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Railways' earnings dips by over 4%

Passenger earnings were up by 3.85% and goods earnings were down by over 9%

Railway undertakes 40 projects worth Rs 60,000 on cost-sharing with states

An outlay of Rs 4,317 crore has been provided in the Rail Budget for 2016-17

Ministry requests separate funds for railway safety

Minister of State for Railways Rajen Gohain added that of the total of Rs 1,11,683 crore will be funded by the Finance Ministry

Crowdsourcing ideas for improving railways: Govt kickstarts 3-day Rail Vikas Shivir

Exercise will involve all railway employees from gangmen to Railway Board Chairman, cutting across hierarchies

ABB wins order to supply transformers to Indian Railways

As per the order, awarded by Alstom, ABB will supply 1600 underframe traction transformers for the 800 locomotives in the country

Molinari Rail to set up manufacturing unit in India

It will design, manufacture and deliver the auxiliary power units for 1,000 diesel locomotives for Indian Railways

Tales from 'Ramayana', heroic feats to adorn walls of rail stations

28 railway stations will be redeveloped as part of the railways' mega modernisation programme for 400 stations

Four BJP-ruled states agree to allow Railways to purchase power directly

National carrier is also planning to import crude oil directly and refine it at Indian Oil Corporation's Vadodara unit

Railways to take offline route to stream movies

Daily captive audience base of 23 million may lead to market potential of Rs 2,277 crore, says report

Government to take over Shakuntala, only private railway line

Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu has cleared a proposal to take over the narrow gauge line and convert it into broad gauge at an estimated cost of Rs 1,500 crore

Rail travellers to soon face glass ceilings

Basic objective behind such coaches is to promote tourism and woo upscale tourists from both India and abroad, said A K Manocha

Railways should seek innovative financing: Vinod Rai

Railways' massive infrastructure programme includes redevelopment of 408 major station

Railways gets Rs 1656 crore for installing bio-toilets, CCTVs

The railways has set the target of making the entire network as discharge-free zone by September 2019

Now avail train travel insurance at just one paisa

Travel insurance scheme for train passengers will be available at a token price of just 1 paisa instead of 92 paisa

Foreign senior citizens' fare concession discontinued: Railways

According to the ministry, the fare concession will only be granted to senior citizens of Indian nationality, permanently residing in India

Railways to offer 30% discount to bulk customers in loadings

Targeted customers are foodgrain, cement, limestone and steel companies while commodities such as coal and iron ore are absent

End the delay

An executive order is adequate to set up the rail tariff body

Cabinet approves 78-day bonus for railway employees

All non-gazetted railway employees will be eligible for the bonus

78-day wages as bonus for railway employees likely

Despite the financial crunch of about Rs 10,000 cr in the earnings due to slowdown in loadings and drop of passengers in short train journey

Indian Railways fine 15,000 passengers for littering platforms

Indian Railways took several measures to improve passenger services, whilst maintaining cleanliness in stations