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The project, which is about 16.6 km long, connects Howrah to the west and Salt Lake to the east. Out of the entire length, 10.8 km runs under the ground. (Photo: Screengrab)

India’s first underwater metro to start in Kolkata soon, Piyush Goyal tweets video

Along with the caption, Goyal also shared a video that talks about the engineering associated with construction of underwater metro tunnels.

09 Aug 2019 8:59 AM

The 72nd Ijtema, an annual religious gathering attended by a million of devotees every year in Bhopal, is slated to be held from November 22 to 25. (Photo: ANI)

Bhopal: Committee writes to Goyal seeking arrangement for clearing rush during Ijtema

It also urged the ministry to arrange a 24-hour active booking office on November 25 and 26 at the Bhopal railway station.

01 Aug 2019 1:54 PM

Minister of Railways informed: 'Bullet Train or High-Speed Rail Projects are highly capital and technology-intensive, and therefore, their proposals for other sections are subject to technical feasibility, financial and economic viability and availability of funding.' (Photo: File)

Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet train project to be completed by 2023: Piyush Goyal

This project is being executed by a special purpose vehicle namely National High-Speed Rail Corporation Limited.

26 Jul 2019 3:52 PM

Overall there has been no loss of traffic by Indian Railways to other modes of transport like airlines. (Photo: @RailMinIndia)

Flexi fare applicable to only 141 trains: Piyush Goyal

Out of these 141 trains, Flexi fare is applicable in 32 trains for nine months only.

25 Jul 2019 12:15 PM

India improved its position the most in certain pillars including labour productivity growth, knowledge and technology outputs, intellectual property related variables. (Representational Image)

India jumps 5 places to 52nd in global innovation index

India maintained its top place in the Central and Southern Asia region.

25 Jul 2019 8:54 AM

'Railways have decided to electrify 100 per cent of its broad gauge rail routes in mission mode, as a green mode of transport,' Goyal said during Question Hour. (Photo: File)

In an environment friendly step, railways to electrify all broad gauge rail routes

Goyal said railways is taking various environmental friendly or energy efficiency measures to reduce carbon footprint.

24 Jul 2019 3:26 PM

Goyal said in Lok Sabha that the FFS with corpus of Rs 10,000 crore will meet the funding needs of startups. (Photo: Representational)

254 startups get Rs 1,700 cr investment from Alternative Investment Funds

Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal said these funds have raised a corpus fund of Rs 25,728 crore.

24 Jul 2019 2:44 PM

Goyal: 9 railway stations would be revamped too

The announcement was made by Mr Goyal recently, when he launched the restoration work of the 166-year-old Byculla station on the Central line.

23 Jul 2019 6:15 AM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was declared as the most admired man in India and sixth most admired man in the world. (Photo: File)

PM Modi becomes India's most admired man of 2019

With a total audience of over 100 million across social media platforms, PM Modi is also the second most follower politician in the world.

20 Jul 2019 4:32 PM

The AISAM panel would be meeting soon, most probably after the conclusion of the ongoing Parliament session on July 26. (Representational Image)

Amit Shah to head ministerial panel on Air India sale

The AISAM has been reconstituted. It is now a four- member panel, against five members earlier, said a source.

18 Jul 2019 3:54 PM

Goyal is on a three-day visit to the UK to attend the India Day conclave. (Photo: ANI)

Piyush Goyal meets Theresa May in London

The railway and commerce minister also met investors and discussed various opportunities that the Indian market offers for growth.

17 Jul 2019 6:36 PM

Sunilam was travelling from Nizamuddin to Multai in an air-conditioned coach of Gondwana Express on the intervening night of Monday-Tuesday. (Representational Image)

Ex-SP MLA claims being threatened, hides inside train toilet to save life

In a letter, he complained about the incident to Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Tuesday.

17 Jul 2019 12:38 PM

No changes planned in multi-brand FDI policy: Piyush Goyal

On multi-brand retail we are very clear as of now it's a 49 pc restriction for foreign investment, Goyal said.

16 Jul 2019 7:23 PM

Railway Minister Piyush Goyal. (Photo: File)

UPA did not ‘reply’ to 2006 train blasts, Modi would have responded: Piyush Goyal

Goyal was referring to surgical strikes in 2016 and aerial strike on terror camp in Pakistan earlier this year after Pulwama terror attack.

12 Jul 2019 4:02 PM

Railway Minister Piyush Goyal. (Photo: ANI)

No question of privatisation of rlys, some units will be corporatised: Goyal

Goyal said track kilometre grew from 77,609 km to 89,919 km from 1950-2014 and rose to 1,23,236 km in the past five years.

12 Jul 2019 1:59 PM

Adhir Ranjan Choudhury’s take on railways amuses Lok Sabha

At another stage, Mr Choudhury commented that his party will praise the government if it does good work and criticise for bad work.

12 Jul 2019 4:13 AM

An official said that relevant issues for both the countries on trade and commerce would be discussed during the meeting. (Photo: Representational | PTI)

India, US officials to meet Friday to discuss trade issues

A team led by AUSTR for South and Central Asia, Christopher Wilson, will hold the meeting with senior government officials.

11 Jul 2019 7:20 PM

In a separate written reply, Goyal said that as on April 1 this year, there were 189 new lines projects totalling 21,443 kilometres in various stages of planning/ approval/ execution, which will connect areas not covered so far under railway network. (Photo: File)

No proposal to privatise Railways: Goyal

Railway Minister Piyush Goyal said 'no specific passenger train has been identified to be run by private payers so far.'

10 Jul 2019 2:03 PM

Railways Minister Piyush Goyal on Wednesday told the Lok Sabha that more than 4.61 lakh people were recruited in Railways over the last decade. (Photo: PTI | Representional)

Railways recruiting people for over 2.94 lakh vacancies: Govt

In 2018-19, action was initiated to fill up 2,94,420 job vacancies in Railways.

10 Jul 2019 1:55 PM

Piyush Goyal said that in the 26th round of RCEP negotiations at the experts level, which has concluded recently in Melbourne, some progress has been achieved with member countries showing a degree of flexibility and accommodation. (Photo: File)

Industry not convinced that RCEP will create win-win situation for all: Goyal

Indian Industry is not convinced that RCEP will create a win-win situation for all, the ministry said in a statement.

09 Jul 2019 7:34 PM

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