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PATNA: The Bihar government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with a consultant - Rites Ltd - for feasibility study and Detailed Project Report preparation for the proposed 30-km Patna Metro railway project, officials said on Tuesday.The MOU was signed between the Rites Ltd Director (Projects) Arbind Kumar and Urban Development Secretary S Siddarth yesterday.Under the agreement, RITES Ltd will be required to submit the feasibility report by September, 2013 and DPR by December, 2013, they said.In its scope of works, the consultant will be required to identity the mass transit corridors on the basis of detailed traffic demand assessment study, topographic survey, soil survey at 500 meters interval on the proposed stretch among other measures, they said.

PATNA :   The Bihar government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with a consultant – Rites Ltd – for feasibility study and Detailed Project Report preparation for the proposed 30-km Patna Metro railway project, officials said today.The MOU was signed between the Rites Ltd Director (Projects) Arbind Kumar and Urban Development Secretary S Siddarth yesterday.Under the agreement, RITES Ltd will be required to submit the feasibility report by September, 2013 and DPR by December, 2013, they said.In its scope of works, the consultant will be required to identity the mass transit corridors on the basis of detailed traffic demand assessment study, topographic survey, soil survey at 500 meters interval on the proposed stretch among other measures, they said.

With M. Mallikarjun Kharge being allotted the Railways portfolio in the Union Cabinet reshuffle on Monday, the Ministry has returned to Karnataka after a short gap.

Monday’s reshuffle has also increased the number of Ministers at the Centre from Karnataka to five, with Oscar Fernandes being given the Roads and Highways Ministry portfolio.

The Railways has been with Karnataka on and off since 1963. H.C. Dasappa, C.M. Poonacha, Kengal Hanumanthaiya and C.K. Jaffer Sharief are among those from the State who have held the portfolio.

Basanagouda R. Patil Yatnal and K.H. Muniyappa have also been Ministers of State for Railways.

Mr. Kharge’s move to the Railway Ministry is seen as the party high command’s “reward” for his loyalty.

Haflong (Assam), June 18 (PTI) Two suspected insurgents with arms, ammunition and some documents were arrested from Lumding railway station in Dima Hasao district in Assam.

Based on intelligence inputs, the police and Railway Police Force arrested the two underground suspects Rahul Bodo alias Tusi Sukripa and Monjit Langthasa last night.

The news of auctioning the historic Sir Arthur Elibank Havelock Bridge across the Godavari shortly by the Railway Board came as a rude shock to the people of Rajahmundry as well as East and West Godavari district.

In a recent meeting, the General Manager of South Central Railway informed the local MLA that the Railway Board had taken a decision to auction the Bridge as scrap.

Immediately, the MLA appealed to Rajahmundry MP Vundavalli Arun Kumar to keep the decision of the Railway Board in abeyance and then represent it to Union Railway Minister and State Minister.

The issue, which has been hanging fire for long, has come to the fore again, when Union Minister of State for Railways Kotla Suryaprakash Reddy came to Rajahmundry in the month of December, 2012.

After serving the Indian Railways for over a century, the Havelock Bridge was abandoned.

After the news was broke out, historians, academicians, intellectuals, elite and non-government organisations along with political parties decided to take up agitations to protect the historical monument.

The proposed ‘rail roko’ at Bahardulki between Raruli and Liliguma stations in Andhra Pradesh along the Kirandul-Kottavalasa line has prompted the East Coast Railway to effect a change in train movement.

 Apprehending disruption and passenger inconvenience, the EcoR has decided to short-terminate Bhubaneswar-Jagdalpur Hirakhand Express at Rayagada on Tuesday. The train will return from Rayagada station. The services of Hirakhand Express will be cancelled between Jagdalpur and Rayagada in both the directions.

 Howrah-Koraput Express, leaving Howrah on Monday, will also be short-terminated at Rayagada on Tuesday and returned.

The train has been cancelled between Jagdalpur and Rayagada from both sides. The Rourkela-Koraput Express will be terminated at Titlagarh. There will be no movement of train between Titlagarh and Koraput.

