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Railway Min agrees to press trains into services for bringing back migrant
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], May 10 (ANI): Railway Minister Piyush Goyal has agreed to press trains into services for bringing back the migrant people belonging to Uttarakhand stranded in Delhi amid lockdown. This comes after Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat requested the Union Minist
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Relief operation underway, inquiry ordered in Aurangabad train accident: P
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 8 (ANI): Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday expressed grief over the death of 16 migrant workers, who were run over early this morning by a goods train in Maharashtra's Aurangabad, and said relief work is underway and an inquiry has been ordered.
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Adhir Chowdhury wrties to Goyal, seeks trains for stranded people from Wes
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 4 (ANI): With government giving some relaxations in the extended lockdown enforced to contain the spread of COVID-19, Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury has written to Railway Minister Piyush Goyal demanding more trains for stranded people including from West Ben
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U'khand CM requests Railway Minister to run 12 special trains to bring bac
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], May 1 (ANI): Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat on Friday requested Railway Minister Piyush Goyal to run 12 special trains on various routes to bring back the people of the state stranded outside Uttarakhand.
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COVID-19: Dinesh Trivedi tweets old picture showing overcrowded railway st
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], Mar 22 (ANI): At a time when the country is battling the coronavirus pandemic, former Railway Minister and Trinamool Congress leader Dinesh Trivedi, posted a five-year-old picture of a crowded railway station on Twitter raising questions over steps being taken
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Banihal to Katra railway link to be completed by 2022: Goyal in Rajya Sabh
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 17 (ANI): Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Tuesday announced that Banihal to Katra railway link in Jammu and Kashmir will be completed by 2022.
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Goyal says safety top priority, pitches for private sector investment in r
Updated : 6 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 13 (ANI): Asserting that Prime Minister Narendra Modi led government was working with speed to transform the railways, Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday said investment of Rs 50 lakh crore was needed for modernisation, improving facilities and boosting i
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Safety top priority, no passenger has died in rail accident since April 1
Updated : 6 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 13 (ANI): Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday said that Narendra Modi government was working with speed, sensitivity and vision to transform the Railways and noted that no passenger had died in rail accident since April 1 last year due to constant focus on
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No proposal to privatise operations of Indian Railways: Goyal
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 7 (ANI): The government has said that there is no proposal to privatise railway operations but there is a proposal to outsource the commercial and onboard services of a few trains and to permit private players to induct modern rakes to run trains on select routes.
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Piyush Goyal to flag off inaugural run of Ahmedabad-Mumbai Tejas Express t
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Ahmedabad (Gujarat) [India], Jan 17 (ANI): Railway Minister Piyush Goyal will flag off the inaugural run of Ahmedabad-Mumbai Tejas Express in Ahmedabad on Friday.
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Train connecting Ujjain and Varanasi will be launched, says Railway Minist
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Indore (Madhya Pradesh) [India], Jan 12 (ANI): Railways Minister Piyush Goyal on Sunday announced that an overnight train connecting Ujjain and Varanasi will be launched.
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Farhan Akhtar, Anurag Kashyap, Swara Bhaskar among B-Town celebs invited f
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Jan 7 (ANI): Many Bollywood celebrities including dissidents like Farhan Akhtar were invited to discuss Citizenship Amendment Act with Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal here on Sunday.
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