Tag: Piyush Goyal

Train services in Kashmir to resume from Tuesday: Piyush Goyal

Train services in Kashmir valley were stopped ahead of the abrogation of Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir.

November 11, 2019

Bigots blinded by hatred, Indians proud of your work: Rahul Gandhi slams Piyush Goyal while defending Nobel Laureate

Earlier, on Friday Union minister of Commerce and Industries Piyush Goyal dubbed Indian-American Abhijit Banerjee, who won the 2019 Nobel for Economics, as Left-leaning.

October 20, 2019

Indian Railways to right-size Railway Board by 25%, transfer 50 employees: Reports

The plan was first mooted in 2000 by the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government, which recommended right sizing of the apex decision making body of the national transporter.

October 20, 2019

Government’s job is to improve economy, not to run ‘comedy circus’: Priyanka Gandhi Vadra

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra lashed out at Union Minister Piyush Goyal for his remark on Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee, saying that the government's job is to improve economy and not to run 'comedy circus'.

October 20, 2019

Mass movement needed against those stopping development in country: Piyush Goyal

He said that he was willing to go on a public platform with folded hands to plead to the NGOs against impeding development projects.

October 20, 2019

Piyush Goyal says Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee is ‘Left-leaning’

Goyal made the remarks at a media briefing held at Pune where he went to campaign for BJP for the upcoming Assembly elections.

October 18, 2019

Piyush Goyal encourages filmmakers to use railways for promotion

In a special train called Housefull 4 Express, a special team of the upcoming film 'Housefull 4' was travelling from Mumbai to Delhi for the promotion of the movie.

October 17, 2019

Domestic help arrested in theft case at Piyush Goyal’s Mumbai home

The accused, Vishnu Kumar, who is from Delhi, was also booked under the IT Act for allegedly sharing information from a computer in the house with unidentified persons.

October 3, 2019

Three Rajasthan stations lead railways’ cleanliness survey

Railways have been conducting third party audit and cleanliness ranking of 407 major stations annually since 2016. This year the survey was expanded to 720 stations and suburban stations were also included for the first time.

October 2, 2019

Fact, fiction, figures

Those falling are private final consumption expenditure, down from 7.3 per cent in 2018 to 3.1 per cent in 2019; gross fixed capital formation, down from 13.3 per cent to four per cent; exports, down from 10.2 per cent to 5.7 per cent; imports from 11 per cent to 4.2 per cent and, of course, the GDP, down from eight per cent to five per cent.

September 21, 2019

‘Weird statements won’t lead to betterment of economy’: Yashwant Sinha

Sinha asked, "If companies like Ola and Uber caused a drop in passenger vehicle sales, then why there is a slowdown in sales of two-wheelers and trucks?"

September 15, 2019

Export of 19-20% needed to achieve $5 trillion economy: Piyush Goyal

In order to reach the 5-trillion-dollar economy mark as envisaged by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India must try to bring back the 19-20 per cent export growth.

September 12, 2019

Malda Division of Eastern Railways launches drive to create water bodies on vacant railway land

Talking to The Statesman, Mr. Prashant Kumar Mishra, chief workshop engineer of Eastern Railways, who is also holding the additional charge of divisional railway manager (DRM) of Malda Division informed that old embankments are being strengthened, slope, erosion, subsidence of embarkments are being attended to.

September 1, 2019

Former finance minister and BJP leader Arun Jaitley passes away at 66

A lawyer by profession, Jaitley had been an important part in Narendra Modi's Cabinet during his first tenure as prime minister, holding the finance and defence portfolios.

August 24, 2019

No plan to raise rail fares for now: Goyal

Goyal also said consumption of diesel by the Railways has been coming down over the years as it was moving to electric traction and there is a plan for 100 per cent electrification by 2022.

July 26, 2019

Howrah Railway Press employees to meet minister Piyush Goyal

The decision to close the Press has come from the Centre, which has been taken in accordance with the policy to outsource the non-core activities like the Railway Press.

July 24, 2019

Piyush Goyal launches Global Innovation Index in New Delhi

According to the ministry, this is for the first time that the GII is being launched in an emerging economy.

July 24, 2019