Army's Sudarshan Chakra Corps conducts 'Swavlamban Shakti' exerciseThe Sudarshan Chakra Corps of the Indian Army's Southern Command is conducting 'Exercise SWAVLAMBAN SHAKTI' at Babina Field Firing Ranges. ...
18 Oct, 2024, 09.42 PM IST
Indian railways to operate 6,556 special trains for Durga Puja, Diwali, and Chhath PujaIndia's Railways will run 6,556 special trains from October 1 to November 30 to meet the travel demand during festive times including Durga...
07 Oct, 2024, 08.55 PM IST
Act against officials for wrong train data in passenger information systems: Railway Board to zonesThe Railway Board mandates all zones to integrate passenger information systems with the NTES for accurate train data display and take acti...
06 Oct, 2024, 08.30 PM IST
India’s cities will up their contribution to GDP by at least 6% if allowed to ply business 24×7Even as the GoI-led city renewal initiatives target to promote urbanisation, certain policy changes, especially at the state level, can giv...
09 Feb, 2023, 11.05 PM IST
Indian Railways cancels 178 trains today; check to see full listTickets booked via the IRCTC website will be cancelled automatically and a refund will be initiated in the user’s accounts. Passengers who ...
09 Nov, 2022, 03.22 PM IST
Indian Railways' big plan to monetise passenger data raises privacy fears, may be shelvedThe IRCTC has over 10 crore users, 7.5 crore of them being active users. The plan was to entail studying the data captured by various publi...
20 Aug, 2022, 11.48 AM IST
CAG finds bullet train already running in Uttar Pradeshincorrect data were detected in a recent audit of the Indian Railways by the Comptroller and Auditor-General.
26 Jul, 2018, 10.57 AM IST
Railways reservation system to be suspended temporarily for 3 hours on this weekendThe services will be closed from 10.30 pm on May 5 to 12.15 am on May 6 and again from 05.15 am to 06.25 am the same day, an official state...
05 May, 2018, 10.46 AM IST
Why fog delays didn’t trigger chaos at railway stationThis service was conceived by Delhi division of NR in Sept and commissioned through the Centre for Railway Information Systems in Nov, befo...
13 Jan, 2018, 06.46 PM IST
Railways fudge data to show punctualityFor instance, a train may arrive at Chennai Central station 10 minutes late, but the data entry operator may log it as the right time, show...
26 Dec, 2017, 11.06 AM IST
In Bengaluru, passengers bank on WhatsApp for real-time train updatesIn the absence of instant information on trains (arrival and departure), users have created WhatsApp groups for real-time information.
21 Nov, 2017, 10.43 AM IST
From June, a mega app to answer all your rail-related queriesThe Railways often finds itself flooded with complaints from passengers about not getting reliable information on train running status, esp...
23 Apr, 2017, 11.33 AM IST
Check train delays or face action: Suresh Prabhu to officialsThe punctuality rate has deteriorated further to 79 per cent during April 1-16 period, as compared to 84 per cent in the corresponding peri...
18 Apr, 2017, 05.43 PM IST
Southern Railway launches SMS facility to know train platform numberPassengers will be able to know the platform number on which their respective trains would arrive or depart by message on mobile as per the...
18 Mar, 2016, 10.15 PM IST
CRIS launches App on Android platform for train enquiryOne of the best features of the app is "spot your train" which provides information such as its current position and expected time of arriv...
22 Oct, 2014, 06.12 PM IST
Indian railways' app tracks train schedules on Windows 8 smartphonesThis is the first version of the app released by Indian railways and an Android version is expected soon.
25 Apr, 2014, 03.29 PM IST
Indian Railways launches new mobile app to track train schedulesCRIS, the information and technology arm of railways, has launched a new mobile application which can be used for various enquiries includi...
23 Apr, 2014, 03.27 PM IST