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The Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee has floored one and all with a people friendly railway budget for 2009-2010. She has announced introduction of 12 pairs of nonstop...
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- Submitted By: prabirghose | 4 months agoNew Delhi, July 3 (ANI): For the first time in the history, non-stop train service is being introduced in India. The non-stop train service ‘Duronto’ will have AC and non-AC sleepers and will run between select cities throughout the ...
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- News Source: Financial Times | 4 months agoMamata Banerjee, new railways minister, who presented the budget to parliament on Friday, said the government and private partners would transform big terminuses, including Mumbai, Delhi, Calcutta and Bangalore, to raise them to international...
- News Source: The Hindustan Times | 4 months agoBut while railway stocks were up by around 2-4 per cent pre-budget, they closed 5 per cent down. But with neither passenger fares nor freight rates rising and the Pay Commission increasing expenses by Rs 14,600 crore, the Railways’ operating ratio ...
- News Source: Daily News & Analysis | 4 months agoTerming them 'Duronto' (meaning very fast in Bengali) trains, Banerjee announced 12 new point-to-point trains connecting major cities to metros, of which three are for Maharashtra. These include Howrah-Mumbai bi-weekly AC train, Mumbai-Ahmedabad tri-...
- News Source: The Hindustan Times | 4 months agoRailway minister Mamata Banerjee announced the introduction of 12 ‘non-stop’ trains while presenting her third railway budget in Lok Sabha on Friday. Although Banerjee claimed such trains were being initiated “for the first time in our history...
- News Source: Hindu | 4 months agoRailway Minister Mamata Banerjee did a balancing act sticking to her promise of presenting a pro-people Railway budget but at the same time initiated measures which would yield revenue and sustain the commercial viability of the railways. Apart from...
- News Source: The Hindustan Times | 4 months agoWhile tabling the Railway Budget on Friday, Mamata Banerjee said the government has approved the extension of the 1,279-km eastern corridor via Dankuni in West Bengal. The eastern entire corridor would involve an estimated expenditure of Rs 11,859...
- News Source: Daily News & Analysis | 4 months agoAlmost all major projects announced by her are earmarked for places like Lalgarh, Nandigram and Singur in West Bengal," she said in a statement. "South India, particularly Tamil Nadu, has not figured in her scheme of things at all," Jayalalithaa said.
- News Source: India Abroad | 4 months agoWrite a Comment Public sector undertakings under the ministry of railways are profitable and have achieved a combined turnover of Rs 11,880 crore (Rs 118.8 billion) during 2007-08, railway minister Mamata Banerjee [ Images ] said on Friday. "During...
- News Source: India Abroad | 4 months agoPresenting the 2009-10 railway budget in Parliament, she said 12 'Duronto' train services were being introduced -- a venture for the first time in the history of the Indian Railways. Banerjee said this train service will have AC and non-AC sleepers.
- News Source: Androscoggin News | 4 months agoPrime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday hailed railway minister Mamata Banerjee for doing a "competent job" at a short notice, saying the Railway Budget will make train travel an "enjoyable experience". "She (Mamata) has prepared a budget which does...
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