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IRCTC cancelled train today, 18 Aug: Over 130 trains cancelled in India

IRCTC cancelled 132 trains and partially cancelled 20 trains today. Read this article to know everything about cancelled, rescheduled, diverted, or source-changed trains on August 18, Thursday

IRCTC cancelled train today, 17 Aug: More than 105 trains cancelled today

Indian Railways cancelled 109 trains, while partially cancelled 20 trains on Wednesday, August 17. 11 trains have been rescheduled, whereas 12 have been diverted. Read this article to know more

Trains Cancelled Today, 12 Aug: Railways cancels 151 trains on Friday

Indian Railways have been going through a schedule crisis. On Friday, August 12, IRCTC reschedules 17 trains, diverts 21, and fully cancels 151 trains till 9 am, August 12, 2022.

Trains Cancelled Today, 11 Aug: Indian Railways cancels 149 trains

Indian Railways deems to cancel up to 170 trains on August 11. Currently, 149 trains have been cancelled, 15 rescheduled and 8 diverted. Read this article to know if your train is running late or not

Trains Cancelled Today, 10 Aug: IRCTC cancels 152 trains due to rainfall

Indian Railways cancels 152, rescheduled 14, diverts 11 and changed the source of 11 trains on August 10. Check out this article to know if your train is running on time.

Southern Railway saves around Rs 55 crore by tapping solar, wind power

The Southern Railway on Friday said it has managed to save Rs 54.99 crore by harnessing alternate sources of energy in its bid to reduce carbon footprint. With a generation of 91.56 million units of wind power that lead to cumulative savings of Rs 48.54 crore, Southern Railway said through solar energy it managed to save Rs 6.45 crore by generating 16.30 million units of solar power from 2017 till July 2022. "Substantial energy savings has been made possible through erection of wind mills", Southern Railway said in a press release. Since the installation of solar plant in 2017-18, the cumulative solar energy generated was 16.30 million units up to June 2022, thereby saving Rs 6.45 crore. The solar power panels have been installed at various locations across the region and Southern Railway said it was working towards increasing capacity of solar plants. The famous Dr MGR Chennai Central Railway Station has become the first station in the region to take care of 100 per cent of its d

Railways freight transport up 8% in July as it carries coal nationwide

The transporter has recorded 11 per cent increase in cumulative freight loading this financial year

No proposal yet for running passenger trains by private operators: Railways

There is no proposal under consideration for the operation of passenger trains by private players, the railways informed Parliament Friday, years after the national transporter unveiled plans to hand over certain routes to private parties. In a written reply in Rajya Sabha, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said the railways currently has no proposals in this regard. The national transporter planned to introduce private trains on its network in phases, with the first dozen due to start running in the 2023-24 financial year and all 151 by 2027. However, only two bidders, IRCTC and Megha Engineering & Infrastructures, evinced interest at the financial bidding stage. This has now led to the whole proposal being put on the back burner because of lack of interest among private players.

Mumbai's CSMT facelift plan back to drawing board due to railway revamp

The project, which had received bids from Adani, Oberoi and GMR, goes back to drawing board after abrupt shutdown of nodal agency; station will now be developed under BOT mode

Expense on manpower unsustainable; surrender posts: Railway board to zones

The employees in such posts should be redeployed where there is a need for manpower and, if required, some of the work can be outsourced, the board has said

Taking over from IRCTC, railways to open over 100 food plazas at stations

With the IRCTC failing to set up such units, causing huge losses in revenue for the railways, it has now been decided to hand over this responsibility to zonal railways

Railway Board forms panel to examine budgetary allocation, merger of funds

Focus towards minimising overlaps in fund purpose

Railway ministry resumes consultation on private train operations

The consultations gained relevance after the Railway Board had to scrap the first bid round due to lacklustre participation

52-km-long Bengal-Sikkim rail link to be operational by Dec 2023: Railways

Construction of the rail line, which will have six stations, started in 2009 when West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was the railway minister.

Railway Board issues order to resume serving cooked meals on trains

The Railway Board has issued an order to resume serving cooked meals to passengers on trains, a service that was discontinued due to COVID-19 restrictions. The Railway Board, in a letter on Friday, asked the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) to resume the service. Ready-to-eat meals will also continue to be served to passengers, the Railway board also said. "In view of the restoration of normal train services, requirements of travelling passengers and easing of Covid lockdown restrictions in eateries, restaurants, hotels and such other places across the country, it has been decided by the Ministry of Railways to resume the services of cooked food in trains. Service of ready-to-eat meals will also continue," the letter stated. Earlier this month, the Railways had announced the running of normal trains, withdrawing the special tag which had been in place for the pandemic.

Railway board shuts down RLDA-RITES-Ircon JV on Sanjeev Sanyal's advice

Station modernisation and redevelopment goes back to Zonal Railways

No state has asked to stop train services: Railway Board chairman

No state has asked the railways to stop any train service yet, Railway Board Chairman Suneet Sharma said on Friday

We're running more trains to meet rush on some routes: Railway Board chief

Odisha and Uttarakhand propose Covid-19 negative certificates from inbound train passengers

No plan to stop or curtail train services: Railway board chairman

"There is no cause for alarm. We can run trains immediately on demand if there is any rush," Suneet Sharma said

Current fiscal 'most challenging' for Indian Railways: Piyush Goyal

During the lockdown, all services of the railways had come to a grinding halt and even now, only special trains are plying