Government okays setting up of railway locomotive factories

September 30th, 2009 Norfolk Southern unveils electric locomotiveALTOONA, Pa. — Rail hauler Norfolk Southern Corp.

September 1st, 2009 MUMBAI - Police on Tuesday resorted to firing in the air and baton charging irate passengers near a Mumbai railway station. According to preliminary television reports, the incident took place at the Nala Sopara Railway Station nin Thane District, as the passengers expressed their anger over the delay and disruption of local train services.

August 25th, 2009 Transients board locomotive, cause emergency stopGLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. — Three transients hopped aboard a locomotive on a train hauling hazardous materials and triggered the brakes, bringing it to a halt in a western Colorado canyon, authorities said.

August 18th, 2009 KOLKATA - A heritage train pulled by a century-old steam engine was recently flagged off in Kolkata to commemorate the trip of the first passenger train from Howrah station 155 years back during the British rule. The first train in Eastern India had run from Howrah station on August 15, 1854.

July 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee Thursday said her ministry would look at providing infrastructure and land for setting up Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). "We might even look at building IITs in the future," Banerjee told the Lok Sabha in a discussion on the railway budget.

July 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Union Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee is likely to reply to the general discussion on rail budget on Thursday in Lok Sabha. The Railway budget is still under discussion in both houses of parliament.

July 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) on Friday welcomed the Railway budget presented by Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee. "This budget is unique in the way inclusivity and overall development has been the focus without losing focus on safety, technology adoption and commercialization while providing opportunities for industry though its capacity expansion programme and setting up infrastructure through PPP mode", said Chandrajit Banerjee, Director General, CII.

July 3rd, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - Kerala got a fair share of the budgetary proposals of Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee tabled in parliament Friday. The small southern state which had long complained of being "neglected" by successive railways ministers got eight new trains, two new railway lines and a railway medical college.

July 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Public sector undertakings (PSUs) under the railway ministry are profitable and have posted a combined net profit of Rs.1,950 crore ($406 million) in 2007-08, Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee said here Friday. Presenting her ministry's budget for the current fiscal in the Lok Sabha, she said: "During 2007-08 all the 10 PSUs under the administrative control of the ministry of railways have performed well and achieved a combined turnover of Rs.11,880 crore and earned a net profit of Rs.1,950 crore." The companies paid a combined dividend of Rs.261 crore to the railways during the year, the minister said.

May 23rd, 2009 MUMBAI - As the century old steam engine gives an adorable toot at the Neral-Matheran track in western Maharashtra, nostalgic memory of the times when these engines were in use come rushing back. In a bid to pay tribute to steam locomotives, Indian railways decided to re-run a heritage engine, which was first used in 1907 when passenger train service was started from Neral to Matheran.

May 19th, 2009 KOLKATA - Texmaco Ltd, a KK Birla group company, has formed a joint venture with United Group of Australia to manufacture hi-tech wagon and locomotive bogie frames, it was announced here Tuesday. 'A joint venture company with United Group, one of Asia's leading end-to-end rail technology solutions provider, has been incorporated, and steps are being discussed to set up a modern facility to make hi-tech wagon and locomotive bogie frames for Indian Railways, the private industry and exports,' Texmaco said in a statement.

May 9th, 2009 PANAJI - A badly dismembered body of a 24-year-old Russian woman was found on a railway track in a Goa village, police said Saturday. Police officials identified the deceased as Elena Sukhnova, who they claim had arrived in Goa on a tourist visa.

April 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Rakesh Chopra, an officer of Indian Railway Service of Engineers (IRSE) of 1971 batch, has taken over as the new Member (Engineering), Railway Board and ex-officio Secretary to the Government of India. He took over from S.K.

March 2nd, 2009 KOLKATA - West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Sunday accused the central government of not being willing to hand over land belonging to closed factories it owned and help the state government start new industries. 'There are hundreds of factories and mills belonging to the government of India in West Bengal which have been closed down.

January 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corp (IRCTC) will open 52 food plazas at stations across the country, an official statement said Monday. The Railway Board has also given approval to IRCTC’s proposal for setting of two ‘Rail Neer’ water plants at Pallur in Chennai and Ambernath in Mumbai, it added.