Dinesh Trivedi Rail Budget

• 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.

• 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 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.

• 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.

• Full transcript: Dinesh Trivedi speaks to NDTV

  The railway minister today proposed the first hike in passenger fares in nine years and the highest ever annual plan outlay for the railways at Rs 60,100 crore, of which Rs 15,000 crore he said, would be from market borrowing.

• Full text of Dinesh Trivedi speech on Railway Budget 2012

  Dinesh Trivedi, presenting his first rail budget, had his task cut out. His focus, he said, was three-pronged: "Safety, safety, safety." Following very closely behind were consolidation, decongestion and modernisation.

• Resignation or rollback: Mamata's alleged ultimatum to Dinesh Trivedi

  Mamata Banerjee has created an unprecedented political controversy - her party today vowed to fight the nominal hike in train ticket fares announced, a decision made by its own minister Dinesh Trivedi. Not only is Mr Trivedi a senior leader from Ms Banerjee's party, the Trinamool Congress (TMC), but he is also her nominee to the union cabinet. The ...

• Highlights - No clue why my party reacted this way: Dinesh Trivedi to NDTV

  Dinesh Trivedi to NDTV after his party attacked the hike in fares for rail passengers announced by him today. His party chief, Mamata Banerjee said today that she will not accept this hike in fares. I will try and convince her, Mr Trivedi responded.

• Will try to convince Mamata about new passenger fares: Dinesh Trivedi to NDTV

  After Railways Minister Dinesh Trivedi announced a nominal hike in train ticket fares today - the first in nine years - sources say his party chief Mamata Banerjee has told him to either resign or roll back the increased prices. Publically she has said that the hike is not acceptable.