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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Sabari rail project faces stiff opposition
S. Anil Radhakrishnan THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With land acquisition for the Sabari rail project running into rough weather and the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) terming the project as
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Rlys to outsource cleanliness of trains
Stations Will Also Come Under The Plan Lucknow:
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With Chenab project scrapped, Rs 450 cr may go waste
The prospect of being held accountable for blowing up Rs 450 crore on an unfeasible project seems to be prompting a powerful section within railways to seek the revival of the four-year old proposal o
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Plea for slow trains to save Dudhwa tigers
Atiq Khan LUCKNOW: A 60-km stretch of railway track passing through the Dudhwa Tiger Reserve in Uttar Pradesh has been identified as one that has maximum tiger movement during night. The State Government has suggested that trains slow down on this stretch. In the latest such instance, a male tiger was run over by the Mailani-Gonda passenger train on September 5 near the Manjha Purbi railway halt on this stretch, forcing the government to take up the issue with the Ministry of Railways.
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Rail tracks a death trap in Bengals wild corridors
Kolkata, September 11 Wildlife experts and forest officials in West Bengal are caught in a strange dilemma when it comes to the growing human-elephant conflict in north Bengal. It is a price they are paying for the success story of elephant conservation, they say. With north Bengal boasting of a healthy elephant population of 400 elephants
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TRAINS TO TURN spick & span
Dirty Toilets, Coaches To Be Passe Soon TIMES NEWS NETWORK Lucknow: To ensure cleanliness in trains from Lucknow and Varanasi stations, Northern Railways (NR) will now resort to on-board housekeeping services (OBHS). The proposal has bagged a nod from the higher echelons of the railways and NR will soon invite tenders for the same. The efforts will become visible by the year end.
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Misplaced pride
Successful programme to conserve lions is beginning to implode on itself The Asiatic lion is quite vulnerable.
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Tracks hang over river - Rain forces course change
OUR CORRESPONDENT The railway tracks hang over the Kabli Jhora near Madhu Tea Estate. (Anirban Choudhury) Alipurduar, Aug. 28: A section of the railway tracks in Kalchini has been left hanging in the air after the soil beneath it was washed away by the Kabli Jhora, which suddenly changed course and swallowed the nearly 80-metre-long approach to the bridge that spans the river. In the past 24 hours, the rainfall recorded in Kalchini's Hasimara was 95mm and the downpour has increased water in almost all the rivers.
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Do the locomotion
Rail travel produces more than a third less emissions than road transport
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Govt for selling diesel to railways at market rates
Rakteem Katakey / New Delhi August 26, 2008, 0:52 IST Indian Railways, which are likely to post a cash surplus of Rs 31,000 crore in the current fiscal, should pay market rate for the diesel they consume, as they are one of the largest consumers of subsidised diesel that contributes significantly to the under-realisation losses, state-owned oil companies said in a letter to the petroleum ministry.