India Intelligence Report
 

   News Analysis - May 22, 2006

 
  • 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.

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