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TOKYO, March 29 (Reuters) – Japan’s Hitachi Ltd (6501.T) said on Monday it aims for 350 billion yen ($3.8 billion) of sales in railway-related business in the year starting April 2015.
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The electronics conglomerate said it posted 176.7 billion yen in sales from the business in the year that ended in March 2009. (Reporting by Kiyoshi Takenaka)
Broken Hill police are reminding locals that it is an offence to be on railway owned land, and if caught an on-the-spot fine of $400 could be issued.
Last weekend, police officers chased a couple of men under the Crystal Street overpass, after three cars, including a police vehicle, were hit by rocks that were thrown from the rail line onto the road.
The maximum penalty for someone caught throwing objects at traffic is five years in jail. After the incident, the railway authority has resolved to step up security patrols in the area.
The authority has also raised concern for cars driving over tracks in front of oncoming trains.
Police say a driver can be fined $400 if they are caught driving through the red warning lights at a railway crossing.
Federal Resources Minister Martin Ferguson has ramped up his criticism of plans to sell Queensland Rail (QR) in a public float, calling it now ‘a recipe for disaster’.
The State Government is planning to sell both QR’s coal haulage railway tracks and general freight business as one business in a public float later this year.
But Mr Ferguson told Wednesday’s ABC TV 7.30 Report the Queensland Government should consider a coal industry proposal to sell the tracks separately.
“If we don’t get this right, we’ll hold back exports which will undermine royalty receipts for the Queensland Government,” he said.
“In doing so we will restrict jobs growth in Queensland.”
Ranchi, Mar 23 (ANI): The Maoists on Tuesday morning gunned down a policeman in Jharkhand”s Sareikela-Kharsawan during their two-day shutdown call, which began on Monday.
The policeman identified as Kalicharan Bodra was killed, when the rebels fired indiscriminately on a police patrolling team near Chouka police station around 1: 30 a.m.
The Maoists later hid into the forests after the police personnel launched a counter attack.
The security forces have launched an extensive search operation and are keeping a strong vigil at strategic locations.
Meanwhile, the Maoists attacked railway tracks in four states of West Bengal, Orissa, Bihar and Jharkhand during the second day of their two-day shutdown call.
At least three trains have been cancelled and over 17 diverted to avoid further attacks.
The Maoists are observing the shutdown across the six states of West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhatisgarh, Orissa and Andhra Pradesh in protest against the Union Budget, which the rebels claim is anti-poor and prepared under the dictates of the World Bank. (ANI)
Infrastructure company ATEC says the proposed sale of Queensland Rail (QR) could disrupt plans to build an inland railway.
ATEC and QR are part of a consortium that is finalising plans to build the railway linking the Surat Basin to the Port of Gladstone in the state’s central region.
ATEC chairman Everald Compton says speculation about the sale is disrupting plans to build the railway.
“We’ve spent years getting this far with the track – we can’t let it stop,” he said.
“My hope is that the new owners of QR will approach it positively and we can move forward.
“I can’t see any reason why we can’t go ahead, provided there’s cooperation between the three partners and it continues.”
Mr Compton says the new owners of QR’s coal freight arm may decide not to go ahead with the project.
“What we want to make sure of is that whoever winds up owning QR has got the same commitment to complete the line, will make the same investment to do that, will make the time and staff [available] to do that,” he said.
“We’ll still build it, we’ll find another partner and build it, but it’s a bit of an issue.”
Agra, March 17 (IANS) Dead bodies found along railway tracks, at road accident sites and in village wells in this region shall not be cremated without a record. They will now have a permanent abode in cyber space.
An NGO in the Taj city, ‘Help Agra’, Wednesday launched a website, www.unidentifieddeadbodies.in, which will show all available details culled from police records, along with photos of unidentified bodies.
What usually happens is that police do not wait long enough for the relatives or make extra effort to contact people who would know something about a dead body, Ashok Goyal, head of the Kshetra Bajaja Samiti which looks after the Taj Ganj cremation ground, told IANS.
‘For many years we have been collecting data and seeking assistance from government agencies but they did not respond,’ Goyal said.
‘If even one family benefits from our service, we will feel our mission has been accomplished. Our aim is to maintain a register of unknown and unclaimed bodies kept in mortuaries.’
The organisation will perform the last rites of unclaimed bodies according to their religion, if known.
