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 …
No rules to check illegal practices in iron ore-rich Jharkhand Folklore has it that when iron ore explorers first came to Jharkhand, they were surprised to find tribesmen using axes made of iron. When asked about the source of the iron, the tribesmen pointed to a hill and called it …
S. Vydhinathan CHENNAI: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) of the Union government approved the Chennai Metro Rail Project at its meeting in New Delhi on Wednesday. The long-awaited project aims at providing Chennai with a fast, reliable, convenient, efficient, modern and affordable mode of public transport, which could …
KOCHI: Finally, the signal has turned green for the Metro Rail project. With the Government allotting Rs 50 lakh for the office work of the project, the controversial office space provided by the GCDA (Greater Cochin Development Authority) to EMRC (Ernakulam Metro Rail Corporation) will soon see some action. The …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan has said that the State will go ahead with the Kochi Metro Rail Project. Rs 50 lakh has been earmarked to start a Metro Rail office in Kochi based on the recommendations of the Delhi Metro Corporation. The project, modelled on the lines of the …
Tribune News Service Noida, January 18 Noida and Greater Noida are likely to be connected by light rail transport system by the end of this year. The light rail is likely to start from Sector-32, the last station on Metro route in Noida. The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) is …
KOLKATA, Jan. 18: With a view to attract more people to major tourist spots in Hooghly and Bankura, the state government has urged the Centre to install a well-knit railway network connecting these tourist destinations. In a recent meeting held between the state tourism department and Mr Basudeb Acharia, chairman …
BHUBANESWAR: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today reiterated that the Centre should give the State its due share in the next Railway budget for infrastructure development. Alleging that the Centre has been neglecting the State and spending little or nothing on railway infrastructure development, the Chief Minister submitted a proposal worth …
Lucknow: After almost a three month long row between the UP Government and the Union Ministry of Railways over the land for the Rae Bareli Rail coach factory, the ministry has finally signed the lease deed document prepared by the state Government for the land. The ministry had objected to …
Chittaranjan Tembhekar | TNN Mumbai: This train is more than a year late. The Vidarbha Queen has been waiting for about a year-and-a-half to make its inaugural run as a luxury tiger safari train, but it may be shunted back onto the passenger track because of a disagreement between the …
The State Cabinet on Friday gave its approval for extending Metro Rail by 0.6 kms from Jaraganahalli to Puttenahalli at a cost of Rs 681 crore. This also includes three more metro stations at Banashankari, J P Nagar and Puttenahalli, Minister for Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Shobha Karandlaje told …
The two basic elements that critically determine the performance of any mass transit network from both the user and the operator point of view i.e. designing of bus routes and setting frequencies on these routes; have not been sufficiently investigated because of their inherent complexity and the difficulty of implementation. …
The Japanese succeeded in pushing India into having its proposed western freight corridor run on electric. Did it also push Delhi into buying its new generation advanced technology electric locomotives for the Indian Railways? That is the major question doing the rounds in the Rail Bhavan here. That may well …
Dense fog over the Capital played havoc with flight and train schedules for the second day in a row on Tuesday with about 150 flights delayed and over a dozen cancelled. As many as 50 Delhi-bound trains were reportedly running late in what is being dubbed as one of the …
The Northern Railway, which is observing the energy conservation week from December 14 to 21, organised an energy conservation seminar on Saturday. Northern Railway is known as the most energy efficient system. With about 800.54 million units of energy consumed on an average per annum, the utility pays about Rs. …
Mumbai The Mumbai Rail Vikas Corporation (MRVC) has asked the World Bank for a loan of Rs 1,900 crore to carry out work for phase II of the Mumbai Urban Transport Project (MUTP). Phase I of the project is already in its final stage. Phase II of the project comprises …
More than three dozen elephants have been killed after being hit by trains between Siliguri and Alipurduar railway stations in the North East Frontier Railway in the past eight years and yet neither the state government nor the railway board seems to have an answer to stop the rising cases …
Once a killer track, Rajaji Park has seen no elephant deaths in six years, writes prernasinghbindra Over the past six years, over 70 elephants have been killed in train accidents across India
