Freight trains on newly inaugurated section of Eastern DFC achieve 90 kmph top speedSince December 29, 2020, when PM inaugurated the DFC section, the railways have operated over 50 trains on the route.
04 Jan, 2021, 06.07 PM IST
814 hectares of rail land under encroachment across country: Railway ministerThe Supreme Court, in its order dated August 31 issued in the context of piling up of the waste/garbage beside the railway tracks in Delhi,...
16 Sep, 2020, 07.33 PM IST
Remove dedicated freight corridor bottlenecks, PM closely monitoring progress: Railway Minister to statesThe minister has specially urged the Uttar Pradesh chief minister's personal intervention to resolve the bottlenecks in his state as over 1...
29 Aug, 2020, 06.44 PM IST
Speed up freight corridor work, says Piyush GoyalDuring the review meeting, it was decided that work of all contractors will be strictly monitored. Resolution of all issues, including coor...
25 Aug, 2020, 12.23 AM IST
Railway's largest current infra project to be delayed by 6 months due to COVID-19"We suffered a setback due to the coronavirus pandemic which led to issues with labour mobilisation. The new deadline is June 2022," Yadav ...
20 Aug, 2020, 09.15 PM IST
44,000 crore freight corridor on east coast in the worksThe corridor, which is expected to carry about 200 million tonnes of freight per annum, is likely to be announced in the budget proposal fo...
16 Aug, 2018, 11.52 PM IST
Larsen & Toubro arm bags Rs 2,864 crore order for Eastern Dedicated Freight CorridorL&T said this project will be funded by World Bank (WB) and is a part of the 1,856 km Eastern Corridor proposed between Ludhiana (Punjab) a...
16 Mar, 2018, 01.14 PM IST
GMR consortium bags Rs 2,280 crore Eastern Freight Corridor projectEarlier in April 2016, GMR led consortium emerged as the successful bidder amongst a total of six bidders for the project through an intern...
07 Jun, 2016, 06.37 PM IST
Rail locomotives from Japan stuck on pricing frontThe railways was supposed to award the contracts for loco procurement by December end, last year but the pricing issue has delayed it furth...
27 Jan, 2016, 03.04 PM IST
Railways: Procurement process for high-powered locos gets tractionThe railways has kickstarted the process to award contracts for the same with the projects to involve its existing Dankuni unit and the pro...
03 Jun, 2015, 09.08 PM IST
China-Pakistan rail link should be through Islamabad-Karachi: ExpertsChinese experts waded into the debate by suggesting that the proposed railway route be built through Karachi and Islamabad for commercial v...
24 Apr, 2015, 10.27 PM IST
Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal, Rail Minister to lay foundation of logistics hubPunjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu would jointly lay the foundation stone of Multi-Modal Logisti...
06 Jan, 2015, 05.01 PM IST
- Railways signs MoU with DFCC
The MoU was signed by Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation (DFCC) and Ministry of Railways on March 15, officials said today.
18 Mar, 2013, 10.05 PM IST
Economic Survey 2013: Government plans five more rail freight corridorsGovernment plans to build five new dedicated freight corridors connecting cities in different parts of the country to enhance Railways' tra...
27 Feb, 2013, 05.39 PM IST
World Bank reviews progress of Eastern Freight CorridorA 17 member World Bank’s implementation mission reviewed the progress of Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) in week-long visit from 1...
19 Jun, 2012, 02.30 PM IST
- Mamata takes charge of Railways
For Mamata Banerjee home is clearly where the heart is. On Tuesday, she formally took charge of the railway ministry in Kolkata in her inim...
27 May, 2009, 02.52 PM IST
- PM lays foundation stone for western freight corridor
Manmohan Singh on Thursday laid the foundation stone for the Rs 11,446-crore Western Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) in Mumbai, simultaneo...
06 Oct, 2006, 01.58 AM IST