Tag: Indian Railways

New Delhi: Railway passengers can now monitor the refund status of their cancelled tickets in real-time by logging on to a website launched by the Railways Ministry recently. The website ‘refund.indianrail.gov.in’ only requires the Passenger Name Record (PNR) numbers of travellers to reflect their refund status. “This facility is to promote transparency in the system […]

Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: A guidebook, which will serve as a framework document for dealing with the children rescued by the railways, was released by Railway Board Chairman Ashwani Lohani in New Delhi Wednesday. The “Guidebook for Creating a Child Friendly and Protective Environment for Children in Contact with Railways”, developed by the National Commission for Protection […]

Lucknow: With a view to strengthen security of women passengers in trains, the North Eastern Railway (NER) has planned to install ‘panic buttons’ in coaches as well as deploy women police personnel on trains during night hours. Since the railways is focusing on “women and child safety” this year, it plans deployment of women police […]

Bhubaneswar/Mumbai: With a view to clearing additional rush of passengers and also provide comfortable journey to the commuters during Summer Season, 2018, Ministry of Railways has decided to run over 400 Summer Special Trains towards different destinations of the country. Here’s the list of all the trains. Scroll down to get the details.. VISAKHAPATNAM-KIRANDUL VIA […]

Bhubaneswar/Mumbai: In order to clear extra rush of Passengers during the season, the Central Railways has announced to run as many as 452 summer special trains till July, 2018. The details of the trains have been provided below. Train No. 01115/01116 Lokmanya Tilak Terminus-Gorakhpur will run from April 7, 2018 to June 23 on every […]

If amount getting debited from customer account and ticket not issued, IRCTC will refund the entire Fare and IRCTC service charges electronically (as credit to the relevant credit /debit card account used for the transaction), but the bank/card transaction charges are likely to be forfeited. IRCTC’s payment reconciliation team works on a 24×7 basis, IRCTC […]

Indian Railways has come up with another tour plan for tourists – a 12-Day Gangtok Darjeeling Holiday Package for Rs 44,400. The AC Special Tourist Train is an all inclusive tour package covering important tourist places in the country and has been specially designed for LTC clients also. Booking for the same can be done […]

As per announcement made by the Indian Railways, it has been decided to revise Tatkal charges as given below. The Tatkal charges have been fixed as a percentage of fare at the rate of 10% of basic fare for second class and 30% of basic fare for all other classes subject to minimum and maximum […]

If your plan has been changed for a particular journey and you need to change the boarding station, you don’t have to get tensed any more as the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), Indian Railways e-ticketing website online, has come up with a new service for the passengers. Through a tweet, IRCTC recently […]

Bhubaneswar/Secunderabad: In order to clear extra rush of Passengers during summer season, the South Central Railway has decided to run as many as 100 special trains between Secunderabad-Raxaul, Secunderabad-Barauni, Secunderabad-Vijayawada, Secunderabad – Guwahati, Secunderabad – Darbhanga, Hyderabad – Raxaul and Kakinada Town-Raichur. Scroll down to see the list of trains and the schedule detailed below. […]

Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: Keeping mindful of latest rights and rules that passengers should be aware of when claiming refund on cancelled tickets is of utmost importance. Below are some of the most basic pointers to note while looking to reclaim your refund money. At present, train tickets can be cancelled across ticket counters, IRCTC website and […]

Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: Keeping in view the rush during the summer season, Railways has announced to run a few Summer Special Trains  as per the following programme — Scroll down to see the list of trains.. 03051/03052  Howrah-Jammu Tawi-Howrah  weekly summer special Train: ( 10  trips via Dankuni ) The  03051 Howrah-Jammu Tawi  weekly summer special […]

Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: Improvement of catering services is an on-going process. In its endeavour to provide quality and hygienic food to the passengers, a new Catering Policy has been issued on 27th February 2017. As per Catering Policy 2017, Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Limited (IRCTC) has been mandated to carry out the unbundling by creating […]

Bhubaneswar: With a view to clearing additional rush of passengers and also provide comfortable journey to the commuters during Summer Season, 2018, Ministry of Railways have decided to run 11 pairs of weekly & bi-weekly Summer Special Trains towards different destinations of the country from East Coast Railway (ECoR) jurisdiction by creating a number of […]

India's tally of COVID-19 infections rose by 39,097 in a day to reach 3,13,32,159, while 546 more people succumbed to the viral disease during the same period taking the death toll to 4,20,016 on Saturday, according to Union Health Ministry data.