BS Reporter / Lucknow October 13, 2008, 0:05 IST

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati cancelled the land allotted for the Rs 2,200-crore rail coach factory, in Rai Bareli, the parliamentary constituency of Congress president Sonia Gandhi.

Lucknow/New Delhi: The Sonia Gandhi-Mayawati battle for the political turf of Uttar Pradesh flared up months before the general election on Sunday when the BSP government in Lucknow cancelled its order for allotment of 189.25 hectares of gram sabha land for the setting up of a rail coach factory at Lalganj in Sonia Gandhi

S. Anil Radhakrishnan

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With land acquisition for the Sabari rail project running into rough weather and the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) terming the project as

Stations Will Also Come Under The Plan

Lucknow:

The prospect of being held accountable for blowing up Rs 450 crore on an unfeasible project seems to be prompting a powerful section within railways to seek the revival of the four-year old proposal o

Atiq Khan

LUCKNOW: A 60-km stretch of railway track passing through the Dudhwa Tiger Reserve in Uttar Pradesh has been identified as one that has maximum tiger movement during night. The State Government has suggested that trains slow down on this stretch.

In the latest such instance, a male tiger was run over by the Mailani-Gonda passenger train on September 5 near the Manjha Purbi railway halt on this stretch, forcing the government to take up the issue with the Ministry of Railways.

Kolkata, September 11 Wildlife experts and forest officials in West Bengal are caught in a strange dilemma when it comes to the growing human-elephant conflict in north Bengal. It is a price they are paying for the success story of elephant conservation, they say. With north Bengal boasting of a healthy elephant population of 400 elephants

Dirty Toilets, Coaches To Be Passe Soon

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Lucknow: To ensure cleanliness in trains from Lucknow and Varanasi stations, Northern Railways (NR) will now resort to on-board housekeeping services (OBHS). The proposal has bagged a nod from the higher echelons of the railways and NR will soon invite tenders for the same. The efforts will become visible by the year end.

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The railway tracks hang over the Kabli Jhora near Madhu Tea Estate. (Anirban Choudhury)
Alipurduar, Aug. 28: A section of the railway tracks in Kalchini has been left hanging in the air after the soil beneath it was washed away by the Kabli Jhora, which suddenly changed course and swallowed the nearly 80-metre-long approach to the bridge that spans the river.

In the past 24 hours, the rainfall recorded in Kalchini's Hasimara was 95mm and the downpour has increased water in almost all the rivers.