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Railway privatisation round 1 goes off track amid operational hurdles

The lack of an independent regulator to ensure that the Railways Ministry gives a level-playing field to private- and government-run trains was a deterrent for the players

Railways sets eyes on hydrogen powered trains, invites bids for new tech

Successful trails can mean conversion of all diesel trains to Hydrogen

RITES bags 'highest ever' Rs 4,027-cr order from Ministry of Railways

RITES is currently executing doubling project at Gooty-Dharmavaram and 3rd line project at Annupur-Pendra Road of approximately 140 km, which are near completion.

No proposal yet to restore concessions in ticket fares: Railways minister

Teachers, war widows, awardees, artists, sportspersons, farmers, medical professionals and youths are among the different classes who enjoy concessional travel.

New rail minister orders officials, staffers in office to work in 2 shifts

Hours after taking charge as the new Railways Minister in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's cabinet, Ashwini Vaishnaw ordered officials and staffers in his office to work in two shifts

Oxygen Expresses deliver over 26,281 MT of LMO across country

The Oxygen Expresses have delivered more than 26,281 metric tonnes (MT) of Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO) in more than 1,534 tankers to states across country, the Railways Ministry informed on Sunday.

Surpassed freight loading for FY21 as compared to FY20: Railway official

Despite Covid, on March 11, 2021, Indian Railways achieved cumulative freight loading of 1145.68 million tonnes, which is higher as compared to last year's total cumulative loading

Modified bid challenge method for railway station development soon

Lohia said the railway ministry will continue to keep a check on costs and affordable services at stations even after privatisation

Railways hiked fares for short distances to deter non-essential travel

Hike covers less than 3% of total trains running; fares fixed in passenger trains at unreserved price of mail or express trains for the same distance

Goyal encourages railways officials to give suggestions for optimisation

These suggestions could be about anything that can contribute to better passenger services, safety, revenue generation, freight and business development, increasing the speed or anything

Punjab BJP seeks Railway Minister's intervention to resume train services

A Punjab BJP delegation met Railway Minister Goyal over the suspension of trains due to farmer protests, and sought his intervention to put an end to the "dire circumstances being forced on Punjabis"

Alstom's e-locos approved for freight locomotives to run at 120 kmph

Electric locos allow heavy freight trains to haul 6,000 tonnes at a top speed of 120 kmph and they are expected to increase the average speed by at least 20-25 kmph

BHEL, L&T, Welspun, IRCTC among 15 firms in fray for running private trains

Rail ministry had invited RFQ for private operation of passenger trains over 12 clusters consisting of 140 Origin-Destination pair of routes with launch of 151 modern trains

MoS Railways Suresh Angadi passes away due to coronavirus at AIIMS

Suresh Angadi is also the first sitting minister to have died after testing positive for the infection

Indian Railways' clone train scheme: A friend of waitlisted passengers

These trains will be operated as an alternative to existing trains, when the actual trains will have a large number of waitlisted passengers

More special trains being planned, states being consulted: Rail Ministry

To ease passenger movement in high-demand areas, the Railways will run more special trains apart from the 230 plying currently, for which consent has been sought from state governments

Railways meets solar power developers for zero carbon emission goal

The railways has developed a mega plan for installing solar plants of 20-GW capacity by utilising its vacant land by 2030

Will resume services when Centre gives go-ahead: Kolkata Metro

The Metro Railway here said on Thursday that it will restart services on receiving the go- ahead from the Union Home Ministry and the Railway Ministry.

Railways trusts competition; rules out fare regulator for private trains

Railway board chairman VK Yadav had earlier stated that the ministry is considering setting up a regulatory authority in the future

23 companies attend Railways' meeting for operating private trains

A total of 23 companies, including some PSUs shown interest in operating private trains in the country as they participated in the second pre-application conference for Public-Private Partnership (PPP) in passenger trains project organised by the Ministry of Railways on Wednesday.The participants included Alstom Transport India Limited (Ltd), BEML, Bharat Forge, BHEL, Bombardier Transportation India, CAF India Private Ltd, Gateway Rail, GMR Infrastructure Ltd, Hind Rectifiers Limited, I-Board India Pvt Ltd, IRCTC Limited, ISQ Asia Infrastructure Investments Private Ltd, Jasan Infra Private Ltd, JKB Infrastructure Private Ltd, L & T Infrastructure Development Projects Ltd, Medha, Megha Engineering and Infrastructures Ltd, National Investment and Infrastructure Fund Limited, PSGG Technologies Pvt Ltd, RK Associates & Hoteliers Private Ltd, Siemens Limited, Sterlite Power and Titagarh Wagons Limited.In the meeting, which was held virtually, Railway Board Members along with NITI