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Over 13,000 railway health staff vaccinated against Covid-19: Goyal

Around 13,117 railway health staff have so far been vaccinated against COVID-19, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal informed Parliament on Wednesday.

Over 17,000 FIRs lodged in 2020 for incidents of crime on trains

Railway Minister Piyush Goyal informed Parliament on Wednesday.

E-commerce firms being probed on small traders' complaints: Piyush Goyal

Says complaints against errant firms being looked into; hopes India's offer of TRIPS waiver for Covid vaccine will get WTO nod

Indian ministers switch to local platform Koo as Twitter standoff continues

Koo was launched in July 2020, founded by Aprameya Radhakrishna and Mayank Bidawatka. Radhakrishna had earlier founded TaxiForSure, which was later bought by Ola

India's MSP operations are WTO-compliant: Union Minister Piyush Goyal

Goyal on Tuesday said the minimum support price (MSP) operations being conducted by the country are completely compliant with the rules of the WTO

Govt considering certain clarifications on FDI in e-commerce sector: Goyal

The government is considering to come out with certain clarifications to ensure that the e-commerce sector works in the "true spirit" of the law and rules

Ready to resume farmer talks if they have new proposals: Piyush Goyal

Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Sunday said the Union government was ready to resume talks with the farmers' unions if they (farmers) came out with some new proposals.

All supercritical railway projects to be completed by March 2022: Goyal

Fund allocation and targets planned for next 4 years, says minister

Highest ever allocation for WB in rail budget: Union Minister Piyush Goyal

Poll-bound West Bengal got an allocation of Rs 6,636 crore

Railways on the right track

The bottom line is that it calls for a capital expenditure of Rs 16.74 trillion between 2022 and 2031 on track and terminal infrastructure and rolling stock

Hiking FDI cap in insurance to open up large source of fresh funding: Goyal

Goyal on Monday said that hiking foreign direct investment (FDI) limit to 74 per cent in the insurance sector will open up a large source of fresh funding for the sector

Completion of 200 projects during Covid helped Railways' future plan: Goyal

Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday said the completion of 200 long pending projects during the coronavirus period helped the Railways in planning for the future. Speaking at FICCI's 3rd edition of Smart Railways Conclave on 'Future of Rail Transport', Goyal said that he wanted the Railways to be safe and service-oriented, modern, agile, reliable part of the economy and driven by technology. "Technology will be overarching support system which will ensure that Indian Railways works to a plan for a better future for logistics & transport, both of passenger and goods," he said. "During COVID period, we were able to complete nearly 200 long-pending infrastructure works. The completion of these projects helped us in planning our Railways better for the future," he said. He further said that currently the speed of freight trains is twice the speed that was a year ago and they are now part of the new zero based timetable. "We have taken up 40 smart yards for predictive ...

BSNL-MTNL merger shelved as GoM says not feasible; Cabinet to meet soon

Move to merge may erode BSNL value, say officials

Piyush Goyal reviews progress of Bengaluru suburban railway project

Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Monday held a meeting with senior officials of the Railway Board and the Karnataka government

India ushering in rapid reforms to become $5 trn economy by 2025: Goyal

India is strengthening the entire ecosystem to achieve Prime Minister Narendra Modi's dream of becoming a $5 trillion, Union Minister Piyush Goyal said on Saturday

Talks with farmers opportunity to explain them benefits of agri laws: Goyal

Union Minister Piyush Goyal said he looks positively at the ongoing discussions with farmer unions

Piyush Goyal launches IRCTC's upgraded e-ticketing website

Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday launched an upgraded version of the e-ticketing website of the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), which has personalised features.

IRCTC launches new website and mobile app with personalised features

Predictive suggestions using AI while entering station or passenger name to save time buying tickets, integrated booking for meals and accommodation as some of the add-ons

With revamp of IRCTC website, booking tickets to become easy for passengers

Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal will be launching the revamped website of Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) on Thursday with better features and facilities for passenger

Ministers join farmer leaders to eat langar food at sixth round of talks

Three union ministers joined farm leaders on Wednesday to share langar food arranged by protesting farmers