Bangalore: Indian Railways and Manipur entered the quarter-finals of second Hockey India Senior Men National Championship by registering hard-fought victories in their respective pools here. While the Railways overcame a talented Uttar Pradesh 3-1 to top pool F with an unbeaten record, a young Manipur side overcame Association of Indian Universities 4-3 to regoster their third win in pool H. Railways and Manipur have now joined defending champions Haryana (pool...
08:30 PM, Sep 28, 2012
New Delhi: Railways have no plans as yet to increase freight charges despite the steep hike in diesel prices which have put an additional burden of over Rs 1200 crores on it. "There is no move as yet to increase freight charges even if it (diesel price hike) hits us hard," said a senior Railway Ministry official. Railways consume about 250 crore litres of diesel per annum to run its...
03:49 PM, Sep 14, 2012
New Delhi: Passengers will soon be able to use smart cards for buying train tickets on the busy Delhi-Howrah and Delhi-Mumbai routes and also in the Kolkata Metro. "A pan-India multi-purpose smart card is going to be launched by railways in two most sought after routes on a pilot basis shortly and the modalities are being worked for it," said a senior Railway Ministry official involved in the project. Aptly...
04:57 PM, Sep 02, 2012
Mumbai: The familiar 1.2-km long nullah flowing underneath railway tracks on the Bandra-Khar stretch of the Western Railway network is making MP Priya Dutt see red. And shes not alone in her fury. Every monsoon, the shallow nullah 24-25, which has its final outfall in the Chamdavadi nullah, routinely inundates the railway tracks, disrupting train services and the lives of thousands of train commuters. This 1.2-km long nullah is about...
04:55 PM, Aug 28, 2012
New Delhi: After months of trials, Railways has decided against creating a new e-ticketing website and will instead revamp the existing IRCTC website portal with more user-friendly applications. "There were series of trials for launching a new e-ticketing site and in fact the new site was operational for a few days also. But we have to stop it as there are several functional problems," said a senior Railway Ministry official...
11:40 AM, Aug 12, 2012
Mumbai: The Government Railway Police (GRP) has started a new website, displaying figures of the number of men, women and transgenders who have fallen victim to railway accidents. This is the first time that transgenders have been included in the GRP administration statistics. According to GRP officers, they have been asked from their superiors to compile the list in three categories, male, female and transgender. The total number of accidents...
02:37 PM, Aug 11, 2012
In a shocking revelation, IBN Network and Cobrapost has exposed a nexus between rail ticket touts, police and railway officials wherein the touts are allowed to buy tickets in bulk against false names. ...
11:11 PM, Aug 10, 2012
New Delhi: In a shocking revelation, IBN Network and Cobrapost has exposed a nexus between rail ticket touts, police and railway officials wherein the touts are allowed to buy tickets in bulk against false names. In the sting operation conducted by IBN Network and Cobrapost, rail clerks have admitted on camera that they can get RAC and Waitlist tickets confirmed illegally. Also, RPF constables said on camera that policemen were...
10:20 PM, Aug 10, 2012
Kolkata: Asian Games gold medallist Pinki Pramanik, who was accused of gender misrepresentation and rape by her live-in partner, has rejoined her duty at the Sealdah Railway Station after the Eastern Railway revoked her suspension. The former middle-distance runner, who had got a relay gold at the Doha 2006 Asiad, on Thursday rejoined as a ticket collector in the station. "I feel relieved after the trauma which I had gone...
04:24 PM, Aug 10, 2012
Hyderabad: The South Central Railway will run 10 special trains between Hyderabad and Kolhapur. Accordingly Train No. 07143 Hyderabad-Kolhapur special train will depart Hyderabad at 11.10 pm on Aug 7, 8, 9, 11 and 12 and will arrive Kolhapur at 10.45 pm the next day. In the return direction, Train No 07144 Kolhapur-Hyderabad special train will depart Kolhapur at 07.30 am on Aug 9, 10, 11, 13 and 14 and...
01:40 PM, Aug 07, 2012
New Delhi: An inactive website of the Southern Railways www.southernrailway.gov.in has been defaced apparently by Pakistani hackers. The hacker group that calls itself 'Pak Cyber Pyrates' replaced the home page of the website with a page with content that denounces India's role in Kashmir. The official Southern Railways website moved to a new domain www.sr.indianrailways.gov.in back in 2010. Inactive websites are a soft target for hackers as they are not...
10:15 AM, Aug 07, 2012
New Delhi: Indian Railways on Thursday signed an agreement with Belgium to modernise and make some of the country's railway stations world class, said an official statement. "Indian and Belgian railways will benefit with mutual consultation and exchange of information services on development and modernisation of railway stations," Railway Minister Mukul Roy said after signing a Memorandum of Understanding with Belgian Deputy Prime Minister Didier Reynders, who is also Belgian...
12:48 AM, Aug 03, 2012
Gagan Narang shoots bronze at the London Olympics. Tamil Nadu Express catches fire killing at least 32 people. ...
11:55 PM, Jul 30, 2012
In an interview to IBN18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai, Sam Pitroda stressed on the need of the modernisation of Indian Railways. ...
11:40 PM, Jul 30, 2012
New Delhi: The new measures introduced by the Indian Railways with regard to the Tatkal train tickets reservation has come as a major relief to the common man. People have welcomed the new steps taken by the railway. Happy with the measures initiated by the Indian Railways on Tuesday, the passengers found it easier to get Tatkal tickets, which were being cornered by the touts. "I think the people will...
06:36 PM, Jul 10, 2012
Howrah: Terming the tenure of Mamata Banerjee as the 'golden phase' in the history of country's largest network, Railway Minister Mukul Roy on Sunday said all the projects being implemented now were planned by the TMC chief. "This is a phase when new trains are being introduced, line doubling work is carried on in several divisions, new projects are coming up. But all these had been planned by her, which...
11:02 AM, Jul 01, 2012
The Managing Director of the IRCTC, Rakesh Tandon has admitted that the Tatkal scheme is misused and needs a revamp. ...
09:18 AM, Jun 30, 2012
Railway plans special counters and timings for Tatkal bookings. Jundal says terrorists are planning aerial strike on India. ...
11:05 PM, Jun 29, 2012
The Railway is planning separate counters and timings for Tatkal bookings and has step up vigilance. ...
10:30 PM, Jun 29, 2012
New Delhi: An IBN7 expose has revealed the bitter truth about railway tatkal tickets. Despite waiting in line for hours, genuine passengers hardly have a shot as touts, including security personnel get their hands on the tickets first. In the national capital, the very force that promises to be with the people and for the people is looting the common man. At the Anand Vihar railway station, IBN7 met a...
08:29 AM, Jun 27, 2012
