The indigenously-built Vande Bharat Express has completed one lakh running kilometres without missing a single trip, officials said on Thursday. A senior Railway Ministry official told IANS: “The Vande Bharat Express, which was flagged off by Prime Minister Narendra Modi from New Delhi to Varanasi on February 15, clocked one lakh running kilometres on Wednesday Read More
A coach of a passenger train derailed near the Vadlamannadu railway station in Andhra Pradesh after hitting a buffalo on Tuesday evening, an official said. No casualty was reported in the derailment incident. Gudlavalleru Sub-Inspector P Vijaya Kumar said the Vijayawada-Machilipatnam passenger train had hit a buffalo near the station, leading to the derailment of Read More
Indian Railways enables passengers to book monthly, multiple journey tickets for frequent travel on one route. A season ticket is valid for multiple journeys over a particular period of time, such as monthly season tickets (MST). Season train tickets are valid for travel up to 150 kilometres on first- and second-class bookings, according to the Read More
Two persons, one of whom claimed he was a personal assistant of West Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh, were arrested from Asansol railway station on Monday, following the seizure of unaccounted cash amounting to Rs. 1 crore from their possession, railway police sources said. Gautam Chattopadhyaya and Lakshmikant Shaw were intercepted by the railway police at Read More
Railway Recruitment Boards (RRBs) have released new dates for the aptitude test for Assistant Loco Pilot and Technician in Odisha. The examination was scheduled on May 10 but was postponed on account of the Cyclone Fani. The Computer Based Aptitude Test (CBAT) for Assistant Loco Pilot and Technician will now be held on May 21 for all Read More
Railway Recruitment Boards (RRB) have postponed the aptitude test for Assistant Loco Pilot and Technician in Odisha particularly in the towns of Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Berhampur and Sambalpur under the jurisdiction of Railway Recruitment/ Bhubaneswar and in the town of Balasore only under the jurisdiction of Railway Recruitment Board/ Kolkata. However in Rourkela, the exam will be held Read More
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached cash worth Rs. 89.68 lakh in a money laundering case involving the nephew of Congress leader and former railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal. The ED, in a statement, said it has issued a provisional order under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) to freeze the “bribe” money, which according to Read More
The Northern Railway has cancelled about 287 trains passing through the East Coast Railway zone after damage to infrastructure due to Cyclone Fani, including Puri-Haridwar Utkal Express and Bhuvneswer-New Delhi Rajdhani Express, railways said Sunday. “These mail/express trains include those originating, ending their destinations at or passing through ECoR jurisdiction. Nine trains have been diverted, Read More
The Railways will resume all train services from Bhubaneshwar on Sunday, except two, and it has already cleared the Howrah-Chennai mainline, barely 24 hours after Cyclone Fani hit Odisha, officials said. Two trains originating from Bhubaneshwar will remain cancelled and all services to Puri are unlikely to begin before May 10. Bhubaneshwar-Tirupati and Vidakhapatnam Intercity Read More
The North Central Railway, a sub-division of Indian Railways, has revised the timings of Mumbai Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (Mumbai CSMT)-Hazrat Nizamuddin Rajdhani Express Train with effect from April 17. The Mumbai CSMT-Hazrat Nizamuddin Rajdhani Express is a new Rajdhani Express train service that connects Mumbai and Delhi, apart from the existing Mumbai Rajdhani and Read More
IRCTC or Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation offers a quota of ‘Premium Tatkal’ for online ticket bookings on its official website- irctc.co.in and mobile app. ‘Premium Tatkal’ quota has a dynamic fare pricing structure, which means that the fare component may be increased with the subsequent bookings, according to IRCTC’s website. Booking Premium Tatkal (PT) ticket is costlier than Read More
Indian Railways has decided to operate its New Delhi Amritsar Shatabdi train service connecting Delhi with Amritsar with LHB or Linke Hofmann Busch coaches for about two months. Shatabdi Express trains 12031 and 12032, operating between New Delhi and Amritsar will be run with the LHB set of coaches for the next two months, the Read More
Quick to seize on the fevered anticipation for the final season of “Game of Thrones”, the Election Commission, the Press Information Bureau and even the Congress are using popular references from the hit HBO series to make themselves heard in poll season. As the war between the seven kingdoms for the Iron Throne in Westeros Read More
Union Minister for Railways Piyush Goyal on Friday took a jibe at the Congress party and its president Rahul Gandhi for talking of a “surgical strike” on poverty. The Union Minister said that he has been listening to this from the Gandhi family since he (Goyal) was seven years old. “I was only seven years Read More
Train tickets with photographs of Prime Minister Narendra Modi are still being sold in Uttar Pradesh in the middle of the Lok Sabha elections, even after the Indian Railways said it would withdraw them following allegations of poll code violation. The tickets, which carry PM Modi’s photo and details of government schemes, remain in circulation, a Read More
RRB Group D 2019 or RRC Group D 2019 online registration for more than 1 lakh jobs will be concluded tomorrow. RRC Group C job notification released by the Railway Recruitment Cells (RRC) and the registration process can be completed on the official website of the RRCs. RRB Group D 2019 online registration will be open till Read More
The Indian Railways has registered its best safety figures in almost four decades in 2018-2019 till March, data has shown. The number of consequential accidents has come down from 1,130 in 1980-81 to mere 59 (94.8 per cent reduction) in 2018-19. During the same period, the fatality figure has come down from 658 in 1981-82 Read More
Microsoft said on Thursday it will deploy its Kaizala productivity app to connect three crore employees of Indian Railways across the country with quality healthcare facilities. The serving and retired employees will be able to avail healthcare services at 125 railway and 133 private recognised hospitals. The Kaizala group managed by doctors from South Central Railways will Read More
State-owned Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd’s initial public offering (IPO) to raise Rs. 482 crore ($70.45 million) was fully subscribed at the end of the book-running process, stock exchange data showed on Wednesday. Investors bid for about 458 million shares in the company, which undertakes railway projects, or 1.8 times the 253.5 million shares on offer, as of 6 pm. The share Read More
RRBs are yet to announce the examination date for the RRB Junior Engineer (JE) recruitment process. Any notification or update regarding the RRB JE exam date is fake. The fake notice doing the rounds mention May 27 as the starting date for RRB JE 1st stage CBT. The notice also says that RRBs would activate link Read More
