Many contractual staff have criminal cases, police verification should be mandatory: Railway BoardThe Railway Board has mandated pre-employment police verification for all contractual catering and vending staff in Indian Railways. This d...
05 Sep, 2024, 08.18 PM IST
Odisha train tragedy: Only small number of passengers opted for insurance coverThe IRCTC has selected SBI General Insurance and Liberty General Insurance to offer the travel accident insurance cover. Those who reservee...
08 Jun, 2023, 03.52 PM IST
Railways denies data breach"On analysis of sample data, it is found that the sample data key pattern does not match with IRCTC history API. Reported/suspected data br...
30 Dec, 2022, 12.31 AM IST
Railway ministry denies IRCTC server data breach"All IRCTC Business Partners have been asked to immediately examine whether there is any data leakage from their end and apprise the result...
28 Dec, 2022, 08.33 PM IST
Data privacy: Here's why IRCTC scrapped plan to monetise passenger dataIndia's much awaited Personal Data Protection Bill, 2021, was withdrawn earlier this month by the government. The Bill also included data p...
27 Aug, 2022, 07.06 PM IST
Privacy concerns: IRCTC withdraws tender for hiring consultant to monetise passenger dataThe parliamentary panel had summoned officials of the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) following a PTI report on the...
26 Aug, 2022, 08.50 PM IST
Privacy concerns: IRCTC scraps passenger data monetisation planIRCTC was facing flak for floating an expression of interest (EOI) to rope in a consultant to explore avenues for passenger data monetisati...
26 Aug, 2022, 08.15 PM IST
Parliament panel calls IRCTC and Twitter officials over citizens' data security, privacyA parliamentary panel has called top officials of the Railways' catering arm IRCTC and is likely to question them about a tender floated by...
24 Aug, 2022, 05.37 PM IST
Data monetisation plan: Parliamentary panel calls IRCTC officialsAccording to a notice issued by the Lok Sabha secretariat, IRCTC officials are to brief the Standing Committee on Communications and Inform...
24 Aug, 2022, 02.43 PM IST
Railway passengers can “opt out” of IRCTC’s digital data monetisation planThey also said the activity will strictly stay within “the confines of the law.”
23 Aug, 2022, 06.00 AM 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
IRCTC pulls up Bajaj Allianz and Liberty General Insurance for data privacy issuesIRCTC said the security lapses were not at its end. It has further put the integration with these insurance companies on hold after the inc...
23 May, 2022, 08.12 PM IST
IRCTC wakes up after 2 years to fix its security bugIndia’s largest ecommerce website finally fixed the loophole that could hand hackers crucial personal data.
15 Nov, 2018, 04.02 PM IST
Government trying to tap IRCTC data: Former railway minister Dinesh TrivediIRCTC is one of the biggest e-commerce sites in the world. The Railway Ministry is working on a revamp plan before selling shares of IRCTC.
07 Aug, 2018, 03.40 PM IST
IRCTC disinvestment might lead to concerns over data privacyIRCTC website and other data channels of the railways collect 100 tetrabytes of passenger data every year.
24 Jul, 2018, 05.54 PM IST
Now, Railways to tell you if your ticket stands a chance of being confirmedCome midnight, the refurbished IRCTC website will be able to share this information with the help of a new algorithm that takes into accoun...
28 May, 2018, 09.10 PM IST
No service charge on train e-ticket till March 2018: Indian RailwaysThe government had waived service charges after demonetisation in November last year to encourage digital modes of booking.
03 Oct, 2017, 10.14 PM IST