Allegations of forcible land acquisition false: Railways
February 3rd, 2011 - 12:27 am ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Feb 2 (IANS) The allegations of forcible land acquisition for several railway projects are "distorted and devoid of truth", the railway ministry Wednesday said in a release."The factual positions on ... Read more...
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Compare CPI-M, Trinamool’s development record: Mamata
January 30th, 2011 - 1:21 am ICT by IANS
Cooch Behar/Siliguri, (West Bengal) Jan 29 (IANS) Railway Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Saturday said West Bengal's ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) should compare what they had done ... Read more...
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CPI-M has done nothing for north Bengal: Mamata
January 29th, 2011 - 8:24 pm ICT by IANS
Cooch Behar/Siliguri (West Bengal), Jan 29 (IANS) Railway Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Saturday said the CPI-M should compare what they had done for implementation of railway projects in ... Read more...
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Trains to soon connect Cooch Behar, Jaipur: Mamata
January 29th, 2011 - 6:11 pm ICT by IANS
Cooch Behar (West Bengal), Jan 29 (IANS) Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee Saturday said a new train connecting Cooch Behar and Jaipur in Rajasthan will be announced shortly to honour Gayatri Devi, ... Read more...
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No objection to talking to Mamata: Tripura chief minister
January 17th, 2011 - 12:49 am ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Jan 16 (IANS) His party may be at loggerheads with Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee in Left-ruled West Bengal, but Tripura's communist Chief Minister Manik Sarkar Sunday said he was open ... Read more...
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Railways will not forcibly acquire land, says Mamata
December 21st, 2010 - 8:37 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Dec 21 (IANS) Union Railway Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Tuesday assured farmers that the railways will not forcibly acquire any land for its projects in West Bengal."We ... Read more...
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Buddhadeb slams Congress-led UPA for price rise
November 21st, 2010 - 9:43 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Nov 21 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Sunday attacked the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government at the centre for being unable to control the prices of essential commodities."The ... Read more...
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CPI parliamentarian in all praise for Mamata
October 6th, 2010 - 10:37 pm ICT by IANS
Kharagpur (West Bengal) Oct 6 (IANS) Communist Party of India (CPI) parliamentarian from Midnapore Prabodh Panda here Wednesday praised Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee for her development works and assured all kind ... Read more...
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Krishna likely to open strategic Jaffna, Hambantota consulates in Oct end
October 5th, 2010 - 8:25 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Oct. 5 (ANI): External Affairs Minister S M Krishna is likely to inaugurate two Indian consulates in Hambantota and Jaffna during his four-day visit to Sri Lanka in the last ... Read more...
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West Bengal government has ignored Darjeeling development: Mamata
October 1st, 2010 - 10:22 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Oct 1 (IANS) Countering allegations by West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee that the Trinamool Congress was creating trouble in the state, including in the Darjeeling hills, party supremo Mamata ... Read more...
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Mamata begins Darjeeling tour, meets political parties
September 26th, 2010 - 11:34 pm ICT by IANS
Darjeeling, Sep 26 (IANS) Union Railway Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, who arrived here on a two-day visit Sunday, met leaders of all the political parties in West Bengal's ... Read more...
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Mamata keeps Buddhadeb away from Metro project function
September 22nd, 2010 - 10:46 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Sep 22 (IANS) Railway Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Wednesday kept West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee out of the list of invitees as President Pratibha Patil laid ... Read more...
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No one is top boss in Trinamool: Mamata
September 17th, 2010 - 12:34 am ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Sep 16 (IANS) Taking exception to a suggestion that there was no second rung of leadership in her party, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Thursday said such questions were only ... Read more...
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New policy to focus on public transport
August 12th, 2010 - 10:30 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 12 (IANS) Formulation of a national urban transport policy, financing of buses and a bus rapid transit system project are some of the steps taken by the central government ... Read more...
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Jharkhand demands hike in coal royalty
July 24th, 2010 - 11:03 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 24 (IANS) Jharkhand Governor M.O.H. Farook Saturday demanded a hike in coal royalty at a meeting here of the National Development Council (NDC), the country's top policy forum.
"Jharkhand is ... Read more...
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Banerjee rules out privatisation of Indian Railways
June 23rd, 2010 - 11:00 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, June 23 (ANI): Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday reiterated that there would be no privatization of Indian Railways.Addressing the Parliamentary Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Railways, Banerjee ... Read more...
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No privatization of railways, says Mamata
June 23rd, 2010 - 10:59 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 23 (IANS) Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee Wednesday said there was no likelihood of privatizing Indian Railways, even as she admitted that several projects are not being implemented for ... Read more...
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India convey Sri Lanka its willingness to open consulate in Jafna
March 8th, 2010 - 11:05 pm ICT by ANI
Colombo, Mar 8 (ANI): Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao has conveyed to Sri Lankan Pesident Mahinda Rajpaksa about India's willingness to open the Consulate General Mission at Jafna.She expressed India's view during ... Read more...
