The Republican Party of India (RPI) has decided to launch an agitation to voice their demand for the relocation of the cement godown on the Khadki railway station premises. The RPI said the godown was proving a health hazard for the local people and school children.

Mumbai: Chief minister Ashok Chavan has asked the railways to look for other sources of water to meet their daily requirements.

The Central and Western Railway require about 38.52 lakh litres of water of which the former consumes nearly 23.40 lakh litres to wash local train coaches.

AGARTALA, Dec 21: In order to ensure better passenger amenities, Ministry of Railways has announced to make available free quality drinking water round-the-clock at railway stations in the northeastern states through Reverse Osmosis (RO) process. Railway officials here said a similar scheme was introduced in other parts of the country recently and it had yielded a better result.

India may have recently vowed to slash carbon emissions by 20-25 per cent but Mumbai's new electrical suburban trains are already speeding ahead of this target. These local trains curb carbon emissions by 40 per cent and save 30 per cent more electricity than a normal train. The saving is made through the regenerative braking system, which reuses electricity for other trains on the same line.

Former Union minister and BJP MP Maneka Gandhi may claim that the Indian Railways is the "biggest smuggler" of the wildlife and cattle in the country. But Ms Gandhi's allegation was dubbed as unfair by railway minister Mamata Banerjee.

The Left Front government in West Bengal today agreed to Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee

KOLKATA: The West Bengal government has agreed in principle to hand over the site at Singur

DIBYAJYOTI CHAUDHURI

: The state government might be willing to hand over land at Singur to the railway ministry for setting up a coach factory there and Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee might still be adamant with her demand of giving back 400 acres of land to unwilling farmers, but both the sides have forgotten to take into account the sentiments of the farmers.