Rail Transport

Judgment of the National Green Tribunal regarding plywood factories operating in Yamuna Nagar, Haryana, 27/05/2025

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 …

Land acquisition slows rly projects

Saubhadra Chatterji / New Delhi October 27, 2008, 0:35 IST Although armed with the

For saving Bholu the elephant

Members of PETA recreate a scene outside Rail Bhawan in New Delhi to highlight how elephants are killed in rail accidents. Expressing concern over elephants being killed in train accidents across the country, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) on Thursday used a dummy elephant to recreate a …

Meeting today on land acquisition

KOCHI: District Collector M Beena said that around 300 land owners from Vadakkumbhagam, Mattoor and Chelamattom villages are expected to attend the meeting of the District Level Purchase Committee, formed for leading land acquisition for the Angamaly-Sabari Rail route. The meeting is scheduled to be held on Thursday. The land …

Maya's U-turn, returns Rae Bareli land for rail factory

Taking a U-turn, the Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh today decided to return the land that was earmarked for a rail coach factory in Rae Bareli, the Lok Sabha constituency of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi. This comes a week after the land allotment was cancelled.

Monorail project work to start in Jan

The first monorail corridor in the country will finally see the light of day, but at a cost higher than what was expected. The executive committee of the Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority (MMRDA) gave the green signal to the of 19.5km corridor from Jacob Circle to Chembur. Initially, the …

HC stays UP govt decision on Rae Bareli land

Press Trust Of India / Lucknow October 14, 2008, 1:08 IST A day after the Mayawati government cancelled the land allotment for a railway project in Sonia Gandhi

Land to coach factory in Rae Bareli cancelled

BS Reporter / Lucknow October 13, 2008, 0:05 IST Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati cancelled the land allotted for the Rs 2,200-crore rail coach factory, in Rai Bareli, the parliamentary constituency of Congress president Sonia Gandhi. Sonia Gandhi, along with Railway Minister Lalu Prasad, were scheduled to lay the foundation …

Maya cancels land for rail coach factory in Sonias constituency

Lucknow/New Delhi: The Sonia Gandhi-Mayawati battle for the political turf of Uttar Pradesh flared up months before the general election on Sunday when the BSP government in Lucknow cancelled its order for allotment of 189.25 hectares of gram sabha land for the setting up of a rail coach factory at …

Sabari rail project faces stiff opposition

S. Anil Radhakrishnan THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With land acquisition for the Sabari rail project running into rough weather and the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) terming the project as

Rlys to outsource cleanliness of trains

Stations Will Also Come Under The Plan Lucknow:

With Chenab project scrapped, Rs 450 cr may go waste

The prospect of being held accountable for blowing up Rs 450 crore on an unfeasible project seems to be prompting a powerful section within railways to seek the revival of the four-year old proposal of building the world

Plea for slow trains to save Dudhwa tigers

Atiq Khan LUCKNOW: A 60-km stretch of railway track passing through the Dudhwa Tiger Reserve in Uttar Pradesh has been identified as one that has maximum tiger movement during night. The State Government has suggested that trains slow down on this stretch. In the latest such instance, a male tiger …

Rail tracks a death trap in Bengals wild corridors

Kolkata, September 11 Wildlife experts and forest officials in West Bengal are caught in a strange dilemma when it comes to the growing human-elephant conflict in north Bengal. It is a price they are paying for the success story of elephant conservation, they say. With north Bengal boasting of a …

TRAINS TO TURN spick & span

Dirty Toilets, Coaches To Be Passe Soon TIMES NEWS NETWORK Lucknow: To ensure cleanliness in trains from Lucknow and Varanasi stations, Northern Railways (NR) will now resort to on-board housekeeping services (OBHS). The proposal has bagged a nod from the higher echelons of the railways and NR will soon invite …

Misplaced pride

Successful programme to conserve lions is beginning to implode on itself The Asiatic lion is quite vulnerable.

Tracks hang over river - Rain forces course change

OUR CORRESPONDENT The railway tracks hang over the Kabli Jhora near Madhu Tea Estate. (Anirban Choudhury) Alipurduar, Aug. 28: A section of the railway tracks in Kalchini has been left hanging in the air after the soil beneath it was washed away by the Kabli Jhora, which suddenly changed course …

Govt for selling diesel to railways at market rates

Rakteem Katakey / New Delhi August 26, 2008, 0:52 IST Indian Railways, which are likely to post a cash surplus of Rs 31,000 crore in the current fiscal, should pay market rate for the diesel they consume, as they are one of the largest consumers of subsidised diesel that contributes …

Plan to cut greenhouse gases on track

Raghvendra Rao Indian Railways' plan to use state-of-the-art technology to operate Electrical Multiple Units (EMUs) in the Mumbai suburban area, primarily aimed at reducing greenhouse gases and earning them carbon credits, is now on track with the Railways Ministry finalising the project design and initiating the process of getting approval …

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