Category: Railways

Indian Railways’ first pod hotel was inaugurated at Mumbai Central railway station on Wednesday by the minister of state for railways, Raosaheb Danve. The pod hotel, spread over an area of approximately 3000 square feet with a mezzanine floor, is located on the first floor of the station building at Mumbai Central and has 48 […]

Almost 100 per cent of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) workforce has received the Covid-19 vaccine, as per the DMRC. Many people in the workforce have received both doses of the vaccine while some of them are in the process of getting their second dose, said DMRC. About 0.5 per cent of employees are […]

PUNE The next time you travel from the Hadapsar railway station and need to board a train, simply drive your vehicle onto a platform allocated for drop-offs, and/or pickups, and gain easy access to the trains at the station. The idea of ‘platform parking’ comes from the Howrah railway station in Kolkata, where passengers can […]

The Railways Passenger Reservation System (PRS) will be shut for six hours during the “lean business” hours of the night for the next seven days, the ministry of railways announced on Sunday. The six-hour duration will be used to upgrade the system data with new train numbers and other relevant items in a bid to […]

Amritsar Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s Amritsar Rajya Sabha member Shwait Malik on Thursday presided over a high-level meeting of railway officials to take stock of ₹800 crore project for the beautification and overall development of the holy city’s railway station. Divisional railway manager (DRM) Dr Seema Sharma; senior divisional commercial manager Chetan Taneja; senior divisional […]

Since trains started operating normally after relaxation in Covid restrictions, the incidents of chain pulling and gate dashing are on rise in the Ferozpur Division of the Northern Railways. As many as 619 people have been arrested by railway police till October this year for pulling the chain and halting the train without a valid […]

With the culmination of the four-day Chhath Puja festivities on Thursday, people who returned to Bihar from other states to celebrate the festival at home will be returning to work. To facilitate their return journey, Indian Railways, which earlier operated festival specials for Diwali and Chhath Puja, will operate another set of special trains. These […]

PUNE Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders on Monday visited the Pune Metropolitian Region Development Authority (PMRDA) office and demanded that work on the Hinjewadi to Shivajinagar metro route begin within a week, or the part would launch an agitation. BJP members, under the leadership of MP Girish Bapat and Shivajinagar MLA Siddharth Shirole, met PMRDA […]

Chief minister Yogi Adityanath will flag off the trial run of Kanpur Metro on Wednesday, said district magistrate Kanpur Vishakh G Iyer. In his three hour long stay in the city, the chief minister would also review the Zika virus situation and the efforts underway to contain its spread. At present Kanpur has 106 cases […]

KOLKATA: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday told the Calcutta high court that, if ordered, it can probe the West Bengal government’s sale of its 47% stake in Metro Dairy to the project’s sole private partner which, a short while later, transferred 15% of its shares to a Singapore-based firm for a much […]

The Delhi government on Tuesday approved the construction of an integrated structure — comprising a flyover and a Metro track — to connect the proposed Metro stations of Yamuna Vihar and Bhajanpura in north-east Delhi and said the project, to be executed jointly by the public works department (PWD) and the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC), […]

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath will flag off the trial run of Kanpur Metro on Wednesday. The services of Kanpur Metro are expected to be opened for the public on December 31. The chief minister will stay in Kanpur for three hours, during which he will also review the Zika virus situation in the […]