Lucknow | 3 days ago
UP gears up for Kumbh Mela 2013
Lucknow, May 14 - Gearing up for the Kumbh Mela being held in Allahabad next year, the Uttar Pradesh government has said that preparations will be reviewed every fortnight.At a meeting presided over by Chief Secretary Jawwed Usmani here Sunday, departments overseeing preparations for the religious congregation were directed to nominate nodal officers and pass on their personal details such as tele ... read more

New Delhi | 19 days ago
Railways to deploy software to track train movement
New Delhi, April 27 - The Indian Railways Friday said it plans to deploy over the next 18 months a software to track the movement of all trains over its network.This will happen through SIMRAN -, for which a pilot project is going on in 18 pairs of important trains.This system provides precise location of the trains through interactive mode on mobile phones and laptops. It eliminates the need for ... read more

New Delhi | 20 days ago
Railway job racket busted, 5 arrested
New Delhi, April 26 - Five people, including a former air force corporal, were arrested for duping several youngsters on pretext of providing them job in Indian Railways, police said Thursday.The accused have been identified as Narender Kumar -, the leader of the gang, his wife Renu Yadav -, Nakshe Lal Mishra -, Nand Kishore - and Manish -. Kumar, who quit the air force in 1992, was arrested on Ap ... read more

Mumbai | 21 days ago
S&P lowers outlook on SBI, ICICI and HDFC Bank
Mumbai, April 25 - Global ratings agency Standard & Poor's Wednesday cut its outlook to negative from stable on 11 financial institutions, including the top three banks State Bank of India, ICICI Bank and HDFC Bank, to negative from stable, but kept their ratings unchanged.The country's largest lender State Bank of India's ratings is kept unchanged at BBB- with outlook being lowered to negative fr ... read more

New Delhi | 22 days ago
France's Thales eyes big in India's metro, rail projects
New Delhi, April 25 - French defence, aerospace and technology giant Thales sees a huge opportunity in India's public transport sector and plans to bid for upcoming metro and rail projects across the country, either independently or as a consortium.The company, which set up the ticketing system for Delhi metro, is also looking to upgrade the communication and security systems of Indian Railways.We ... read more

New Delhi | 28 days ago
Top Delhi Metro official resigns
New Delhi, April 19 - A top official of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation - overseeing the construction of key Phase-III projects has resigned from his post, it was announced Thursday.Kumar Keshav, director -, resigned on personal grounds. His resignation has been accepted by the board of directors in a meeting held Thursday, a DMRC official said.Kumar Keshav joined DMRC in 2002 on deputation from ... read more

New Delhi | 1 month ago
India, Germany for greater railway cooperation
New Delhi, April 10 - The Indian Railways Tuesday said it will shortly finalise a fresh Memorandum of Understanding - with its German counterpart on increasing their cooperation.India and Germany have a strong cooperation in the field of railway transport, said Union Railways Minister Mukul Roy after meeting a high-level delegation led by German Federal Minister of Transport, Building and Urban De ... read more

New Delhi | 1 month ago
Railways to run extra trains for summer rush
New Delhi, March 30 - In order to cope with the summer season - rush of passenger traffic, the Indian Railways Friday said it has planned over 5,600 trips of special trains on 44 popular routes.According to officials, out of the summer specials planned to connect destinations like New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Jammu, Jaipur, Guwahati, Lucknow and Pune, 14 trains are unreserved, ... read more

New Delhi | 1 month ago
Railway employees seek PM's help
New Delhi, March 28 - Thousands of railway employees Wednesday marched to the heart of the capital to urge Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to increase the budgetary support to the Indian Railways.The march, under the banner of All India Railwaymen's Federation, culminated in a meeting on Parliament Street. Addressing the rally, federation general secretary Shiva Gopal Mishra criticised the governmen ... read more

New Delhi | 1 month ago
Quiet freight hike to pull railways out of red
New Delhi, March 19 - His fare hike proposals may have turned controversial for political reasons, but what has gone largely unnoticed is Dinesh Trivedi's quiet move to increase freight rates by 20 percent on March 6, days before he presented the rail budget as railway minister.According to sources in the railway ministry, the hike in freight rates will fetch an additional Rs.16,000-17,000 crore a ... read more