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India-Pak tensions: Essential services go extra mile to serve border states

National transporter Indian Railways was running special trains to handle increased traffic out of Jammu and Kashmir

oil marketing companies, Border tension, Indian Railways, India-Pakistan conflict, food services
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BS Reporters New Delhi/Mumbai/Chennai/Kolkata

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From railways and oil marketing companies to retailers, all were putting their best foot forward to ensure availability and constant supply in the wake of tensions between India and Pakistan.
 
Keeping transport lines open
 
National transporter Indian Railways was running special trains to handle increased traffic out of Jammu and Kashmir. Three specials — one train with 12 reserved and unreserved coaches, one 20-coach Vande Bharat train, and 22-coach fully reserved train, and a fully unreserved rake ran on Friday, according Himanshu Upadhyaya, chief public relations officer of the Northern Railway zone.
 
“There is no visible immediate change with regards

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