Derailment is not very common. Last year less than 1 per cent of train accidents were due to derailments and mere 0.23 per cent of death on tracks occurred due to it.
'There is tension between the zones all the time.'
A billion dollars in renewable energy is huge.
Moving from pricing control to a free market means stiff competition.
FIXES BY THE GOVERNMENT: Energy price fixed, tax issues linger.
The focus is on tapping all resources, even foreign agencies.
India owes Iran around $8.8 billion primarily on account of crude oil imports.
While three operational mines in Chhattisgarh had a capacity of 12 million tonnes (mt), six were yet to start production.
Companies use journalists as conduits.
Japan Plus to facilitate and fast-track investment proposals.
IRCTC has four Rail Neer plants.
The first public-private partnership (PPP) initiative in bottled drinking water has taken shape at Amethi in Uttar Pradesh, with a Rail Neer plant set for commissioning.
The sector hit many roadblocks during 2014, as builders were seen shying away from the projects and investments dried up amid various regulatory, judicial and policy-related bottlenecks.
Using available government data, the team is targeting $30-40 billion worth of iron and steel products that are imported into India.
Under current laws, a company cannot sell mines but only transfer leases when it is acquired by another firm.
Decades of a state-owned monopoly selling coal at a fixed price has taken its toll on production.
The new system will entail a periodic revision in the price of subsidised LPG cylinders so that the subsidy remains fixed.
With the Supreme Court (SC) cancelling captive coal block allocations, Jindal Steel & Power Limited will be the worst-affected company.
It is up to the government to take a decision on this before it starts auctioning.
The Supreme Court order has created a new legal framework for coal mining by ruling that only the Union government and its entities can do it.
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