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Rlys resorted to 'window dressing' to better present operating ratio: CAG

The Comptroller and Auditor General of India on Wednesday hit out at the Railways

Ircon International wins contracts worth over Rs 400 cr from Railways

"Ircon International Limited has secured works of total 9 Road Over Bridges (ROBs) valuing more than Rs 400 crore from Ministry of Railways, Government of India," the company said in a filing

Railofy to provide air ticket if you don't get a confirmed railway seat

Railofay keeps tracking the passenger's waiting list tickets. If the passenger's ticket is not confirmed until the last minute, the app provides a flight ticket to the passenger

Indian Railways floats fresh tender for 44 Vande Bharat train sets

The Integral Coach Factory (ICF) in Chennai has floated the tender and the date of opening of tenders will be November 11

Clone trains to reach destinations 2-3 hours before parent trains: Report

"These trains will reach their destinations two to three hours in advance. That's how they have been planned," a senior official said

97 people died while travelling on Shramik Special trains: Piyush Goyal

Govt said that 97 people died on board Shramik Specials, admitting for the first time that migrant labourers lost their lives in the trains which were run to ferry them during the COVID-19 lockdown.

Indian Railways to allow private players for bullet train projects

The projects -Delhi-Varanasi, Mumbai-Nagpur, Delhi-Ahmedabad, Chennai-Mysore, Delhi-Amritsar, Mumbai-Hyderabad, and Varanasi-Howrah - are expected to cost around Rs 10 trillion

Indian Railways' clone train scheme: A friend of waitlisted passengers

These trains will be operated as an alternative to existing trains, when the actual trains will have a large number of waitlisted passengers

First 'Kisan Rail' between Bengaluru, Delhi to run from Sep 19 to Oct 19

The South Western Railway said that the first 'Kisan Rail' from Karnataka, between Bengaluru and Delhi, will run from September 19 to October 19

Southern Railway introduced 13 pairs of intra-state trains since Sept 7

Extension of services to Chennai has brought about an increase in patronage

Look past the near-term pain in IRCTC for its monopoly in Railways

While FY21 likely to be washout for IRCTC, the firm appears to have all the ingredients in place to see strong earnings growth over next 2-3 years, say analysts

Railway to soon link all Northeast state capitals, Bangladesh: Goyal

Indian Railways are working on connecting capitals of all eight northeastern states and also executing a project to link up with Bangladesh's railway networks, Railways Minister Piyush Goyal said

Southern Railway's Chennai Divn starts new service to map movement of goods

The time-tabled container services were introduced on August 20, and have been running daily between Chennai Harbour and Whitefield. Each way trip fetches a revenue of Rs 4.3 lakh

Lukewarm opening day for 80 special trains; avg occupancy less than 50%

Occupancy in trains originating from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal for journeys towards Karnataka and Telangana maintained an average occupancy of around 30 per cent

In new roles for restructured Railway Board, CEO to retain key portfolios

The Cabinet had earlier approved the restructuring of the Railway Board, whose strength has been cut from eight to five, as part of large scale reforms initiated by the national transporter

Rly freight revenue may revive in 5 months, passenger income in 9: Study

Railways' freight revenue is expected to recover within next four to five months, but passenger revenue may take over nine months to revive completely from the effects of the Covid, a study has found

Railway Protection Force busts illegal tickets booking racket, 50 arrested

The RPF busted an illegal train ticket booking racket with the arrest of 50 people, RPF Director-General, Arun Kumar said

Goyal urges industry to work with Railways in reducing cost of logistics

Railways Minister Piyush Goyal said there has been a transformation of railways and that the COVID-19 phase has been utilised to remove bottlenecks making policing changes and improving infrastructure

Railways achieves 31% of targeted capex in five months despite Covid-19

During the time of lockdown, the Railways increased the pace of infrastructure works, completing almost 200 projects that needed a traffic blockade

Prayagraj to house the nerve centre of automated goods train running system

Built by the French railway technology company Alstom, it will also host a 90-metre-long digital wall for train operation, said to be the second largest in Asia