| T N Ninan: Not a fast track | 04-JUL-09 |
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| If you want to understand what has been happening to the railways, forget Mamata Banerjee’s railway budget, and look at some long-term trends. The length of the routes on which the railways carry goods and people has remained virtually unchanged since 1980; indeed, the carrying capacity of all railway wagons has come down since then by about 10 per cent; the number of locomotives has come down by 25 per cent; and the number of railway employees has dropped 10 per cent. |
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| Other income pushes ACC net up 154% | 15-OCT-05 |
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| The Associated Cement Companies (ACC) has managed to post a better performance in the second quarter of the current financial year owing to profit from sale of its refractory business.
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| E Railway freight earning up | 24-SEP-05 |
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| Eastern Railway (ER) has achieved record performance in the first five months of the current fiscal (April-August 2005).
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| Railway freight earnings up 11% | 22-MAR-05 |
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| Indian Railways loaded 7.6 per cent more freight during April-February 2004-05 compared to same period last year. As a result, its revenue from carrying goods went up by 11.09 per cent to Rs 277.24 |
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| Railways to take on petroleum pipelines | 18-DEC-04 |
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| The Railways is exploring the option of reducing freight rates for transporting diesel and other petroleum products by over 30 per cent. This could deal a blow to pipeline traffic, where the rates are |
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