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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Double stack container train set to start between Mundra Port-NCR
The first double stack container train between the Mundra Port and National Capital Region (NCR) is slated to start off Friday. Till now, double stack container train movements were happening between Mundra
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Gulf rail network to be operational by 2018
The ambitious $10-billion project to connect Gulf nations through a modern rail network, stretching over 2,000 km, is expected to become operational by 2018, with authorities working to ensure that construction
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Bangalore's ‘Namma Metro’ project inaugurated
Almost four years after work on the Metro construction in Bangalore began, the Metro rail today officially chugged out of the Mahatma Gandhi Road station towards destination Bayappanhalli. The first
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Draft mineral transport plan soon
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has decided to initiate steps to ease the problem of traffic congestion and movement difficulties caused by heavy pressure of mineral-carrying trucks on roads. A transport
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Study feasibility of elevated corridor: State to Railways
While the state government has accorded in-principle approval to the Railways’ ambitious project for an underground corridor from Oval Maidan to Mahalaxmi station, it has also asked the Railways to simultaneously
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Bangalore's ‘Namma Metro' to roll out on October 20
The long-awaited Rs 6,000 crore Bangalore's Metro Rail or ‘Namma Metro' will formally be inaugurated on October 20. According to Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation (BMRCL), the Union Minister for Urban
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Land acquisition mars rail project in Tripura
AGARTALA: The impasse over land acquisition has emerged a major bottleneck in laying rail track in between Agartala and Udaipur with the state government failing to convince the landowners in Bishalgarh
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South Western Railways the major loser in the mining scam
The exposure of illegal mining scams in Karnataka and Goa and Karnataka’s ban on transportation of iron ore has had a huge impact on the railways. The South Western Railway (SWR) is one of the major losers,
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Water in fuel tanks, Rlys derailed
New Delhi: The oil mafia has struck at the IOC depot at Shakurbasti causing heavy losses to the Northern Railways. The gang siphoned off thousands of litres of kerosene and diesel from tanks at the Indian
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Train Hits Mitigation Project to prevent elephant deaths
The Department of Wildlife Conservation is cooperating strategically with Sri Lanka Railways to prevent increasing elephant deaths on railway tracks before it can manifest into a elephant-train conflict