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• in Politics
  Why Should The US Worry If India’s Mamta Has Gone Mad?
  For the west and the US especially, who consider India as the place to be in for growth and business from multi billion dollar deals to create jobs back home, this mad embrace of populism by ultra sensitive female leaders of India must be a serious concern and a factor not to be missed in whatever projections they make
  by forgevalley / on Mar 14, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “railways”

 

• Six of the Best 354

  
  Liberal England — Authority: 147
  The View from the Hills offers 14 thoughts on British politics after three years of the Coalition. "It was a gorgeously sunny and calm day yesterday afternoon on the south west coast of Wales. 13,000ft above sea level, somewhere above Swansea Airport, I was sitting hunched up in a plane, ready to free-fall back to ...
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• Belgium, the railways

  
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  SNCB is the national railways in Belgium. Infrabel is the infrastructure manager with ca 3200 km of tracks and ca 14.000 signals. Brussels is the main city of the country and his main station in Bruxelles-Midi (Brussel Zuid in dutch). All TGV and ICE trains come in Bruxelles-Midi and go to Paris, Amsterdam or Cologne ...
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• “Dave, where did it all go wrong?”

  
  Malcolm Redfellow's Home Service — Authority: 134
  Malcolm would welcome the source of the famous George Best anecdote, with that punch-line. Some claim it was from George himself . But where did David Cameron’s woes begin? Nick Robinson hasn’t — as far as Malcolm can see — offered his definitive analysis yet [UPDATE: see here ] . That cannot be ...
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• Shinkansen 2027: Fiercely Minimalist Maglev Stations?

  
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  Fourteen years from now, when Japan’s magnetically levitated, approx. 300MPH/482KPH Chuō Shinkansen comes online, it’ll be among the world’s coolest people movers – maybe even top of the list. And the world’s most fantastic train should have equally fantastic train stations, yeah? Maybe not. While the ...
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• Pakistan, Rusting in Its Tracks

  
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  By Declan Walsh, NY Times, May 18, 2013 RUK, Pakistan—Resplendent in his gleaming white uniform and peaked cap, jacket buttons tugging his plump girth, the stationmaster stood at the platform, waiting for a train that would never come. “Cutbacks,” Nisar Ahmed Abro said with a resigned shrug. Ruk Station, in ...
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• Pensioners Demand: AIRFs 8 Agenda Items to DoPPW for forthcoming meeting

  
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  8 Agenda Items by All India Railway Faderation(AIRF) forwarded to Secreatry, Department of Pension & Pensioners Welfare (DoP&PW) vide letter No.AIRF/NC/JCM(GC)(Pension)  May 18, 2013  for the forthcoming meeting with Secretary(Pension).   Subject of all agenda Items are given below:- Item No.1 : Less ...
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• Railways to the Kashmir Valley, India

  
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  Railways are the backbone of transportation system in India. Indian Railways employs largest number of employees not only in the country but across the world. With China reaching across the Himalayas, cutting across the Himalayas in Ladakh, Tibet, and Western Pakistan, Indian government has also decided to connect its ...
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• Prime Minister meets with Yakunin, the President of “Russian Railway” Cooperative

  
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  Prime Minister meets with Yakunin, the President of “Russian Railway” Cooperative Mr. Yakunin expressed his gratefulness for making the meeting possible on the horizontal line of new railway. Prime Minister Altankhuyag noted the importance of respecting mutual interests in the investment and management of the new ...
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• Penny Post Office in Winter: Population = 1

  
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  Further to my article in October Stamp News about the remote Penny Post Office between Prince George and Jasper in Canada that handles all its mail by rail, I received an email from the Postmaster and her husband on Christmas Day. The population of 5½ in summer increased to 6 when the previous Postmaster gave birth ...
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• Infrastructure needed to celebrate AU’s 50th anniversary

