Judgment of the National Green Tribunal, May 27, 2025 in the matter of Sumit Saini Vs Shree Ram Steel Industries & Others. Sumit Saini, resident of village Damla, District Yamuna Nagar, Haryana had sent a letter petition dated May 14, 2022 to the NGT. The application said that around 25 …
TIRUNELVELI: The Indian Railways, which is actively exploring the possibilities of tapping non-conventional energy sources across the country to meet a portion of its ever-growing energy needs and executing a couple of projects in this direction at vantage points, will generate 50 MW electricity from solar energy by installing the …
Wildlife casualities were reported due to train accidents from many locations in India. In this paper an attempt has been made to analyse the reasons for elephant deaths due to accidents involving passenger trains in the railway track between Palghat and Coimbatore (Kerala-Tamil Nadu border).
CHANDIGARH: Union Minister of State for Finance Pawan Bansal, the Congress candidate for the lone Lok Sabha seat from Chandigarh, said on Monday that the day was not far when the City Beautiful would boast of a bullet train passing through it. Addressing a press conference at Congress Bhawan here, …
Siliguri, March 30: The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (DHR) has accepted a proposal from an NGO working in the tourism sector to conserve the century-old Siliguri Town Station, which is part of the heritage buildings serving the toy train. In a letter to the mayor of Siliguri Municipal Corporation Nurul Islam, …
Tree cutting would mean business for the Delhi Government now. While giving its nod to the Northern Railway to cut 3,000 trees to facilitate the expansion of Anand Vihar Railway Station, the Environment Department of Delhi Government has directed the authorities to send the logs to the crematorium of the …
NAVI MUMBAI: A large patch of lush mangroves adjacent to the railway tracks near Vashi station has been chopped indiscriminately. No official complaint has been lodged yet, but the hacked mangroves make for a jarring sight amid the healthy ones, claim commuters. Rishi Aggarwal of the Mangroves Society of India …
Urban transport is an important component of the urban infrastructure system. A good urban transport system will increase productivity, enhance efficiency, ensure competition, and promote urban economy. It will also facilitate social interactions, provide people with accessibility to opportunities, safeguard environment, set directions and pattern of land use development, and …
The High Court has ordered injunction against the laying railway lines through a reserve forest patch in Challakere, Chitradurga taluk, for iron ore mining. Hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) by Animal and Environment Welfare Association, the division bench comprising Chief Justice P D Dinakaran and Justice V G Sabhahit …
As part of its 'Green Initiative', Indian Railway plans to equip its entire fleet of over 1000 AC coaches with eco-friendly refrigerant technology. The Northern Railway (NR), Lucknow division, will get this facility by March-end," confirmed a senior NR official to The Pioneer. Till date, the Indian Railways have been …
A look at the interim budget of the railways against the backdrop of the challenges thrown up in the turnaround of the organisation, the building of an extensive network of freight corridors, and the expansion of commuter transit services.
TIRUCHI: In an innovative attempt at improving sanitation and overcoming infrastructure constraints in railway stations, the Tiruchi Railway Division has taken up a pilot project to try out portable toilets. Two portable toilets, one each for men and women, have been installed at the Srirangam Railway Station. Such toilets were …
PC Lohumi | Shimla The Railway Ministry has sanctioned Rs 350.33 crore for construction of 20 kilometer-long stretch of proposed 63 kilometer Bhanupali-Bilaspur-Bairi broad-gauge railway line, Chief Minister DK Dhumal told Vidhan Sabha on Thursday. Making a suo moto statement in the house, he said that the 63 km railway …
To chug by new rulebook Siliguri, Feb 9: The Darjeeling Himalayan (DHR) will draft a Conservation Management Plan to administer toy train service as part of a move to fulfil a mandatory clause of the Unesco for heritage properties.
Biswajeet Banerjee | Dudhwa On May 31, 2003 at around 7.35 pm, the 191 up Gonda Mailani passenger train ran over an elephant herd near Suheli river railway bridge killing three jumbos. The report suggested that the elephant herd was moving on the left footpath of the Dudhwa-Pallia railway track. …
MUMBAI: The World Bank (WB) and the state government are close to signing an agreement on a $300-million loan for the second phase of the Mumbai Urban Transport Project (MUTP-II), which aims to improve the rail network in the city and suburbs. Hubert Nove-Josserand, WB team leader for the MUTP-II, …
Mumbai: The Mumbai Rail Vikas Corporation (MRVC) has made an advance payment of Rs 9.8 crore to Tata power for producing electricity for the much awaited phase II of the Mumbai Urban Transport Project (MUTP). According to Prakash Rao Vazalwar, chief operations manager, MRVC, of the Rs 13 crore which …
Chandigarh: In times of depleting energy resources, the Railways have chosen the greener way with plans afoot to boost bio-diesel. Jatropha Curcus, a plant from which bio-diesel is extracted, will be cultivated on the vacant land with the Railways. To initiate with, the Delhi-Kanpur and Delhi-Agra sections have been identified …
