OPPOSING the current land acquisition practice is not just rhetoric for Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee. To bring her ministry in line with her political position on the issue, it has been decided that there would be no forceful acquisition of land for railways. She has also promised to undertake a comprehensive review of the railways

The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council decided on Thursday to revive the Karachi Circular Railway as a modern commuter system at a cost of Rs128.5 billion.

The committee suggested dualisation of railway tracks with the provision of two dedicated tracks along the main lines from Karachi City station to Drigh Road.

Engineers in Kochi are giving final touches to the 4.62-km-long rail bridge connecting the mainland to the proposed international container transshipment terminal on Vallarpadam island across the Vembanad lake in Ernakulam district of Kerala.

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Asserting that the Konkan Railway Corporation is very serious in putting the long-delayed Sky Bus project on the right track, KRC Managing Director Anuragh Mishra has said the KRC will sign a MoU with Research and Development Organisation of the Indian Railways next week.

The forest in Purulia

Sharmistha Mukherjee / New Delhi August 11, 2009, 1:20 IST

Indian Railways

In a bid to put counter pressure on Railway minister Miss Mamata Banerjee for her alternative proposal for Singur, the state government now wants unutilised land belonging to the Railways for setting up of industrial parks for micro and small-scale industries.

Having driven Tata Motors away from Singur, Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday unveiled her own industrial plan for the abandoned site in Hooghly district. It won

Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee today said her ministry was prepared to set up a rail coach factory at Singur, provided 600 acres of the 1,000-acre land earlier acquired by the Tatas to set up the