Flexi fare is applicable to only 141 of 13,452 trains and overall occupancy of Rajdhani, Shatabdi and Duronto has registered a continuous increase since the launch of the scheme in September 2016, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal informed the Lok Sahba on Wednesday. Replying to a question on rising train fares, Goyal said flexi fare is applicable to 32 out of these 141 trains for nine months only. He said presently there is no proposal to discontinue the scheme as it has generated additional earnings of Rs 2,426 crore since its introduction until June 2019. pti
Over 2,100 URLs on social media blocked
Over 2,100 URLs (Uniform Resource Locators) were blocked on social media platforms in the first six months of 2019, Parliament was informed on Wednesday. A total of 633, 1,385 and 2,799 URLs were ordered for blocking in 2016, 2017 and 2018, respectively, Electronics and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said in a reply to the Lok Sabha. He said the number of URLs ordered for blocking stood at 2,163 till June this year. He said the government regularly interacts with social media platforms regarding the steps to be taken to make them safer. pti
43% decrease in cases of Naxal violence
The incidents of Naxal violence in the country have come down by 43 per cent in the past five years in comparison to the preceding five-year period, the government informed Rajya Sabha. Responding to a query, Minister of States (MoS) for Home G Kishan Reddy said following the government's steadfast policy, the geographical spread of Left Wing Extremism (LWE) has seen shrinkage, adding in 2018 cases of such violence were reported in only 60 districts. TNS
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