The government sought exemption of women drivers from the scheme, saying it may affect the safety and security of women.
Railways has decided to introduce semi high-speed trains in nine sectors which would run at speeds of up to 160 kmph.
A fresh study by the IMF's India office, however, suggests the battle against inflation may already have been won as far back as last month. Official inflation is measured by the change in the price index (Wholesale or Consumer) over that a month ago (year-on-year). What the IMF has done is to measure the monthly change in this index, and then removed the impact of the change that takes place due to seasonal factors such as the crop coming in.
Currently, the travel time between Mumbai and Delhi varies between 16 and 30 hours.
After the record setting collections yesterday, the momentum of the flow of bids for Reliance Power's mega initial share offer slowed on Wednesday, the second day, with subscription levels crossing 14 times, according to the information available on the National Stock Exchange Web site at 8 pm.
The children, who survived the mishap, also said that they tried to draw the driver's attention but he was in a hurry to clear the crossing, police said.
Recent derailments had brought the vulnerability of the national carrier into the limelight. For the railways, the fund allotment of Rs 1 lakh crore towards safety, is a welcome move, says Subrat Nath.
The highest ever average daily construction rate of 130 km has been achieved for rural roads
Switzerland has opened the largest and deepest railway tunnel across the Alps.
After a review of the situation on Monday, the Railway Board has decided to run special trains between Delhi and Jaipur and rescheduled several others.
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh and Agriculture Minister Nanki Ram Kanwar had a providential escape in Korba district as a speeding train came on to the tracks as their convoy was about to cross the railway level crossing.
The bomb was hidden in a motorcycle in the busy area and exploded at about 1745 hours.
Delayed trains coupled with the long pending demand for Diva-CST local service led to a violent rail-roko agitation at Diva railway station near Thane on Friday morning, Government Railway Police said.
The New Year began on a violent note in Mumbai after Central Railway suburban services in Mumbai were disrupted on Friday morning between Diva and Mumbra.
Ministers may come and ministers may go but the attitude of the RB remains the same forever, and it is this group that really calls the shots in Indian Railways, says S Pushpavanam.
The Gotthard Base Tunnel is one of the world's most beautiful engineering marvels.
The accident data would be taken up at the next Kaya Kalp meeting.
Two more persons died at Government Medical College hospital in Nagpur on Saturday, taking the toll in the passenger train collision to 57.
The accident occurred when the van came in the way of the Alipurduar-Siliguri up passenger train at an unmanned level crossing in between Banarhat and Keran stations of the North Frontier Railways.
Even as Indian Railways is gearing up to roll out high-speed passenger services, it seems set to record its worst performance in three years on accidents.
Kandha was run over by a train while trying to save his schoolmates at an unmanned crossing near Amur in Karur district.
The semi-high speed Train 18, which has been recently rechristened Vande Bharat Express, can run up to a maximum speed of 160 kmph and has travel classes like Shatabdi trains but with better facilities. It aims to provide a totally new travel experience to passengers.
Rattled by a series of train accidents, the Railways plan to install a device to prevent collisions, Railway Minister Nitish Kumar said on Wednesday.
Six children were on Thursday killed and eight others injured when a school van was hit by a Varanasi-bound passenger train at an unmanned railway crossing in Mau district.
A S Kiran Kumar, chief of ISRO, said the mission was unsuccessful because the satellite housed within the heat sink could not be injected.
Gowda has also failed to offer clarity on reforming the Railway Board.
The double-line pilot section will be commissioned with an investment of Rs 1,000 crore.
Over two lakh people in Vadodara are facing a flood-like situation as the Vishwamitri River has swelled following incessant rains in catchment areas and inundated residential colonies in its vicinity.
'Its internal economic rot and corrupt political elite have made the resurgent supremacy of the military establishment more invincible,' says Sunil Sethi.
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Authorities alerted people to avoid staying outdoors and L-G ordered to halt all civil construction activities across the city till Sunday.
Softening the demonetisation blow, the Budget for 2017-18 on Wednesday halved the tax to 5 per cent on incomes up to Rs 500,000 but proposed a new surcharge of 10 per cent on incomes between Rs 50 lakh and Rs 1 crore and raised duties on cigarettes and pan masala while stepping up allocations for infrastructure, rural, agriculture and social sectors.
The year 2015 has seen eight accidents because of derailments.
The Bullet train is a childish desire to join an elite club at the cost of 99.9 per cent of rail passengers, says S Pushpavanam.
Outlining the Budget estimates for the coming year, the Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu put the plan size at Rs 1.21 lakh crore.
Railway Budget has not discriminated against any state.
A new leadership is needed to replace the present culture of indifference.
Budget proposals have set four goals to transform Indian Railways.
To Indian Railways, safety is not necessarily a systemic issue but something it attends to only on a case-by-case basis. If accidents were not to happen, the thought of safety would not arise, says Mahesh Vijapurkar
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