  
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  Ozwald Boateng “Unity has no meaning unless it is the ability of the coal miner in Botswana to power a plant in Angola or the farmer in Uganda to export food to those short of food in northern Kenya”. This is the verdict of Ozwald Boateng ( ozwaldboateng.co.uk ), a powerful force in menswear and fashion for 25 ...
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• A History Of Cornish Railways

  
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  Cornwall can lay claim to being the birthplace of the notion of using steel wheels on metal rails as a means of transporting goods. In 1804, noted engineer and native of the county, Richard Trevithick, built the first railway locomotive, Penydarren, but as it ran in south Wales, the county lost out on the distinction ...
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• A relic of Stamfords railway history

  
  Liberal England — Authority: 147
  We have seen Stamford Water Street or Stamford East. When it was open, the towns other station was known as Stamford Town. Stamford Town is still open today as plain Stamford - platform 1 for trains to Peterborough, platform 2 for trains to Leicester. But when you are there it is obvious that there used to be a ...
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• Tribal Area Allowance to Railway employees: Rajya Sabha Q&A

  
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  GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF  RAILWAYS RAJYA SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO-524 ANSWERED ON-03.05.2013 Tribal Area Allowance 524 . SHRI FAGGAN SINGH KULASTE (a) whether there is a provision of giving Tribal Area Allowance by the Ministry under Tribal Sub-plan on the line of State Governments in the country; ...
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• Central government approves shortfall loan for Mumbai Trans Harbour Link concessionaire

  
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  Indian government’s empowered committee of the department of economic affairs (DEA) has approved 10% shortfall loan to the Mumbai Trans Harbour Link (MTHL) concessionaire. The Committee has arrived at this...
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• Western Railway announces night blocks between Vasai Road, Bhayander

  
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  Due to construction work of subway at Naigaon is in full swing, Western Railway (WR) has said that two night blocks will be carried out in the nights falling between...
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• Archives International Auctions - Summer auction 2013

  
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  Archivers International Auctions Part XV US and worldwide banknotes, coins, scripophily and security printing ephemera Compagnie des Chemins de Fer de lEst English: Est Railroad Company $1000 7% External Sinking Fund Gold Bond, specimen France, 1924 Date : June 4, 2013 Place : Fort Lee, ...
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• Reservation under Sports Quota in Railways: Lok Sabha Q&A

  
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  GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS LOK SABHA UNSTARRED  QUESTION NO  5855 ANSWERED ON  02.05.2013 RESERVATION UNDER SPORTS QUOTA IN RAILWAYS 5855 .    Smt. BHAVANA PUNDLIKRAO GAWALI PATIL  Will the Minister of RAILWAYS be pleased to state:- (a) the norms/guidelines for reservation in ...
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• Risk Allowance in respect of eligible unskilled staff on the railways: Enhancement in the rate

  
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  GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RAILWAY RAILWAY BOARD RBE No. 44/2013 No.E(P&A)I-2008/SP-1/AD-3 New Delhi Dated 02.05.2013 Sub : Enhancement in the rate of Risk Allowance in respect of eligible unskilled staff on the railways in accordance with DOP&Ts guidelines. Ref : Railway Board letter ...
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• Spring on the Rails the CPR Lambton Yard from the rear of the Cintas plant which shares a property line with the CPR t

  
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  Viewed toward the west. Junctioneer.ca Location:Runnymede Rd,Toronto,Canada Tweet This Post The post Spring on the Rails the CPR Lambton Yard from the rear of the Cintas plant which shares a property line with the CPR t appeared first on junctioneer - Toronto Junction .
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• Railways bribe case: CBI to grill four accused till May 9

  
  WorldSnap News — Authority: 146
  New Delhi : A Delhi court Tuesday remanded four accused, including Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal’s nephew Vijay Singla and businessman Ajay Garg, to CBI custody till May 9 in the railways bribe case. Four other co-accused were sent to judicial custody. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Special Judge ...
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