Plans are afoot to manufacture 120 coaches with increased axle load of bogies to carry higher load, a senior Railway Ministry official said.
In order to reduce government litigations, the Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday said the GST Council has fixed a monetary limit for filing appeals by the tax department before the various appellate authorities. It has recommended a monetary limit of Rs 20 lakh for GST Appellate Tribunal, Rs 1 crore for the High Court and Rs 2 crore for the Supreme Court for filing of appeals by the department before these legal forums, she said after the 53rd GST Council meeting held in New Delhi.
Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh is India's most tourist friendly railway station. It has an executive lounge, gaming zone, shower facilities, frequently cleaned platforms and effective solid waste management techniques.
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Launching the fleet of 50 such new taxis in Kasba area, West Bengal Transport minister Madan Mitra said the cabs would be beneficial for both drivers and passengers.
The country's first point-to-point, non-stop train, Duronto Express was flagged off from Sealdah station on Friday by Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee as a 'Durga puja' gift to the people.
'We can save 70 patients out of 100, if they reach a hospital well within time.' 'The most crucial aspect is time.'
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'Suddenly I felt a jolt and got thrown off my berth. It took a while before I could understand what had happened,'
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Also on the cards is tweaking the age criteria by extending the concessional fare to those above 70 years, as against the earlier 58 for women and 60 for men, they said.
With polls to elect the 18th Lok Sabha approaching, district poll panels are fixing the rates for expenses as part of the election expenditure monitoring process.
The CNG Santro (XK, non-AC) has been priced at Rs 325,361 (ex-showroom, New Delhi). Prices of its other variants of CNG Santro were not immediately known.
Maruti Udyog is introducing a special non-AC variant of 'Esteem' priced at Rs 3.08 lakh after an approval from finance ministry, which accorded the sedan the status of staff car for government officials.
Tata Motors said on Friday it has bagged the order for supplying 500 non-AC state-of-the-art low-floor CNG buses from Delhi Transport Corporation.
Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu launched a host of passenger amenities and new air-conditioned trains with world class services.
Maruti Udyog Ltd on Thursday launched the non-AC version of Alto priced at Rs 230,000 (ex-showroom, Delhi).
Clean toilets, colour-coded dustbins, comfortable beds, oxygen cylinders and all amenities one can expect in a top class hospital -- the first inmates of the train coaches converted into isolation wards have come away praising Indian Railways for providing a unique solution to care for suspected COVID-19 patients.
The prime ingredient in Nannari Sherbat is sarsaparilla syrup, made from a tropical root or vine,
To check sagging sales of its once bread-and-butter 'M800' model, the country's biggest carmaker Maruti Udyog Ltd on Monday announced a Rs 16,000 price cut, taking it below the Rs 200,000-mark.
Under pressure after the instant success of Maruti's 'Swift', Hyundai Motors on Wednesday launched an offensive by reducing prices of its Santro Xing by over Rs 19,000.
Mumbai bids adieu to its iconic red double-decker buses.
It's all eyes on the consumer durables sector during the festival season after a weak Q1FY24 and Q2FY24 was impacted by an erratic monsoon. Traditionally, this period sees the highest number of purchases. Dealers and manufacturers are complaining about low business-to-consumer (B2C) off-take during the first half.
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The CBI has charged the accused under Indian Penal Code Section 304 part II (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), Section 34 read with 201 (common cause read with destruction of evidence) and 153 of the Railways Act.
Jailed chief of Sahara conglomerate Subrata Roy has once again been provided with an AC conference room with services like Internet and video-conferencing at the Tihar prison as per a Supreme court order to complete negotiations for raising funds for his bail.
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The key driver of this expansion will be not car-hailing but bike-taxi service. The company is willing to partner local players that have a similar offer and would like to come on their platform.
While in a statement issued earlier, the Railways had said that these trains will be fully non-air conditioned, on Wednesday it said that these will have both AC and non-AC classes and fully reserved coaches.
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The railways' first such COVID-19 care centre was deployed at Shakur Basti railway stations in Delhi on May 31. It consisted of 10 coaches with a capacity of 160 beds. The coaches can be used for very mild cases that can be clinically assigned to the coronavirus care centres according to guidelines issued by the health ministry.
The four, including two women, were seated in S-8 and S-9 coaches, which are non-AC, and other passengers claimed that they died due to excessive heat.
Seattle has become the first US city to outlaw caste discrimination after its local council passed a resolution, moved by an Indian-American politician and economist, to add caste to its non-discrimination policy.
Large trade deficit and rupee decline against the US dollar are putting pressure on the CAD, and these steps are likely to have a positive impact on the external sector.
rediffGURU Komal Jethmalani suggests starting off with small and frequent meals.
Kolkata trams -- now in their 150th year -- are the last to survive modernity in Indian cities, writes Ishita Ayan Dutt.
I suggest we build a Vigyan Mandir (Temple of Science) with the ambience of a place of worship, so that it becomes a destination for pilgrims. We should embed on its walls bronze plaques describing each scientist mentioned here along with about a dozen of our ancient mathematicians, recommends Professor Kalyan Singhal, historian of science and technology.
In a letter to all the zonal general managers on Monday, the board has said that initially 5,000 coaches will be converted.
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