Freight Corridor on, Speed
Trains No
A high level committee
chaired by Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh rejected a
proposal to built a Bullet
Train network in the nation
for passenger traffic but
accepted the plan to built a
dedicated freight train
corridor at a projected cost
estimate of USD 5.06
billion.<More>
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Anti-Quota Struggle Expands,
Students Threaten Suicide
Students and doctors
protesting the quota-based
reservation system expanded
their protests to other
cities and intensified them
in New Delhi and Mumbai even
as a group of students wrote
to the President Abdul Kalam
seeking permission to commit
suicide.