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
It is a decade since work on the Harihar-Kottur railway line was started. Yet, starting rail services seems to be a distant dream on this key 68-km stretch. The railway line, work on which started in 2001-02, should have been operationalised in 2009. Hurdles created by farmers who are seeking more compensation for the land acquired from them has delayed the project.
A six-member delegation, led by Railway Board member B.N.
Indian Railway
There are 20 monorail systems in Asia; Metro networks are in operation in 178 cities around the world CHENNAI: With the State government recently announcing a proposal to construct a crisscrossing network of monorail corridors in the city that would be 300 km in length, Chennai has been put on the road to having the largest and most extensive monorail network in the world.
<p>The trains built for the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed rail line, which is scheduled to start commercial operations in about a month, are some of the safest in the world, according to a report in the Beijing News on Monday.
Agartala: The alignment of the railway line between Agartala with Akhaura via Gangasagar in Bangladesh would be finalised by an inter ministerial group during a visit here on June 9.
The State government will press the Centre for implementation of the Kochi Metro Rail project on the Chennai or Bangalore model. A high-level conference, convened by Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and attended by E. Sreedharan, Chairman of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC), and Union Minister of State for Food and Consumer Affairs K.V.
By 2016, commuters from Meerut will benefit from a direct link to Sarai Kale Khan, which will help them reach the Capital in less than 70 minutes.
Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) will start the test runs of country