Dinesh Trivedi Rail Budget

• INSIGHT: Life and death on India's slow train to prosperity

  "The railways need money," says JN Shukla, a portly, bespectacled India Railways official who is travelling as a passenger this day.

• Clock is ticking for India's railway network, a vital but broken asset

  As the Kalka Mail train pulls into Delhi railway station at dawn, it is every man, woman and child for themselves. Before the train has stopped, crowds elbow and jostle into packed compartments destined for Kolkata, 1,500 km and 25 hours away on one of the largest, most decrepit and dangerous rail networks in the world.

• Range-bound Nifty trade seen on rollback worries

  Traders expect the Nifty to be range bound between 5,170 and 5,340 for the next few sessions

• Mamata was aware of the fare hike before Railway Budget: Sources

  In the midst of all the noise that she has made over demanding the removal of party man Dinesh Trivedi as Railways Minister over the hike in passenger fares, it has now emerged that Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee was reportedly aware of the proposed increase in rates before the Railways Budget.

• Dinesh Trivedi wants marching orders in writing from Mamata

  Dinesh Trivedi has refused to resign as Railways Minister till he receives orders in writing from his party chief, Mamata Banerjee. "Till the time the matter is absolutely clear, I have suggested I do not want to take anything verbal. For me, Parliament has more sanctity than anything.

• Remove Trivedi by end of today, says Mamata's party to Congress

  Mamata Banerjee has reportedly refused to wait till the end of March to have her own party's Dinesh Trivedi fired as Railways Minister. The Congress had told her on Thursday to wait till March 30, when Parliament takes a short break, because it wants to minimise the damage caused by Ms Banerjee's request while the union budget and other important l...

• Would do the same if asked to present budget again: Trivedi

  A day after he proposed a fare hike in the rail budget which has threatened his job, a defiant Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi today said he would repeat the same if he was asked to present the budget again.

• How UPA can survive without Mamata

  Mamata Banerjee might have cried wolf once too often and a weary Congress is said to be looking at other options to include in the UPA coalition that it leads. Mamata Banerjee has precipitated crisis after embarrassing crisis for the central government, based entirely on the certitude that her 19 MPs are crucial for the survival of the Congress-led...

• Is Dinesh Trivedi Railways Minister or not? Opposition asks govt to explain

  Like much of the country, the opposition today asked if Dinesh Trivedi is still the country's Railways Minister. Mr Trivedi's party, in a complete turnaround, said in Parliament today that it has not asked for Mr Trivedi's removal.

• Mamata wins, Dinesh Trivedi to resign, rollback fare hike: Sources

  Mamata Banerjee has proved that in its current state, the Congress cannot refuse any demand she presents. The Prime Minster will agree, say sources, that her own party colleague, Dinesh Trivedi, will be fired as Railways Minister. Sources also say Mr Trivedi is expected to resign shortly.

• Mamata wins, Dinesh Trivedi resigns, rollback of fare hike soon: Sources

  Mamata Banerjee has proved that in its current state, the Congress cannot refuse any demand she presents. The Prime Minster will agree, say sources, that her own party colleague, Dinesh Trivedi, will be fired as Railways Minister. Sources also say Mr Trivedi has sent in his resignation to the PM. Ms Banerjee is punishing Mr Trivedi for announcing a...

• Who is Dinesh Trivedi?

  The spiraldown from Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee's trusted pointsman in New Delhi to party outcast took Dinesh Trivedi but some months as Railway Minister and a bold rail budget.

• I will resign if asked to: Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi

  With his own party opposing the Railway Budget over fare hikes, Trinamool Congress MP and Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi tells NDTV that he doesn’t care if the rail budget costs him his job.

• Railway Budget 2012 highlights

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• Mamata Banerjee has her way, PM to sack Dinesh Trivedi: Sources

  The senior-most leaders of the Congress were forced into an emergency meet at the Prime Minister's house late tonight to discuss Mamata Banerjee's request to sack her party colleague, Dinesh Trivedi, as Railways Minister. Sources say the PM will accept Ms Banerjee's request; and her nominee Mukul Roy will replace Mr Trivedi in the Union cabinet.