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Thursday, 19 March 2009 13:13 |
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Indian Railways Profit under Lalu Yadav in Last Two Terms
The Indian Railways under lalu prasad yadav have created a new record by earning Rs.294.16 billion ($9.5 billion) from freight during the first eight months of the current fiscal (April-November) year. This is a new record in the history of Indian Railways, the world's largest employer.
Indian Railways has registered a growth of over 10 percent for the same period last fiscal year. Earnings from freight for the corresponding period (April-November)last year were Rs.265.02 billion.
Break-up and other fact and figures about freight in terms of tonnage and different categories are given below:
The break-up of the total earnings for the month of November worked out to Rs.15.15 billion from transporting 28.35 million tonnes of coal, followed by Rs.6.29 billion from 11.78 million tonnes of iron ore, Rs.3.31 billion from carrying 6.49 million tonnes of cement and Rs.2.45 billion from transporting 2.89 million tonnes of petroleum oil and lubricant.
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Written by News Desk
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Thursday, 19 March 2009 13:10 |
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Maoists attack Indian railways to protest killings
Maoist insurgents have blown up a railway track in eastern India few months back, severely disrupting the rail network on the second day of protests over the killing of villagers in a land row. This is not the first of this kind of attack on Indian Railways by maoists as they have done this kind of things before to disrupt peace in the region.
Dozens of trains were held up or cancelled after the guerrilla attack in Bihar's Lakhisarai district, railway officials and police said. Few more steps need to be taken to stop this kind of attacks on Railways and common passenger is the one who suffers in the end.
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Thursday, 19 March 2009 13:07 |
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SriLankan Airlines plans to sell Indian Railways' inventory at Colombo Airport
SriLankan Airlines plans to sell Indian Railways’ inventory to India-bound passengers at Colombo Airport, initially for routes out of Delhi and subsequently for most or all of the 11 destinations that the airline flies to in India, with a current total of 99 flights. The airline, which has check-in counters for its flights at railway stations in Belgium, is currently in discussion with Indian Railways for having a precisely opposite arrangement whereby it will offer passengers the facility to book Indian Railways’ tickets, according to Dimuthu Tennakoon, Manager - Maharashtra and Gujarat, SriLankan Airlines.
He added, “Delhi is the first destination for which this arrangement will be implemented but a similar arrangement for South Indian destinations is also very likely since a lot of our India-bound passengers flying in from Colombo opt for flights to Chennai and Hyderabad and then travel up north by train.”
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