Coal: a heavy burden on the Indian railways
India’s power demand is rising more quickly than its renewable capacity additions, accelerating plans to mine, transport and burn up to 65% more thermal coal for electricity generation by 2030. Several
Rail Transport
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Luxury train attracts travel industry
Royal Wheels specially brought to Jaipur B2B session for State tourism ends optimistically
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Army wants rail link to Ladakh
As reported by this newspaper, the Prime Minister
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Government should pay special attention to develop Railways
Pakistan Railway (PR), an important mode of transportation in the farthest corners of the country, has fallen victim to the ill planning and apathy of the concerned circles. Bad infrastructure, dilapidated carriages, lack of facilities at railway stations and increasing fares have forced the passengers to switch over to other means of journey.
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Pull up the railway from morass
JUST how neglected the Bangladesh Railway (BR) has been since the country's independence is driven home by some eye-opening statistics cited at a roundtable recently. Not only has it lost over 40 percent of its land resource to illegal occupation, the size of its inventory with which it had originally begun in 1971 has also shrunk terribly over time.
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40pc railway land occupied illegally Roundtable told
Over 40 percent of the land belonging to Bangladesh Railway (BR) has been encroached over the years, proper use of which could make the railway a very profitable sector, speakers told a roundtable yesterday. The railway sector has the potential to be developed as the cheapest and most convenient mass transport system of the country, they said.
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Obama Seeks High-Speed Rail System Across U.S.
President Obama on Thursday highlighted his ambition for the development of high-speed passenger rail lines in at least 10 regions, expressing confidence in the future of train travel even as he acknowledged that the American rail network, compared with the rest of the world
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Govt to build new rail track on Dhaka-Ctg route soon
The government is going to build a new rail track from Laksam to Chinki Astana on Dhaka-Chittagong route, said a PID handout. The new rail track, a part of the second rail track on Dhaka-Chittagong route, would be 61 kilometres long. Financed by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), the project is scheduled to be finished within four years.
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Tourist trains to ply round the year
JAIPUR: The Rajasthan Tourism Development Corporation is planning to operate the
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Railways fuel stock will exhaust by month-end
Pakistan Railways fuel stock will exhaust by end of the current month and it will be facing problem in plying trains countrywide on all routes due to financial shhortfall to pay the suppliers. Sources said to the Business Recorder that Pakistan Railways operation might suffer if its stocks dropped.
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ICF launches first wind mill project
The wind power plant is expected to generate 25.9 million units annually, which will offset the total annual energy requirement of 25 million units of ICF