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Rahul Chandran 11:50 PM | November 11,2009
The review says the railways has added 960km between 1990 and 2007 while China has added 20,000km
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Niranjan Rajadhyaksha 11:03 PM | October 22,2009
With his party making huge inroads into the Shiv Sena’s voter base, the MNS leader’s next big challenge is to chalk out a growth strategy to build on his initial victories
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Liz Mathew 12:10 AM | July 24,2009
The politicians alleged that the home ministry, which is currently reviewing the security for 395 so-called VVIPs in the Capital, is planning to scale down their protective cover
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10:12 PM | July 14,2009
The question that the new minister, Mamata Banerjee, should be addressing is, what next? Instead of answering that, her budget speech was full of populist measures
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Rahul Chandran and K.P. Narayana Kumar 01:15 AM | July 14,2009
Mamata Banerjee said that her ministry would soon bring out a “white paper”, or study, explaining the state of the department’s finances
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Asit Ranjan Mishra, K.P. Narayana Kumar and Rahul Chandran 11:41 PM | July 05,2009
The version that wasn’t used reveals Banerjee was proposing to actively lobby her cabinet colleagues to facilitate an extension of the dedicated freight corridor project, which was to terminate in Sonenagar in Bihar, to Kolkata port
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Sangeeta Singh 12:21 AM | July 04,2009
Mamata Banerjee took it up from where she left off during the election campaign for the 15th Lok Sabha and revived her evocative slogan -- maa, maati, manush -- to underline the socialist underpinnings of the Railway Budget
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Asit Ranjan Mishra 12:05 AM | July 04,2009
The poor showing of the railway finances in 2008-09 forced Banerjee to reduce the targets set by his predecessor Lalu Prasad in the interim railway budget presented in February
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K.P. Narayana Kumar 11:17 PM | July 03,2009
Though he is credited with turning around the railways, officials say many projects are still incomplete
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12:37 AM | July 03,2009
On Friday, when railways minister Mamata Banerjee presents the rail budget, chances are that she will unleash a rash of “happy” measures
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Rahul Chandran 12:30 AM | July 03,2009
Railway officials and analysts agree that with finances already strained by a reduction in freight growth and successive fare cuts announced by Lalu Prasad, Banerjee does not have the leeway to reduce passenger fares much
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K.P. Narayana Kumar 01:15 AM | June 18,2009
The ministry officials indicated that the board was open to the idea of relocating the factories as well
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Rahul Chandran 10:01 PM | May 31,2009
The previous cabinet had, in the run-up to the elections, approved the projects as a railways project rather than inviting the private sector to form joint ventures, as had originally been planned
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PTI 07:12 PM | May 28,2009
She said passenger amenities, safety and security will be her priorities though the railway will give equal focus on the earning side
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Ruhi Tewari and Liz Mathew 12:21 AM | May 17,2009
Boost for Congress, BJP as caste and religious factors fail to sway voters in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar this time
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