Gorakhpur, Sept 19 (ANI): Volunteers of a social service organisation and the personnel of the Anti-Human Trafficking Cell of Uttar Pradesh Police at Gorakhpur detained four Nepalese women.
Reportedly, as per the statement of the women who were taken into custody at the Gorakhpur Railway Station, they were intending to go to Muscat.
These women had entered India through the Sanauli border post.
Although all the four women had their respective passports with them, only two of them could show their endorsed visas for Muscat.
“Our team visited the railway station along with a Nepali counsellor. When she saw these women and spoke to them, they gave some wrong information, which in turn sounded fishy and made us to suspect something was amiss. When we asked them where they were heading, initially they said Oman and again changed their statement saying, New Delhi. When our counsellor asked them for their passports, some said they had it while others said they didn’t. So, we found them suspicious,” said Gyan Kumar, co-ordinator, Maanava Sewa Sansthan, Gorakhpur.
Amidst such confusing utterances by the women, the police believe that one of the women named Dilmaya was trying to send the other three to Muscat by bringing them from Nepal.
She claimed that they were going to Muscat because they had their relatives residing and working there.
“These people held us for interrogation. We asked them either to let us go to Nepal or else allow us to go to Muscat. We have our relatives there,” said Dilmaya.
A couple of months ago, police officials of Gorakhpur had detained five women who were allegedly being trafficked to Gulf countries for flesh trade.
Reportedly, a pimp was escorting these women to Mumbai from where they were to be sent to certain destinations in the Middle East. (ANI)
Kolkata, Sep 19 (ANI): Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee flagged off Sealdah-New Delhi Duronto express, the country’s first point-to-point non-stop train in Kolkata.
The Duronto express will cover the 1447-km distance between Sealdah and New Delhi in 16 hours and 20 minutes.
“After 30 years there is a train called Duronto. It will go faster than Rajdhani and it is an achievement, it will go non-stop and will stop only at the operation stop where they will take drinking water or whatever, only operational stoppage, otherwise no,” said Banerjee.
The train will have no commercial stop, but has three operational stops at Dhanbad, Moghalsarai and Kanpur Central.
The 16-coach train comprises one AC-1, three AC-II, four AC-III and five AC-III (economy) coaches.
Banerjee also said the 14 Duronto Expresses announced in the Railway budget would be operational shortly.
These trains will be launched in Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai and Bangalore as a pilot project.
Passengers boarding the train on the first day were extremely excited.
“Well, first thing is that first day it has got added attraction plus it is the fastest super fast train. So I got the opportunity I thought I will avail it,” said TK Singh, a passenger. (ANI)
New Delhi, Sep 18 (ANI): Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee has said an external agency would probe allegations of graft during her predecessor’s tenure.
Lawmakers belonging to Bihar’s Janata Dal (United) had alleged that that during the tenure of former Railways Minister Lalu Prasad, people were asked to cede land to the railways in exchange for jobs and contracts in the organisation.
Railway Recruitment Boards (RRB) and the Railway Recruitment Committees (RRC) make recruitment to Indian Railways.
“RRB and the RRC is an organisation. They do it for this. So if severe complaints come against the RRB and RRC then it is the procedure of the department, they do it internally if internal matter is involved and if outsiders are involved then the procedure is to depute an outside agency,” Banerjee told reporters here on Thursday.
She said it would also review past land seizures, mostly from farmers. It needs land to proceed with a 5.8 billion dollars project to connect Indian regions and spur economic activity. (ANI)
New Delhi, Sep 17 (ANI): The Union Cabinet today approved the proposal of the Ministry of Railways for payment of Productivity Linked Bonus (PLB) equivalent to 75 days’ wages for all eligible non-gazetted Railway employees.
The move will benefit 13.05 lakh employees and it will cost the xchequer Rs 889 crore
The salient features of the PLB scheme evolved as a result of review of the scheme and approval of the cabinet on September 23, 2000.
Railways were the first departmental undertaking of the Government of India wherein the concept of PLB was introduced. The main consideration at that time was the important role of the Railways as an infrastructural support in the performance of the economy as a whole.
In the overall context of Railway working, it was considered desirable to introduce the concept of PLB as against the concept of Bonus on the lines of ‘The Payment of Bonus Act – 1965′.
