BANGALORE: Monsoon showers affected the civic life, with eight trees uprooting incidents across the city were reported on Tuesday evening. Interestingly, this time the Palike staff attended the complaints on time and avoided traffic miseries.However, water-logging in Okalipuram, Shivananda Circle, Mysore Road, Residency Road, Richmond Road, and Rajajinagar resulted in snail pace traffic in these areas. BBMP sources said Bangalore South was worst affected and four old trees in separate...
08:37 AM, May 16, 2012
New Delhi: The government on Thursday said over one lakh vacancies in Railways will be filled up during this fiscal, including the safety related posts, and the e-booking site will be upgraded to enable one million ticket sale per day. Railway Minister Mukul Roy said while 75,000 candidates have been recruited following the streamlining of the examination process, "1.44 lakh candidates are proposed to be recruited during 2012-13. This will...
02:40 AM, May 11, 2012
Mumbai: Disruption in train services is fast becoming a norm in the Mumbai suburban rail network. Of late, glitch after glitch has tossed the daily travel schedule of many of the nearly 70 lakh suburban commuters askew. Yesterday gave a double testimony to this growing disturbance. There were technical problems on both Central and Western Railways, especially during morning and evening peak hours. The first incident took place near Vashi...
01:06 PM, May 03, 2012
New Delhi: Reflecting broadening of bilateral relations, India is inclined to supply locomotives along with transfer of technology to Pakistan in response to a request from that country. A team of Pakistani railway officials is in New Delhi for discussing the modalities for cooperation in the sector, Railway Board Chairman Vinay Mittal told. The three-member team of the Pakistan Railways Advisory and Consultancy Services Limited (PRACS) held preliminary discussions with...
03:37 AM, Apr 27, 2012
Vidyadhar Malegaonkar, Chief PRO, Central Railway said that people in Mumbai were forced to trespass railway lines as "there are not too many connectivities". ...
08:29 AM, Apr 20, 2012
Mumbai: A day after three people died because of heavy rush in Mumbai's local trains, officials are hopeful of restoring services to normal on Friday. They also say that trains just see a delay of maximum 10 minutes and that 95 per cent of the Central Railway is on track. The signal repairing work will also be completed by Friday night. On Thursday, three commuters in an overcrowded Kalyan CST...
08:21 AM, Apr 20, 2012
On Thursday morning, three commuters in an overcrowded Kalyan-CST local hit a signal pole and fell to their death. ...
08:16 AM, Apr 20, 2012
India on Thursday test fired its most powerful long-range missile Agni-V successfully giving India the much-needed muscle and a strong deterrence against China. ...
11:28 PM, Apr 19, 2012
Mumbai: The turbulence in local trains in Mumbai has taken a toll. Three people died after they fell from a local train between Nahur and Bhandup stations (central line) during heavy rush. Fifteen people were injured. The Nahur station is just ahead of the Mulund station. Central Railway chief PRO Vidyadhar Malegaonkar said the primary reason of the incident was overcrowding. Union Railway Minister Mukul Roy has announced compensation for...
12:04 PM, Apr 19, 2012
Mumbai: Were surely looking into the future with this technology. Officials behind the world's fourth largest railway network, the Indian railways are, according to a report by The Economic Times toying with the idea of fitting a GPS-based solution in trains, to help it provide real-time tracking - accessible on mobile devices and PCs. Although still under debate and discussion, the reports have confirmed that the Centre for Railway Information...
04:02 PM, Apr 02, 2012
Indians are big losers because the Indian Railways lack drive, ambition and imagination. How? Delhi and Mumbai (1,380 km) are about as distant as Beijing ...
04:22 PM, Mar 29, 2012
New Delhi: To overcome the problem of foodgrains storage, the government is building an additional 15 million tonnes capacity in 19 states with help from private enterprenuers. "Nearly 15 million tonnes capacity is being created under the Private Entrepreneur's Guarantee Scheme", Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said in his budget speech on Friday. Out of this, 3 million tonnes of storage capacity will be added by the end of 2011-12 and...
06:05 PM, Mar 16, 2012
New Delhi: The Railways is likely to miss its revenue target of about Rs 1.06 lakh crore in the current fiscal. The Railways is expected to fall short of its targeted revenues by as much as Rs 2,322 crore mainly due to lower passenger earnings. As per official data, Railways is projected to see gross traffic receipts to the tune of Rs 1.04 lakh crore for the year ending March...
04:31 AM, Mar 15, 2012
New Delhi: Presenting the Railway budget 2012 in Parliament on Wednesday, Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi announced hike in passenger fares. This is the first hike in passenger fares in the last 10 years. The Railway Minister also announced 75 new express trains and 21 new passenger trains. Trivedi also laid stress on the need for modernisation of Railways. Here is how it all happened as Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi presented...
02:54 PM, Mar 14, 2012
New Delhi: Here is the list of new express trains, passenger trains, MEMU, DEMU, extension of run and increase in frequency of trains announced in Railway Budget 2012-13. 1. Kamakhya-Lokmanya Tilak (T) AC Express (Weekly) via Katihar, Mughalsarai, Itarsi 2. Secunderabad-Shalimar AC Express (Weekly) via Vijayawada 3. Bandra (T)- Bhuj AC Express (Tri-Weekly) 4. Delhi Sarai Rohilla-Udhampur AC Express (Tri-Weekly) via Ambala, Jalandhar 5. Coimbatore-Bikaner AC Express (Weekly) via Roha,...
02:34 PM, Mar 14, 2012
New Delhi: Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi is likely to spell out a blue print for upgrading signaling and telecommunication system to prevent accidents in the upcoming Rail Budget despite financial constraints. Besides, the Rail Budget will have proposals for state-of-the-art coach manufacturing units in Karnataka and Gujarat. Railways which has sought Rs 50,000 crore from Finance Ministry as gross budgetary support (GBS), has got only Rs 25,000 crore for the...
06:57 PM, Mar 12, 2012
New Delhi: The Government on Monday said it had launched the monsoon mission programme to help improve forecast of the annual rainfall season, an initiative that would benefit millions of farmers. "The Monsoon Mission programme launched by my Government will enable us to significantly improve monsoon prediction for the benefit of our farmers," President Pratibha Patil said in her address to the joint sitting of Parliament. Patil said over 40...
01:38 PM, Mar 12, 2012
Kolkata: With less than 48 hours to go for the Railway Budget, CNN-IBN gets you voices of people from the two states which have had the maximum number of Railway Ministers - Bihar and West Bengal. Have things changed for the rail passengers? The Indian Railways today is staring at some uncertain times ahead. What about more than 20 million passengers that depend on it every day? CNN-IBN finds out...
07:12 AM, Mar 12, 2012
New Delhi: A week ahead of his maiden budget on March 14, Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi on Friday announced 26 new trains, extended runs of five existing trains, increased the frequency of two trains and introduced five new suburban trains, promised by his party boss Mamata Banerjee last year. Though a high-level panel, headed by Atomic Energy Commission former chairman Anil Kakodkar, advised Trivedi not to announce any new trains...
06:05 PM, Mar 09, 2012
New Delhi: The Railways on Friday announced introduction of 26 new trains including Kathgodam Shatabdi Express, Mumbai-New Delhi AC Duronto and Mumbai-Chandigarh Express as part of the promises made in Rail Budget 2011-12. However, the much sought after AC double decker trains between Delhi-Jaipur and Mumbai-Ahmedabad, announced in the last Rail Budget, are yet to be launched. Besides the AC double decker trains, 18 other trains announced in the 2011-12...
05:44 PM, Mar 09, 2012
