Category: Railways

New Delhi, Over 41 crore people travelled by train till April 21, the Indian Railways said, highlighting the pressure on its operations and passenger services. “Indian Railways has carried 41.16 Crores passengers during April 1- 21. The last weekend — April 20 and 21 — witnessed 3.38 crores passengers taking train journeys to different destinations. […]

As many as 73 trains on the Ambala-Amritsar route were cancelled on Sunday as farmers continued to squat on tracks at the Shambhu railway station in Punjab’s Patiala district for the fifth day, officials said. The protestors have been demanding the release of three farmers arrested by the Haryana Police during the ongoing stir. A […]

New Delhi: To ensure the convenience of passengers and manage the anticipated surge in travel demand during summers, Indian Railways is operating a record-breaking 9,111 trips during summer season.

New Delhi: India has begun work on a home-built bullet train that will exceed 250 kilometres per hour (kmph), a top government official told ET. The official said it will be faster than any of the trains now running on the Indian Railways. “It is being built on the Vande Bharat platform that can already […]

Indian Railways is ready with a 100-day plan post-elections 2024. It includes a focus on various passenger-friendly measures, like a 24-hour ticket refund scheme, a comprehensive super App for various railways facilities, three economic corridors and sleeper Vande Bharat trains., government officials told ANI. The new ticket refund scheme will ensure refunds within 24 hours […]

Chandigarh/Ambala, Farmers under the banner of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (non-political) and Kisan Mazdoor Morcha on Wednesday squatted on a rail track in Patiala district near the Punjab and Haryana border, demanding the release of three farmers who had been arrested by the Haryana Police. The movement of more than 30 trains was impacted as […]

Ramkrishna Forgings Ltd on Monday said it has received an order of Rs 270 crore from a consortium led by BHEL to supply bogie frames of Vande Bharat train sets. The scope of the project involves the development and validation of the bogie frames for the sleeper version of the Vande Bharat train sets, Ramkrishna […]

NEW DELHI: Shares of Indian Railway Catering & Tourism Corporation Ltd. traded 2.51 per cent down in Monday’s trade at 01:08PM (IST). Around 563,062 shares changed hands on the counter. The stock opened at Rs 1036.5 and touched an intraday high and low of Rs 1047.6 and Rs 1018.45, respectively, in the session so far. […]

India will be able to beat America on one economic parameter: it will have a bullet train well before America does. President Joe Biden reportedly discussed with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Washington last week a plan to build the first high-speed rail in the US using Japanese bullet trains. The 380-km rail link […]

The Mumbai bench of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) has disposed of two separate insolvency resolution applications filed by State Bank of India and IDBI Bank against Mumbai Metro One. The borrower is a joint venture between Anil Ambani-promoted Reliance Infrastructure (RInfra) and Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority (MMRDA).

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in its manifesto promised one bullet tain each for north, south, and east India. As of now just one bullet train project – Ahmedabad to Mumbai – is under construction in the West India. Another bullet train project is set to be built in the Ahmedabad-Delhi route. Incidentally, this will […]

New Delhi: The Indian Railways is considering Internet of Things, new chemicals and standardised watering systems among tools to address a chronic complaint of passengers: smelly trains and station premises. A recent meeting of senior railway officials associated with maintenance and upkeep of trains discussed this issue, after the Railway Board flagged the large number […]