These trains are going to run on the routes where there the demand for train services are higher than the existing capacity. The driver and guard of the trains will railway officials. The safety clearance of trains will be done by Railways only.

Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh chaired a high-level meeting in New Delhi on Tuesday to review the progress of various infrastructure projects under construction along India’s international borders.

India’s largest data centre building, Yotta NM1, the largest Tier-IV data centre, certified by Uptime Institute in Asia, and the second-largest in the world was inaugurated in the virtual presence of Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister for Communications, Electronics & Information Technology and Law & Justice, Govt. of India, Uddhav Thackeray, Chief Minister, Maharashtra and Subhash Desai, Minister of Industries and Mining, Govt. of Maharashtra.

Amitabh Kumar, Director General of Shipping & Additional Secretary to the Govt of India on Tuesday said that shipbuilding was a high priority area for the government and it was trying various methods to incentivise it.

In a significant move, the Ministry of Railways has invited request for qualification (RFQ) for private participation for operation of passenger train services on 109 origin-destination (OD) pairs of routes through introduction of 151 modern trains or rakes.

Faggan Singh Kulaste, Minister of State for Steel has assured the industry that the government was taking all necessary steps to reduce the logistics cost in India help the end users.

The Power Minister pointed out that from the data on item-wise quantum of imports in power sector given by Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence (DGCI), Department of Commerce it is seen that many types of equipment like transmission line towers, conductors, industrial electronics, capacitors, transformers, cables and insulators and fittings, etc.

Asia’s second-largest rail transporter, the Indian Railway has taken another major step to ease the procurement system in its network.

Raj Kumar Singh, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Power and New & Renewable Energy has indicated that the ministry may consider extending the Interstate Transmission System ISTS waiver for renewable energy projects by at least six months.