 The fate of Durg-Jagdalpur Express will be the same. It will terminate at Titlagarh and return, a Press release from ECoR said. The Visakhapatnam-Koraput-Visakhapatnam passenger will be short-terminated at Rayagada too. The Koraput-Visakhapatnam Express and Sambalpur-Koraput-Sambalpur Passenger stand cancelled due to the agitation which is being staged to demand stoppage of express trains and opening of a booking counter at Bahardulki in Koraput district.

With M. Mallikarjun Kharge being allotted the Railways portfolio in the Union Cabinet reshuffle on Monday, the Ministry has returned to Karnataka after a short gap.Monday’s reshuffle has also increased the number of Ministers at the Centre from Karnataka to five, with Oscar Fernandes being given the Roads and Highways Ministry.The Railways has been with Karnataka on and off since 1963. H.C. Dasappa, C.M. Poonacha, Kengal Hanumanthaiya and C.K. Jaffer Sharief are among those from the State who have held the portfolio.Mr. Kharge’s move to the Railway Ministry, after having missed the chief ministerial post last month, is seen as the party high command’s “reward” for his loyalty.

देहरादून से जाने वाली लाहौरी एक्सप्रेस को अग्रिम आदेशों तक रद कर दिया गया है। भारी बरसात के चलते पंजाब में बाढ़ जैसी स्थिति होने के कारण गाड़ी को रद कर दिया गया है। वहीं, सोमवार को दून पहुंचने वाली अधिकांश गाड़ियां तय समय से सात घंटे तक देर से पहुंची।
पूरे उत्तर भारत में पड़ रही मूसलाधार बरसात से जनजीवन अस्त-व्यस्त हो गया है। परिवहन सेवाओं पर भी इसका असर नजर आ रहा है। रेल यातायात भी खासा प्रभावित हुआ है। कई क्षेत्रों में रेल मार्गो पर जलभराव होने के कारण ट्रेनें लेट पहुंच रही है। अमृतसर जाने वाली लाहौरी एक्सप्रेस को अग्रिम आदेशों तक रद कर दिया गया है। सोमवार को लिंक एक्सप्रेस करीब सात घंटे लेट पहुंची। उप स्टेशन अधीक्षक ओपी सिंह के मुताबिक लाहौरी एक्सप्रेस को रद कर दिया गया है। पंजाब में बाढ़ जैसी स्थिति होने के कारण इस ट्रेन को अग्रिम आदेशों तक रद किया गया है। हालांकि, दून से जाने वाली ट्रेनों को तय समय पर रवाना किया जा रहा है।
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LUCKNOW: The movement of trains was affected due to heavy rain and waterlogging on the tracks in Ambala division on Monday.The 12231 Lucknow-Chandigarh Express and 15011 Lucknow Junction-Chandigarh Express scheduled on Sunday (June 16) were short terminated at Saharanpur and cancelled between Saharanpur and Chandigarh.The 12358 Amritsar-Kolkata Superfast Express, 15210 Amritsar-Saharsa Janseva Express, 12688 Chandigarh/Dehradun-Chennai Express and 12332 Jammu Tawi-Howrah Himgiri Express (scheduled on June 16) were diverted via Delhi-Ambala route.The 12317 Sealdah-Amritsar Akal Takhat Express and 15209 Saharsa-Amritsar Janseva Express (of June 16) were diverted via Najibabad-Gajraula-Ghaziabad-Adarsh Nagar Delhi-Ambala.The 14712 Sriganganagar-Haridwar Intercity Express and 12054 Amritsar-Haridwar Jan Shatabdi Express were short terminated at Ambala. Some passenger trains were also cancelled.

PATNA: The Bihar government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with a consultant - Rites Ltd - for feasibility study and Detailed Project Report preparation for the proposed 30-km Patna Metro railway project, officials said on Tuesday.The MOU was signed between the Rites Ltd Director (Projects) Arbind Kumar and Urban Development Secretary S Siddarth yesterday.Under the agreement, RITES Ltd will be required to submit the feasibility report by September, 2013 and DPR by December, 2013, they said.In its scope of works, the consultant will be required to identity the mass transit corridors on the basis of detailed traffic demand assessment study, topographic survey, soil survey at 500 meters interval on the proposed stretch among other measures, they said.