TAG: Railways
Starmer’s ‘quiet’ climate radicalism sets up battle with Farage
LONDON — Early last year, U.K. Labour leader Keir Starmer’s top green lieutenant traveled to Berlin. He was there to take notes on a German government full of climate vim. Starmer’s man Ed Miliband — then in opposition, now the U.K. energy secretary — enc...
2 months ago
Labour’s top policy priorities
LONDON — Keir Starmer has arrived in Downing Street with his new Cabinet. So what are their first priorities?Big-ticket items include decarbonizing the electricity grid by 2030, building 1.5 million homes over five years, hitting long-missed health servic...
2 months ago
Hungary quietly takes €1B loan from Chinese banks
Hungary borrowed €1 billion — the largest loan ever taken out by Budapest — from three Chinese banks this spring, data from the government's debt agency website revealed. The loan, provided by the China Development Bank, the Export-Import Bank of China an...
2 months ago
Global tech outage takes down banks, media, airports
Global business operations came to a standstill on Friday morning due to a glitch at a cybersecurity software provider that grounded airplanes and disrupted financial institutions. The outage was caused by a software update at cybersecurity firm Crowdstri...
2 months ago
MC Exclusive: Govt to conduct first ever National Household Travel Survey in 2025
In a bid to track how people commute across the country, the government will be conducting the first ever National Household Travel Survey as part of its 80th round of NSS Surveys, Moneycontrol has learnt.The ministry of statistics and programme implement...
2 months ago
Ministry dissolves Standing Committee on Statistics citing overlap with Sample Survey panel
The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) has dissolved the Standing Committee on Statistics to avoid overlap with another panel.In a letter to the members, the ministry noted that the 14-member committee is being dissolved as the te...
1 month ago
FM Nirmala Sitharaman asks railways to accelerate work on capacity and infrastructure boost, including Kavach
The Railways ministry should expedite work on capacity and infrastructure augmentation, and focus on safety and commuter convenience as laid down in the Budget Capex, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on September 17.The minister “urged the officia...
4 weeks ago
Cabinet approves productivity linked bonus worth Rs 2,028 cr for railway employees
The Union Cabinet announced and approved payment of Productivity Linked Bonus (PLB) for the country’s 11,72,240 railway employees at a total cost of Rs 2,028.57 crore, aimed to recognise and motivate the staff for their excellent performance.The PLB amoun...
1 week ago