The Indian Railways is trying to deliver projects worth at least Rs 50,000 crore in the next eight months.

The Sagarmala project has made huge progress in the last three years, but funding is a big constraint.

Appealing for donations from people across the country, Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan today said the road to recovery for the southern state is going to be a long one.

Indian Railways plans to invest Rs 44,000 crore to build a 1,100-km greenfield freight corridor along the country's east coast to connect Kharagpur in West Bengal with Vijaywada in Andhra Pradesh.

One and a half decade after Vajpayee demitted office, he is today remembered as a leader who took forward India's telecom revolution, laid the foundation for massive infrastructure projects - road, rail and air, in a size and scale that matched the Nehruvian-era.

Renowned industrialists Kumar Mangalam Birla and Y.C. Deveshwar were on Wednesday appointed as non-official independent directors in Air India, an official order said.

The union finance ministry has reportedly given its approval for construction of five proposed metro projects in Indore, Bhopal, Kanpur, Agra, and Delhi at an estimated cost of Rs 1.07 lakh crore.

The construction of all the four lines is expected to cost more than Rs 2-lakh crore. The final location survey (FLS) is in progress and the Indian Railways is expected to submit the report to the defence ministry by 2020.

Some of the features of the new IRCTC website include convenient next generation interface, easy search queries, train search without login and probability of ticket confirmation.

Citing government officials, a Reuters report claims that the Japan-backed $17 billion project is likely to miss its December deadline to acquire land due to protests by fruit growers in Maharashtra.

In the last couple of years, Indian Railways has taken multiple initiatives to make train journey for passengers safer and faster. This year in February, it was reported that the Indian Railways is planning to construct 10,000 km of new high speed corridors to run trains at the speed of 200-250 kmph.

Both railways and transport ministry will work together and put the ambitious project on fast track.

Railways has similar plans for six more across metros that is estimated to fetch the national transporter Rs 10,000 crore in the current financial year.

While Goyal's tenure as the Finance Minister is going to be ephemeral, the former chartered accountant turned investment banker has already set the ball rolling to improve the financial health of country's public sector banks.

The circular attached with the tweet added that \"IRCTC has not initiated any recruitment in the recent past. Whenever recruitment is made same will be advertised in the newspaper as well as in the official IRCTC website.\"

The redevelopment plan has reportedly been assigned to the zonal railways with a one year deadline for completion.

The minister said that when the Prime Minister said 70 lakh new jobs were created, he was referring to the EPFO numbers.