Category: Railways

Under pressure from passengers over hike in fares, the Railways on Friday issued an order to discontinue the ‘special’ tag for mail and express trains and revert to pre-pandemic ticket prices with immediate effect. Since the coronavirus-triggered lockdown was eased, the Railways has been running only special trains. It started with long-distance trains and now, […]

Seven coaches of a Bengaluru-bound train derailed near Dharmapuri in Tamil Nadu on Friday after boulders fell on it but all the 2,000-odd passengers were safe and nobody was injured in the incident, the Southern Railway said. The Kannur-Bengaluru Express had left from the former, in Kerala, at 6.05 PM on Thursday. “On date (Nov […]

Hindustan Construction Company NSE 0.50 % (HCC), in consortium with KEC International, has bagged a Rs1,309 crore order as a part of the second phase of Chennai Metro Rail, the Mumbai headquartered construction company said on Monday. This is the second order from the Chennai metro rail to the HCC-KEC JV, where HCC holds 51%. […]

Indian Railways is likely to roll out the third rake of the Vande Bharat Express by March next year, reports said Monday. “The shells of at least five Vande Bharat trains are in the final stages of completion. Electrics are expected to be fitted in a couple of months,” a senior official of the Indian […]

Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) has commenced a ‘Shri Ramayana Yatra’ train from Delhi, marking a gradual resumption of domestic tourism by trains in view of the improved Covid situation. The train, which was fully booked, left Delhi’s Safdarjung railway station at 6.30pm on Sunday, and more such ones would be run to […]

Over 52 lakh passengers who were on the waitlist after finalisation of seat reservation charts could not travel by trains in the first six months of the current fiscal, a query filed under RTI has found, indicating a need for more trains on busy routes. In the 2021-2022 financial year, till September 32,50,039 PNRs (passenger […]

Himalayan Railway (DHR) of Northeast Frontier Railway has become partner with digital payment platform Paytm. DHR and Paytm in a strategic partnership has launched QR-code based ticketing system for joyrides. Tourists in DHR can now book tickets for the Toy trains on the Paytm app for their journey.With this, DHR has now become the 1st […]

To promote religious tourism, the IRCTC NSE 1.48 % has planned a series of Shri Ramayana Yatra Tours, which will mark a gradual resumption of domestic tourism by trains in view of the improved COVID-19 situation. One such tour will begin from November 7, the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) said on Saturday. […]

Train services in the Ranaghat-Lalgola section of Sealdah division were disrupted for more than 24 hours owing to obstruction by a section of people at Jalalkhali Halt station in Nadia district, demanding stoppage of all trains passing through it, an Eastern Railway official said on Wednesday. The agitators, who have been squatting on the tracks […]

The railways on Monday said its freight loading for October 2021 surpassed last year’s loading and earnings for the same period. The railways’ loading in October was 117.34 million tonnes, — 7.63 per cent higher compared to last year’s loading (109.01 million tonnes) for the same period — it said. In this period, the Indian […]

Play the unlock trade through the hospitality space. One can look at Indian Hotels and Lemon Tree which are expected to do well over the next one year. VIP NSE 0.98 % is another stock one can bet on in luggage space, says Siddhartha Khemka, Head of Retail Research, MOFSL. The government showed willingness to […]

Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the local train services across West Bengal resumed with 50 per cent seating capacity on Sunday. Meanwhile, West Bengal reported 990 new COVID-19 cases and nine deaths in the last 24 hours. Earlier this week, the Central government asked the West Bengal government to take note of the rising cases […]