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Mamata will attend Badal swearning-in
Mamata stops Trivedi in his tracks
Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi today revised train fares across categories - ranging 8-22 per cent -after a gap of eight years. He had raised freight rates 20-25 per cent on March 6, expected to fetch the railways at least Rs 10,000 crore annually. Thus, though passenger traffic and freight traffic are expected to grow 5.4 per cent and 5.7 per cent, respectively, in 2012-13, the railways' gross traffic