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
Rail Transport
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Common metro network for NCR cities proposed
Feasibility Study For System, DPRs For 2 Lines Ordered
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New norms for mineral transportation
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has decided that only traders with licence will be allotted rakes to transport minerals by railways. This was decided at a high-level meeting presided over by Chief Secretary TK Mishra here today.
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Clamping down on iron ore movement
Will reworking the wagon investment scheme and converting goods sheds to common user facilities help remove malpractices, is the key question. For the Railways, there is no mechanism to ascertain the source of the cargo. Santanu Sanyal
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Tata Steel hit by Orissa Govt's blanket mining ban order
Ore loading stopped at Joda East mines. Santanu Sanyal The Orissa Government's order banning what it feels
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29 elephants knocked down by trains in last three years
Twenty-nine elephants have been killed after being knocked down by trains across the country since 2007, the Lok Sabha was informed today.
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Minister admits iron-ore lifting
Bhubaneswar, March 9: Orissa mines and industry minister Raghunath Mohanty on Tuesday admitted lifting of minerals worth Rs 150 crores from different railway sidings in the Keonjhar and Sundergarh districts and assured the members of the Orissa Legislative Assembly of stringent actions against culprits involved in the act.
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Rail plans panel for bullet trains
With Indian Railways gearing up to run high-speed trains in the country, the state-run transport monolith is considering setting-up of an independent authority to plan and execute the bullet train projects.
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Tata Motors, Nano vendors not giving up Singur land
Devjyot Ghoshal & Ishita Ayan Dutt / Kolkata March 5, 2010, 1:03 IST Mamata had said a rail factory could be erected there, if the land is available. The land taken by Tata Motors at Singur for the erstwhile Nano car factory, and by the many companies who invested there to be vendors to the project, isn
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Train hits elephants; one dies, another gives birth
Sushanta Talukdar Loving care: The elephant calf that was born after its mother was hit by a train is being cared for in the Deepor Beel Wildlife Sanctuary on the outskirts of Guwahati on Sunday.
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Work on Sikkim rail line begins
The work on construction of a new railway line to connect northern part of West Bengal with Sikkim was launched recently with the ground-breaking ceremony attended by Mr Shiv Kumar, General Manager, and other senior officials of Northeast Frontier Railway and IRCON International Ltd, a subsidiary of the Indian Railways, which is to execute the project.