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
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
Environmentalists, architects and planners on Friday demanded cancellation of the proposed 'metro rail' route that will affect the Jatiya Sangsad premises. They made the demand at a press conference
SRINAGAR, Sep 9: Chief Secretary, Madhav Lal today directed payment of full compensation to the land owners, whose land is acquired for laying railway lines and related infrastructure on Udhampur- Baramulla
India’s first bullet train could be a Calcutta-Delhi service, covering 1,500km in six hours to make Rajdhani and Duronto look like the laggard locomotives of old. “The project is being discussed and we
Stepping up its emphasis on keeping the surroundings of the three major railway stations in Delhi clean and hygienic, Northern Railway has introduced a number of new measures including personal monitoring by senior officials to ensure attendance and prompt discharge of duties by sanitation workers.
Former students and professors joined the students of Pachaiyappa’s College on Tuesday to voice their unhappiness over the acquiring of land for the proposed construction of a Metro Rail station on the campus. Demanding that the Metro Rail station proposed to be constructed there be relocated to another place, over 400 students staged a protest near the Memorial Hall.
Bombardier Transportation said on Monday that it has received an order for 76 additional Bombardier Movia metro cars, a follow-up on the order for 114 vehicles announced last year, from the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation. The contract is valued at approximately US $120 million and Bombardier is expected to begin delivering the order to DMRC from the third quarter next year, and complete it by early 2013, said an official statement by the company
Railways seeks higher valuation for its 1,300 acres for Bengal project National Thermal Power Corporation’s proposed project at Adra in West Bengal, which it plans to execute with the Railways, has hit
Bangalore: Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda on Friday said the commercial operations of Namma Metro’s Reach-1 (Byappanahalli-MG Road) would begin before September 25 and that the safety certificate, the last hurdle before commissioning, is expected before September 15.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) would extend loans of up to $500 million to Indian Railways to help improve its services along some of the busiest freight and passenger transport routes.
Many rail bridges in Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir are facing threat of being damaged due to illegal quarrying of stone and other building materials from the riverbeds by the mining mafia.