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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Tiger safari train rusts as railways, state lock horns
Chittaranjan Tembhekar | TNN
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Metro Rail extended by 0.6 km
The State Cabinet on Friday gave its approval for extending Metro Rail by 0.6 kms from Jaraganahalli to Puttenahalli at a cost of Rs 681 crore. This also includes three more metro stations at Banashankari, J P Nagar and Puttenahalli, Minister for Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Shobha Karandlaje told reporters.
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Feeder mass transit - Network design using ACO
The two basic elements that critically determine the performance of any mass transit network from both the user and the operator point of view i.e. designing of bus routes and setting frequencies on these routes; have not been sufficiently investigated because of their inherent complexity and the difficulty of implementation. Besides, most the studies have focussed on a sequential approach i.e.
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India to import electric locomotives from Japan
The Japanese succeeded in pushing India into having its proposed western freight corridor run on electric. Did it also push Delhi into buying its new generation advanced technology electric locomotives for the Indian Railways?
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Fog haunts the Capital again
Dense fog over the Capital played havoc with flight and train schedules for the second day in a row on Tuesday with about 150 flights delayed and over a dozen cancelled. As many as 50 Delhi-bound trains were reportedly running late in what is being dubbed as one of the worst fog spells to have gripped the Capital in the past two years.
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Focus on energy conservation
The Northern Railway, which is observing the energy conservation week from December 14 to 21, organised an energy conservation seminar on Saturday. Northern Railway is known as the most energy efficient system. With about 800.54 million units of energy consumed on an average per annum, the utility pays about Rs. 340.39 crore to the power supply authorities.
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Rlys marks energy conservation week
Pune The Pune Division of the Central Railways has been celebrating
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Rly seeks WB help to complete urban transport project
Mumbai The Mumbai Rail Vikas Corporation (MRVC) has asked the World Bank for a loan of Rs 1,900 crore to carry out work for phase II of the Mumbai Urban Transport Project (MUTP). Phase I of the project is already in its final stage.
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Centre, state dither on tusker deaths
More than three dozen elephants have been killed after being hit by trains between Siliguri and Alipurduar railway stations in the North East Frontier Railway in the past eight years and yet neither the state government nor the railway board seems to have an answer to stop the rising cases of jumbo deaths on train tracks.
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Safe Passage
Once a killer track, Rajaji Park has seen no elephant deaths in six years, writes prernasinghbindra