The PLB scheme for the Railways came into force from the year 1979-80 onwards and was evolved in consultation with the two recognised federations viz. All India Railwaymen’s Federation and National Federation of Indian Railwaymen and with the approval of the Cabinet. The scheme envisages a review every three years. (ANI)
Agartala, Sep, 16 (ANI): A 16- year- old juvenile, who fled from custody with five other Bangladesh nationals, was arrested by Agartala Police on Wednesday.
Police have recovered three American pistols and ammunition from him.
West Tripura District Superintendent of Police K V Sreejesh said: “Based on the information last night we arrested one person from the Battala area and recovered two loaded pistols from his position.”
“During the interrogation, he informed about another pistol hidden in a temple near the Agartala railway station which also we have found along with eight live cartridges and six magazines,” Sreejesh added.
The juvenile arms carrier has been identified as Shiva Das and is suspected to have received the pistols from Bangladesh.
Police suspect an arms racket is on ahead of Durga Puja in Tripura.
A case has been registered under the Arms Possession and Using of Fire Arms Act. By Pinaki Das (ANI)
New Delhi, Sept 17 (ANI): Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee has lauded Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi’s train ride as part of his party’s austerity drive.
Mamata Banerjee, who inaugurated the newly spruced up terminal of New Delhi railway station in the capital along with Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Tuesday, lauded the austerity act.
Gandhi travelled in an air-conditioned chair car of the Swarn Shatabdi Express on Tuesday, a day after his mother Sonia Gandhi travelled in an economy class flight from New Delhi to Mumbai.
Rahul travelled from New Delhi to Ludhiana to inaugurate a four-day camp of young Congressmen.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has asked the Congress leaders to observe austerity to cut down expenditure in the wake of draught declared in parts of the country.
Earlier, the Congress Party had decided that its ministers and lawmakers would also take a 20 per cent cut in salaries.
The Congress Party has also urged the government to keep prices of essential commodities in check with special emphasis on oil seeds and pulses. (ANI)
New Delhi, Sept 16 (ANI): Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee hailed the good showing of Trinamool Congress in civic polls in Darjeeling district as victory over state-sponsored terrorism.
In the 47-member district council, the Trinamool Congress and the Congress combine bagged 15 seats each. The Left Front, led by the Communist Party of India (Marxists) won 17 seats.
“I think this is a victory of democracy against state-sponsored terrorism, the autocracy and every day they are making conspiracy against the United Progressive Alliance and the central government and the central ministers also. This is their habit. This fort was absolutely the red fort and you know how Darjeeling … it is a prestigious district. It is a very prestigious victory,” Banerjee told reporters in national capital New Delhi.
Banerjee also accused the State Government of not helping the Central Government’s efforts to curb Maoists.
“P. Chidambaram is very correct. He said he was trying his best but he was not getting any help from the State Government. When the Central Government is trying to do something, then the state police are giving information to the Maoists that the Central police are coming. They did not allow the Central police to come to the actual area where they exist,” said Banerjee.
Maoists have formally been labelled as a terrorist group by the Central Government. (ANI)
New Delhi, Sep.13 (ANI): A Delhi Metro Railway Corporation (DMRC) coach on the Indraprashta-Yamuna Nagar line derailed early on Sunday morning.
Though the cause of the 6 a.m.derailment was not immediately known, several routes along the metro line were disrupted. o casualties were reported.
Earlier, a DMRC train going towards Yamuna Bank from Dwarka Sector 9 developed a break problem in the middle of its journey which led to a delay of 15 minutes, DMRC sources said.
Passengers, however, complained that the trains were delayed for upto 30 minutes. (ANI)
Rourkela, Sep 10 (ANI): The Maoists blew up a railway track and at least four government buildings in Orissa’s Sundargarh district today.
According to police sources, the rebels blasted railway tracks at around seven places between Bimlagarh and Patangi.
They also blew up an abandoned police station building at Kalta, another building where a CRPF camp was functioning earlier, a community centre and office building of CITU.
Train services between Rourkela and Barsuan have been completely disrupted due to the blasts. here was no report about any casualty in the attacks.
The Maoists have called for a 24-hour shut-down in the district today to demand release of 30 people, who were arrested on the suspicion that were naxalites. (ANI)
New Delhi, Sep 9 (ANI): Indian Railways have decided to install biometric identification system at its vital installations across the country.
