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Ministry lays special emphasis on education

A Railway University is on the anvil

2014-15 Plan outlay highest until now

Budget outlay: 1.77% more than the interim budget

Facelift for stations a priority

High-speed trains, better parcel traffic promised; religious tourism to be promoted

Private funding, FDI to gather steam

PPP: Industry expects private participation to help the Railways become a commercially viable organisation

Sangh Parivar union arm opposes FDI and large-scale privatisation moves

Rly finances tie Gowda's hands

Finances: System still unable to pay its way as it should and invest for the future

Fares still 'too low', earnings estimate revised downwards

Passenger earnings: Revenues from this segment will be 19% more than last year's but still below interim Budget estimate

Regaining lost freight share cause for concern

Freight factor: Initiatives to begin on pricing, online registration

In a first, rail budget gets PM's endorsement

Politics of budget: Former railway minister Kharge says budget lacks new ideas

Gowda repeats previous budget's targets for IRCTC revamp

Budget announced a slew of technology initiatives for Indian Railways, here is a quick look at major ones

SpiceJet drops fares on select flights

50% discount of certain flights with poor loads two-three days prior to travel date

Piramal launches Rs 350-crore realty fund

Fund has already seeded its first transaction, a Rs 50 cr investment in Mumbai and has identified a further pipeline of similar transactions even as fund raising progresses

OVL raises $2.23 billion to refinance Mozambique deal

Said to be the largest deal in the sector from Asia; BoB mops up $250 million

Reliance in World Cup ticket controversy

Rio police say tickets sold to Reliance made their way into black market; firm says it is probing the allegations

Q1 earnings preview: Credit and income growth to moderate for banks

Brokerage houses believe like in earlier quarters, private banks will be on a much better footing than their public sector counterparts

SC tells CBI not to close coal scam cases

Orders appointment of special prosecutor and judge for coal scam trial like 2G scam case

Irda tightens norms on group insurance, immediate annuities

Discounts, loadings more than 30% of premium in group have to be refiled

Jhunjhunwala buys 2% in MCX

The sale took place in form of a bulk deal at the price of Rs 664 per share

Ramesh Abhishek gets extension as FMC chairman

Abhishek was appointed as the FMC chairman on 24 September 2012

TVS Tyres to focus on two-wheeler after-market segment

The company has already established itself as a leader in the OEM segment