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India to shift focus to railways from road transport in infrastructure push, say sources

NEW DELHI, Jan 20 (Reuters) – India will bump up spending on the modernisation of its railways in the upcoming federal budget while marginally increasing allocations to road building, two government sources said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has ramped up infrastructure spending, particularly on the road network, since the pandemic to drive economic growth, but execution challenges could see the focus shift to the railways, the sources said. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the 2025/26 budget on Feb. 1. The sources requested anonymity as they are not authorised to speak to the media about the budget discussions. India’s

Civic police volunteer gets life sentence for rape, murder of Kolkata junior doctor

KOLKATA, Jan 20 (Reuters) – An Indian court awarded the life sentence on Monday to a civic police volunteer convicted of the rape and murder of a junior doctor at the hospital where she worked in the eastern city of Kolkata, rejecting demands for the death penalty saying it was not a rare crime. The woman’s body was found in a classroom at the state-run R G Kar Medical College and Hospital on Aug. 9. Other doctors stayed off work for weeks to demand justice for her and better security at public hospitals, as the crime sparked national outrage over

Sanjay Roy sentenced to life imprisonment till death in rape, murder of RG Kar hospital doctor

Kolkata, Jan 20 (PTI) A Kolkata court sentenced Sanjay Roy to life imprisonment till death on Monday after he was convicted of rape and murder of an on-duty doctor at the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. The court of Additional District and Sessions Judge Anirban Das in Sealdah had on Saturday held Roy guilty of the crime committed against the postgraduate trainee doctor at the hospital on August 9 last year, which sparked off unprecedented and prolonged nationwide protests. Judge Das said the crime did not fall under the “rarest of the rare” category as justification for not

India’s NMDC to extract diamonds worth $3.4 mln from mine near tiger reserve

NEW DELHI, Jan 20 (Reuters) – India’s state-run miner NMDC is expected to extract 6,500 carats of diamonds, worth $3.4 million, this fiscal year from ores in a mine near a tiger reserve, after receiving mining clearances last year, two sources said. The miner faced delays in securing environmental clearances and had to halt mining for over three years at the Panna mine in the central state of Madhya Pradesh due to its proximity to the tiger reserve. The Supreme Court later permitted NMDC to mine, subject to certain guidelines, paving the way for the company to resume operations. NMDC,

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