In a relief for people travelling long distances, the Indian Railways is set to resume serving cooked meals on trains, a service which was discontinued in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
The sector is witnessing weak tendering.
The minister said a premium service for container movement with assured transit time was under consideration for time sensitive cargo.
Readers reminisce their bitter sweet experiences of ordering meals in the Indian Railways.
Last week, Railway Minister Mukul Roy had written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is now looking after the Finance portfolio, requesting him not to introduce service tax on passenger fare and freight traffic from July 1.
A round-up of the Ranji Trophy matches played on Saturday.
He will recommend innovative methods and processes for the improvement.
The prototype, which may cost around Rs 30,000, is now awaiting Indian Council of Medical Research clearance to go into production, the Railways said.
Budget is likely to focus on infrastructure creation in the N-E
To begin with, four Jan Ahar outlets are going to be operational at Howrah, Bangalore, Chennai and Secunderabad stations this month. Seven more will be launched at different stations, including Patna, New Jalpaiguri, Lucknow and Mysore next month.
A total of 1,177 passengers are booked on the New Delhi-Bilaspur special train, which departed at 4 pm, while 1,122 passengers are booked on the New Delhi-Dibrugarh special train that departed at 4:45 pm.
The losses ranged between Rs 33,204 and Rs 10,90,480.
The bus service was suspended after authorities in PoK did not respond to call from their Indian counterparts.
Successive plans have allocated less resources to the Railways.
There is no hacking nor any leakage of IRCTC ticketing website and everything is safe, railway board member (Traffic) Mohd Jamshed told PTI.
Diesel prices for the Railways have come down from Rs 60.08 a litre in June to Rs 50.51 a litre now.
New service will also make waitlisted tickets a thing of the past.
Envisioning and implementing a Railway innovation programme needs attitude training and skill impartation, says R Gopalakrishnan.
Indian Railways is in talks with Reliance Jio Infocomm to allow the Mukesh Ambani-led telecom major's use of its towers. The aim is seamless mobile and internet connectivity for passengers along the 67,368-km of tracks. The Railway Board has entrusted its RailTel Corporation arm to work on the modalities with Jio. The Jio tie-up is expected to bring down its telecom bill by at least 35 per cent from this financial year.
A passenger at Delhi airport said that most of the flights are delayed.
The Railways is expected to mobilise a substantial chunk of funds through dynamic pricing.
Passenger trains on the snow-covered Baramulla-Qazigund railway track, near Srinagar, after train services resumed in the valley following heavy snowfall, January 10, 2022.
Railway hospitals will offer postgraduate courses for medical students.
Ministers may come and ministers may go but the attitude of the RB remains the same forever, and it is this group that really calls the shots in Indian Railways, says S Pushpavanam.
Livid at being ignored for elections to put together a new federation on Sunday, two of Indian boxing's biggest stakeholders -- Railways and Services Sports Control Board -- have lodged a protest with the Sports Ministry. Neither Railways Sports Promotion Board (RSPB) nor the Services Sports Control Board (SSCB) will be a part of the election process to constitute the Boxing Federation of India even though they have a vote each.
Southern Railway however clarified that the issue was the result of a particular user selecting Hindi as the preferred language while registering in the IRCTC website. 'Language is an option in e-ticketing,' a Southern Railway release said.
Indian Railways is currently implementing a project that involves laying of a broad gauge line connecting Nangaldam to Talwara in Himachal Pradesh.
This comes as IR posted its worst operating ratio (money spent to earn every Rs 100) in 16 years, at 96.9 in 2016-17.
Locally manufactured coaches can achieve similar speeds as Talgo trains.
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Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu has promised to have an effective complaint redress system and bring about accountability on the part of officers in rail functioning.
RLDA is a statutory authority established by the ministry of railways for generating non-fare revenue from railway land.
A historic railway service flounders for an inflexible privatisation policy.
While Uttar Pradesh has allowed 837 trains, Bihar has permitted 428 and Madhya Pradesh more than 100.
Indian Railways has to up investment to strengthen network just like China and Russia.
Every twist and turn in KMC's civil service career is attributed to serendipity, an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident. He plays down his capabilities, which took him to the top of the civil service as the Cabinet Secretary or his misfortune in losing a daughter in her prime and suggests that his career was indeed serendipitous, observes Ambassador T P Sreenivasan.
Hitting out at the previous National Democratic Alliance government for poor performance of the railways and inability to pay even Rs 2,473 crore (Rs 24.73 billion) dividend, Prasad said when the United Progressive Alliance government completes its term next year the Railways would have a total surplus of about Rs 1,00,000 crore. It has already generated a surplus of Rs 69,000 crore (Rs 690 billion) in the past four years.
Adding petrol and diesel to GST was a challenging task due to their significant role as revenue generators for both the central and state governments.
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Railway Board Chairman Arunendra Kumar said the discussions at the day-long meet involved an overview of five models of participative policy, framework of engineering, procurement and construction contracts and sectoral guidelines for foreign and domestic investment.
Delhi-based Jasmeet Singh Sandhu, an Indian Revenue Service officer, has secured third position in the test.
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