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Pragya Singh and Krishnamurthy Ramasubbu 11:28 PM | February 27,2008
Railway minister Lalu Prasad said the new trains are not a populist step, the price cuts for first-class tickets are
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K.P. Narayana Kumar 03:21 AM | February 27,2008
Continuing to shower largesse on passengers, the minister manages to get his reformist agenda through as well
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Political Economics | Partha Mukhopadhyay 03:15 AM | February 27,2008
The focus on passenger amenities in this budget may be driven by electoral compulsions, but that is not the reason I begrudge them
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Ashish Sharma 12:47 AM | February 27,2008
NDA upset over neglect of opposition-ruled states; Left party leaders object to ‘back-door privatization’
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P.R. Sanjai and Tarun Shukla 12:47 AM | February 27,2008
An analyst with a domestic brokerage said the short-haul routes of airlines that can be covered by rail in 5-6 hours will bear the brunt of the railway minister’s proposal of paring fares
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P. Manoj, Utpal Bhaskar and Rahul Chandran 12:33 AM | February 27,2008
This is the first time that the railways has decided to think long-term, instead of relying on a bunch of ad hoc decisions
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Freight Economics | R. Sivadasan 12:33 AM | February 27,2008
The budget saw only few landmark announcements such as the decision to set up one more integral coach factory and multimodal integrated logistics parks
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Jacob P. Koshy 11:18 PM | February 26,2008
The Railway Minister announced in his Railway Budget 2008-09 that the railways would spend Rs4,000 cr to set up green toilets in 36,000 coaches
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Rahul Chandran and Shabana Hussain 11:10 PM | February 26,2008
The 10 land parcels that have received initial bids are in Vizag, New Delhi, Kanpur, Gwalior and Kolkata
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Sangeeta Singh 11:01 PM | February 26,2008
He also extended a 40% discount to incremental traffic in empty-flow direction, or reverse direction, on which railways does not get enough freight traffic
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Sanjiv Shankaran 10:51 PM | February 26,2008
In 2008-09, the railways hopes to award PPP concessions with the aim of attracting investment commitments of about Rs25,000 crore
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Nesil Staney and Ashwin Ramarathinam 10:15 PM | February 26,2008
Large-cap software stocks such as Wipro Ltd and Infosys Technologies Ltd moved up sharply. Infosys gained more than 3%, while Wipro closed with a 1% gain
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PTI 06:59 PM | February 26,2008
Federation of Indian Mineral Industries is satisfied with non-increase in freight charges and doubling of some railway lines; expects wagon availability to improve further
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PTI 05:44 PM | February 26,2008
The party says Railways passengers expenses has been going up as charges for reservation, food etc have been going up
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PTI 04:48 PM | February 26,2008
Indian Railways earns 65% of its revenues from freight movement, with passenger fares contributing a meagre 26%
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