While Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari has been dropped, the panel now has four ministers - Shah, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Commerce and Railway Minister Piyush Goyal and Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri.
Uttam Ghosh on how rail passengers will benefit from the Railway Budget.
'The Railways must provide a rail system that they can be proud of.'
Suresh Prabhu presented the Railway Budget on Thursday.
Suresh Prabhu has announced a slew of measures to improve servcies in trains and railway stations
Former power minister Suresh Prabhu has been chosen to head a task force to pursue this deadline.
Currently, Railways is facing a loss of Rs 34,000 cr in passenger segment and its earnings are falling.
A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi carried out the first revamping of his ministry since he assumed power in May, the new ministers took charge of their portfolios on Monday.
'You can never bring about a change if you only bring in outsiders. Consultants will never feel what changes are necessary and where,' says Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu.
According to the data available on the Reserve Bank of India's website, net workers' remittances in April-June 2018 were $11.5 billion
A promotion promised six years back hasn't come through even now and the sponsors also never quite warmed up to him but Olympic-bound boxer Manoj Kumar says his stubborn streak prevented him from quitting the sport during what seemed like a never-ending dark phase.
The government has increased the budgetary allocation.
However, the countries did not take up the issue of proposed withdrawal of export incentives by the US to Indian exporters under Generalized System of Preference.
Made from Jatropha crop, the fuel has been developed by the CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun.
Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu announced new initiatives.
Sitharaman, who was holding the Commerce portfolio (Independent charge), was on Sunday promoted to the Cabinet rank as was Goyal.
The reshuffle may take place before Modi departs for China to attend the BRICS summit.
430 trains (229 Mail/ Express and 201 passenger) were partially cancelled.
Facing huge financial crunch, the Railways has invited suggestions from the general public to increase its revenue and reduce expenditure ahead of the upcoming Budget Session of Parliament.
Thirty-five Union ministers on Friday huddled in a strategy meeting for an image make-over for the government on a day when Congress began its foot march against the land bill from the symbolical Bhatta Parsaul village.
Union minister Suresh Prabhu on Thursday announced a cash reward of Rs 1.30 crore for 10 members of the Indian women's cricket, who are employed with the Indian Railways.
Big challenge to garner sizeable additional resources.
With May 31 being the last date for filing nomination, the party is set to announce the names of more candidates soon.
Air India will very soon get funds from the government for its day to day operations and will even place orders for a couple of aircraft
Suresh Prabhu must first work to repair damage to railways.
Besides senior citizens, female passengers above 45 years of age and pregnant women are also eligible to avail the enhanced quota.
The commuters started protesting after a level-crossing gate signal caused a delay in suburban services of Central Railway by over 20 minutes early this morning.
Folding ladders would be made available in coaches.
Export trade during August 2018 recorded at $27.84 billion, a positive growth of 19.21 per cent, tweeted Prabhu.
Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu on Thursday presented the Railway Budget.
In a major initiative to bring transparency and speed up decisions on tenders, Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu has dissociated himself from the process and empowered zonal railways and heads of production units to finalise them.
The youth have to turn into entrepreneurs if India's massive demographic dividend is to be taken advantage of: Smriti Irani.
Jet has pulled out flights from Northeast states and also cancelled its Srinagar flight, leading to reduction in capacity.
Jet Airways' engineers, pilots and senior management have not been paid for January and February, besides 87.5 per cent of their December salary is also due.
The government is planning to liberalise the terms and conditions for the sale of the national carrier. The Centre is still pursuing the option of selling the airline's subsidiaries before the airline itself, in order to deal with an outstanding debt of around Rs 27,000 crore.
For the first time, Subramanian said, "the Economic Survey has embraced Big Data, and we mine this data to shed new light on the flow of goods and people within India."
The Major Ports Authority Bill, 2020 was passed through ballot votes in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday with 84 votes in its favour and 44 against it. The Lok Sabha had passed the bill on September 23 last year.
The incident happened during Question Hour when Speaker Sumitra Mahajan took up the issue of 'Go-India Smart Card', an initiative of the railway ministry, for discussion.
In his last Budget, Suresh Prabhu, set an ambitious target for capital expenditure.
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