agenda has always been pro-people and pro-poor," Mufti said while defending West Bengal Chief Minister's move. "Mamata is all the time doing what she thinks is good. I do not think you can blame her for being...
01:34 AM, Mar 16, 2012
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11:50 PM, Mar 15, 2012
New Delhi: An unprecedented drama has almost derailed the UPA government after the railway budget in Parliament. The suspense over the fate of Union Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi continued on Thursday. Trivedi maintained that he hadn't quit as yet, and the government also said the same. According to sources, the government has told Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee that Trivedi must not be sacked at least till the budget session....
09:18 PM, Mar 15, 2012
New Delhi: Union Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi, who is facing opposition from within his own party for proposing a hike in passenger fare in the Rail Budget, on Thursday got support from the Railway Unions which lauded his initiative and refused to accept a rollback. In an appeal to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, a federation of railway employees said the hike in rail fare was long overdue and they would...
05:19 PM, Mar 15, 2012
New Delhi: Taking a dig at the government over the controversy concerning the Union Rail Budget and Minister Dinesh Trivedi, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday said that the government was not letting them do anything and was itself acting as the Opposition as well. Calling the Rail Budget an additional burden on the common man, former BJP president Venkaiah Naidu said that the UPA had betrayed the people,...
05:03 PM, Mar 15, 2012
New Delhi: The Congress seems to be hardening its stand on Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's diktat to remove Dinesh Trivedi as the Railway Minister. The Congress on Thursday conveyed to Mamata that Trivedi should stay on as the Railway Minister till the end of the Budget Session. Congress leaders pointed out to Mamata that sacking a minister mid session and swearing in another person...
04:46 PM, Mar 15, 2012
Raghaviah, General Secy, National Federation of Indian Railwaymen, said that they are supporting the Railway Minister. ...
04:32 PM, Mar 15, 2012
New Delhi: Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi, whose removal has been demanded by his party leader and Trinamool Congress boss Mamata Banerjee, on Thursday said he has not resigned as yet. However, he made it clear that he would resign the moment the Prime Minister or Mamata Banerjee ask him to do. "No one has sought my resignation till now. My job is to get the Budget passed in Parliament. I...
01:40 PM, Mar 15, 2012
New Delhi: The Rail Budget has been presented. Dinesh Trivedi has reportedly been asked to resign. And the fiasco has thrown one man into the limelight - Mukul Roy. Who is Mukul Roy Many see Roy as a trusted lieutenant of Mamata Banerjee. He is also the general secretary of the Trinamool Congress. Roy was the Minister of State for Railways when the twin train disasters happened in Guwahati in...
12:27 PM, Mar 15, 2012
New Delhi: Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, an Indian entrepreneur and chairman and MD of Biocon Limited came out strongly against Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Thursday, tweeting that her party was going to be a "bane" for West Bengal. "Mamta is a dangerous, populist demagogue: economically illiterate but politically astute - deadly combo!" Shaw tweeted. "Mamta is a sad reflection on just how feudal our society and culture is -...
12:00 PM, Mar 15, 2012
New Delhi: The confusion over the resignation of Dinesh Trivedi as the Railway Minister continues with Trinamool Congress leaders making contradictory statements over the issue. Trinamool Congress Parliamentary party chief in the Lok Sabha, Sudip Bandyopadhyay, said inside the House that the party never asked Trivedi to step down as the Railway Minister just a few minutes after he told the media outside Parliament that a new railway minister would...
11:43 AM, Mar 15, 2012