The project will increase the protection of major IT installations and PRS (Passenger Reservation Service) data centres in view of the threat of attacks, which could disrupt train operations and damage database.
“We have sanctioned a pilot project at an estimated cost of Rs 4.4 crores for installing biometric identification at vital installation and offices of Indian Railways,” said a senior Railway Ministry official.
The Zonal railways have been asked to identify vital installation and offices where biometric identification system is to be installed. (ANI)
London, Sep. 9 (ANI): A white supremacist was given an indefinite jail term by a British court after being found guilty of planning a bomb attack on Asians and blacks.
Pro-Nazi Neil Lewington, 43, was branded as “a dangerous man who exhibits emotional coldness and detachment”, The Sun reports.
Racist fanatic Lewington will have to serve a minimum of six years before even being considered for release.
Judge Peter Thornton said: “I accept that in ordinary language, you are an oddball – eccentric, dysfunctional and sometimes immature. But I do not accept you are no more than a pest. My assessment is that you are a dangerous man.”
Lewington was on the verge of launching a bomb blitz on those he considered “non-Britons” when he was arrested by chance for being drunk on a railway station.
Cops found two homemade firebombs in the jobless electrician’s bag.
And when they searched the home he shared with his parents in Reading, Berks, they discovered a bomb factory in his bedroom and plans to make shrapnel grenades from tennis balls and nuts.
They also found a notebook entitled “Waffen SS UK members’ handbook”.
Lewington wrote a chapter in it headed “Targeting or attacking Pakis.”
Lewington’s bedroom contained fascist propaganda including videos of Right-wing terrorists such as London nail bomber David Copeland and Oklahoma fiend Timothy McVeigh.
He was found guilty of five terrorism and two explosives charges at an earlier Old Bailey trial.
His parents, who were present in court, revealed that he had not spoken to his father for a decade. (ANI)
Mumbai, Sep 1(ANI): A brief halt in the Mumbai local railway line due to a technical snag caused uproar in Thane district on Tuesday, as commuters protested against railway authorities.
The trouble started when an overhead wire snapped near Borivali station leading to the delay, which created a chain reaction on the line, slowing down rush hour traffic.
“Train services on Western line were delayed by 20-30 minutes after an overhead wire snapped at suburban Borivali station,” said C David, Public Relations Officer of Western Railway.
According to reports, commuters protested and shouted slogans at the Nallasopora station, and also disrupted road traffic on the Western Express highway between Borivali and Mira Road, as local trains were not running as per schedule.
As the situation threatened to go out of control, police had to resort to lathi-charge and also fired five rounds in the air to disperse the crowd.
The line was soon repaired, and the situation was brought under control, a railway police official said. (ANI)
Mumbai, Sep.1 (ANI): Train services along the Western Railway route resumed partially on Tuesday, hours after police had to resort to a baton charge and firing in the air to disperse irate passengers.
The Chief Public Relations Officer of the Western Railway, S.S. Gupta, told a television channel that police and railway officers were trying their best to restore normalcy along the railway route.
Gupta said that trains were now moving smoothly up to the Vasai Railway Station.
Earlier, the Police had to resort to firing in the air and baton charging irate passengers at the Nala Sopara Railway Station in Thane District, as the passengers expressed their anger over the delay and disruption of local train services.
Police first baton charged the mob and then fired in the air. No casualties were immediately reported from the venue of the incident.
Nala Sopara is a city and a municipal council in Thane district. It is a town within the Mumbai Conurbation. The population of the city is 184,664 (2001 census). It is also the name of a railway station on the Mumbai suburban railway on the Western Railway Railway line. (ANI)
Mumbai, Sep.1 (ANI): Police on Tuesday resorted to firing in the air and baton charging irate passengers near a Mumbai railway station.
According to preliminary television reports, the incident took place at the Nala Sopara Railway Station nin Thane District, as the passengers expressed their anger over the delay and disruption of local train services.
Police first baton charged the mob and then fired in the air. No casualties were immediately reported from the venue of the incident.
Nala Sopara is a city and a municipal council in Thane district. It is a town within the Mumbai Conurbation. The population of the city is 184,664 (2001 census). It is also the name of a railway station on the Mumbai suburban railway on the Western Railway railway line. (ANI)
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