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India for quicker resettlement of Tamils
March 8th, 2010 - 5:42 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) India Monday said it has urged Sri Lanka to quicken the resettlement of Tamils displaced by war and pledged aid for their housing projects as Foreign Secretary ... Read more...
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Jharkhand presents supplementary budget of Rs.1,875.18 crore
February 26th, 2010 - 5:40 pm ICT by IANS
Ranchi, Feb 26 (IANS) Jharkhand Deputy Chief Minister Raghubar Das Friday presented second supplementary budget of Rs.1,875.18 crore in the assembly for the current financial year.
The supplementary budget includes Rs.1,212.18 for non-plan ... Read more...
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Railway ministers should represent country, not state: Badal
February 25th, 2010 - 8:07 pm ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, Feb 25 (IANS) Lashing out at successive railway ministers for favouring their home states in allocation of railway projects and trains, Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal Thursday said that ... Read more...
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Railway budget is curate’s egg, says Jayalalithaa
February 24th, 2010 - 8:52 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Feb 24 (IANS) AIADMK chief J. Jayalalithaa Wednesday termed Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee's budget as the proverbial curate's egg - good in parts and bad in parts - but also ... Read more...
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Railway budget 2010 highlights
February 24th, 2010 - 3:31 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) Highlights of the 2010-11 railway budget presented by Mamata Banerjee in parliament Wednesday:
-- No increase in passenger fares
-- Rs.100 reduction in freight per wagon for ... Read more...
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Complete railway projects on priority basis: Dhumal
February 22nd, 2010 - 5:39 pm ICT by IANS
Shimla, Feb 22 (IANS) Railway projects in Himachal Pradesh should be completed on a priority basis, state Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal said Monday.
"We again request the railway ministry to complete the ... Read more...
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‘Railway projects worth Rs.1,288 crore in Uttar Pradesh’
January 28th, 2010 - 10:08 pm ICT by IANS
Lucknow, Jan 28 (IANS) The Railways Ministry has allocated a sum of Rs.1,288 crore towards various projects in different parts of Uttar Pradesh, Minister of State for Railways K.H. Muniyappa said Thursday. ... Read more...
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Jayalalithaa asks Mamata for more railway projects
January 28th, 2010 - 1:01 am ICT by IANS
Chennai, Jan 27 (IANS) With the railway budget to be presented next month in parliament, AIADMK general secretary J. Jayalalithaa has written to Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee for more projects ... Read more...
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Bangladesh, India to sign three agreements and a MoU during Hasina’s visit
January 8th, 2010 - 10:10 pm ICT by ANI
By Sandhya SharmaNew Delhi, Jan.8 (ANI): Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will arrive in India on an official visit starting January 10 to 13. It will be Hasina's first visit to ... Read more...
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Mamata offers farmers railway jobs for lands taken
January 4th, 2010 - 10:25 pm ICT by IANS
Amta (West Bengal), Jan 4 (IANS) A member each of the families giving their lands or homesteads for railway projects would be given jobs in addition to compensation, Railway Minister ... Read more...
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Banerjee kicks off two railway projects in West Bengal
December 27th, 2009 - 12:03 am ICT by IANS
Dankuni (West Bengal), Dec 26 (IANS) Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee Saturday laid the foundation stones of two factories for manufacturing electric and diesel engine components in this West Bengal town.
The ... Read more...
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Hike in Railway fares not a solution, says Mamata Banerjee
December 19th, 2009 - 3:37 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Dec 19 (ANI): Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee tabled a "White Paper" in Parliament on Friday, giving details of the financial position of the Railways which indicated the difference between ... Read more...
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Railways have multiple options for land acquisition: Banerjee
December 15th, 2009 - 9:41 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 15 (IANS) Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee Tuesday told the Lok Sabha, the lower house of parliament, that there were multiple options for land acquisition that would be kept ... Read more...
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Railways to run 2,872 special trains for summer rush
December 8th, 2009 - 8:57 pm ICT by IANS
Bangalore, Dec 8 (IANS) The Indian Railways will run 2,872 special trains across the country during summer to clear the extra rush of passengers during the holiday season, Railway Minister Mamata ... Read more...
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Bengal by-polls: Beleaguered Left faces another challenge
November 6th, 2009 - 3:38 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Nov 6 (IANS) With the Left fast losing its grip over West Bengal under the assault of the Trinamool Congress-led opposition, the by-polls to 10 assembly seats Saturday will be ... Read more...
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Tracking Jammu and Kashmir’s rail history
October 28th, 2009 - 8:02 pm ICT by IANS
Srinagar, Oct 28 (IANS) When Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday flagged off a train bedecked with flowers on the 18-km stretch between Qazigund and Anantnag in the Kashmir Valley, he actualised ... Read more...
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PM for ‘practical’ solution to Kashmir issue (Lead)
October 25th, 2009 - 7:22 pm ICT by IANS
Hua Hin (Thailand), Oct 25 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Sunday he favoured "practical, pragmatic solutions" to the Jammu and Kashmir problem and a dialogue with the separatist Hurriyat Conference.
Stating ... Read more...
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