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Railways mulls inflation-linked user charges at redeveloped stations

The Railway Board will soon come out with norms to make it part of bid conditions

Platform ticket price hiked to maintain social distancing: Railways

People who have confirmed train tickets will be allowed at stations, says Railway Board chairman.

Railways procures drones to protect assets, ensure passenger safety

The purpose of the drone deployment is to provide a force multiplier and aid the deployed security personnel

Mumbai traffic, Railway earnings: What weekly indicators tell about economy

Economic activity that ground to a halt with the shutdown for the coronavirus has now begun to slowly come back

Railways gains lost ground, betters last year's August loading by 7% so far

While on August 12, the railways loaded 3.12 MT of freight, last year on this day, it loaded 2.74 MT

Railways to run 162 special trains towards Konkan ahead of Ganesh festival

The Central Railway is all set to run 162 special trains towards Konkan region for Ganpati festival, the bookings for which will open from August 15

NGT slams MoEF for delay in norms for emission from railway engines

A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice A K Goel said that despite its 2017 direction the matter is still pending and has not been finalised by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF)

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

Pvt trains must maintain 95% punctuality; penalty on delay: Rly draft plan

Private operators also have to pay penalties for misreporting their revenue or in case of train cancellations for reasons attributable to them

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

Freight rates on coal supply: CIL asks for discount, Railways says no

The national transporter has indicated that it has no plans to give concession for distances between 701 to 1400 km

Bombardier, Alstom, 21 others attend meeting on private trains: Railways

The Railways has invited 12 Request for Qualifications for private participation in operation of passenger trains over 109 origin-destination pair of routes

Top Headlines: Murthy's warning on GDP, PVR eyes the bigger picture, & more

Here are the top headlines on Wednesday morning

Indian Railways suspends all regular passenger train services indefinitely

230 Special Trains, which are running at present, will continue to operate

NDLS revamp on the cards, to give Lutyens' Delhi a major facelift

IR is likely to invite requests for quotation (RFQs) this month for the Rs 7,500-crore project

Weekly economic indicators point to a stagnating recovery in activity

Mobility, emission indicators show decline over previous week

Quality over subsidy: Why private trains may have a good run in India

Will these services be able to compete with the heavily subsidised Indian Railways? Here is why the answer, surprisingly, is yes

Indian Railways committed to integrate with GeM portal: Piyush Goyal

Indian Railways is committed to integrate with the government e-marketplace (GeM) portal to move all its procurement to the platform,Union Minister Piyush Goyal said on Sunday.

Kisan Rail to reduce transport cost of perishables by Rs 1,000 a tonne

The scheduled time of a one-way journey is 31 hours and 45 minutes. This travel time is 15 hours less than the time taken in transporting such produce by road

India's first 'Kisan Rail' flagged off from Maharashtra's Deolali

Union minister Narendra Singh Tomar flagged off the country's first 'Kisan Rail' train from Deolali in Nashik to Danapur in Bihar, through video-conferencing