Tag: Railways

Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: In a significant move, the Indian Railways has decided to do away with the practice of pasting reservation charts on all trains at A1, A and B category stations on a pilot basis starting from March 1, an official statement from the ministry said on Friday. The railway ministry has directed its zones […]

Bhubaneswar/Alur (Karnataka): Skipper Govinda Poddar’s knock of 64 runs helped Odisha to beat Railways by two wickets in the Group A encounter of Vijay Hazare one-day cricket tournament at Alur in Karnataka. Odisha chased down the target of 213 runs in 47 overs in a nail-biting opening game to collect four crucial points. Odisha team […]

New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: The Centre has allocated Rs 5, 252 crore in the Union Budget -2018 for development of railway infrastructure in Odisha. It was known after the Ministry of Railways tabled the demand for grants for expenditure in the Lok Sabha today. Chief minister Naveen Patnaik had demanded Rs 6,500 crore this year for railways […]

Bhubaneswar: The East Coast Railway has decided to cancel and short terminate a few local passenger trains on 3rd December for modernisation work and launching of foot over bridge at Bhubaneswar New Station. Cuttack-Paradeep-Cuttack passenger, Cuttack-Bhadrak-Cuttack passenger will remain cancelled from both the directions. Similarly, on the same day, Palasa-Cuttack-Palasa passenger will run between Palasa […]

Bhubaneswar: Close on the heels of the decision by the Indian Railways to increase the speed of nearly 500 trains, the East Coast Railway (ECoR) on Thursday issued new time table for 56 trains. The changes in the timings will be effective from November 1, 2017. The new time table will have revised timings for […]

Bhubaneswar: The Railway Board on Sunday suspended four railway officials and sent the General Manager of Northern Railway RN Kulshrestha on leave in connection with the derailment of the Kalinga Utkal Express that killed at least 20 passengers. Based on prima facie evidence, a Junior Engineer (Permanent Way), a Senior Section Engineer (Permanent Way), an […]

Rayagada: After three days of flooding conditions due to heavy rains in Rayagada and nearby districts leading to damage of railway bridge between Therubali and Singapur Road and consequent disruption in railway services, the train traffic between Rayagada and Therubali has been restored with some restrictions today. Trains have been directed to follow strict rules […]

Puri: A lesser known fact of the Puri Rath Yatra is the role of the Railway administration behind the movement and traversing of the Raths (chariots) of the deities. Acknowledged as Rath Seva by the Railways, a team of mechanical staff and supervisors are deputed every year during the festival. A team of nearly 30 […]

Bhubaneswar: In a sharp reaction to Minister Of State for Railways Rajen Gohain, who recently held Odisha government responsible for the slow pace of railway project work in the State, Odisha Commerce and Transport minister Nrushingha Sahoo today passed the buck by blaming the Centre for inordinate delay in the projects. “The statement recently made […]

Bhubaneswar: The East Coast Railway (ECoR) and the South East Central Railways (SECR) have cancelled nine trains and rescheduled 20 trains between May 3 and 15 as due to repair work of rail tracks and modernisation of several railway stations coming under their zones. As per ECoR sources, work in connection with the commissioning of […]

Bhubaneswar: A Crime Branch team of Railway Police Force (RPF) started investigation into the case in which a transgender was pushed out of a moving train at Jajpur road recently. The investigating team met the victim, Anu, a resident of Habalganda village under Rajkanika block in Kendrapara district. She was interrogated by the team about […]

New Delhi: Timely availability of funding is delaying the completion of under-construction railway over bridges in Odisha, highlighted BJD’s Kendrapara MP, Baijayant Panda in Lok Sabha today. Citing that due to lack of over bridges, commuters at level crossings have to wait for as long as 30 minutes in some cases, Panda noted such long […]

New Delhi: The Railways has decided to run Guwahati-Chennai-Guwahati weekly Express, Dibrugarh-Chennai-Dibrugarh weekly Express, Howrah-Kanyakumari-Howrah weekly Express and Howrah-Tiruchirapalli-Howrah bi-weekly Express through the Cuttack Station instead of Naraj. In a press release, the Railways said keeping the long standing public demand in view, it has been decided that the four pairs of long distance trains […]

Bhubaneswar: Prevention of fire on train is only possible by educating the public especially passengers so that they can take precautions to prevent situations of potentially harmful fire thereby saving themselves. This is a proactive method of reducing fire incidents on train and the damage caused by them. To make the train journey safer, Railways […]

The Commissionerate police, which arrested an employee of East Coast Railway (ECoR) from Jharkhand today on the charge of defrauding Rs 22 lakh from five youths with a promise to provide them a job in the Railways, suspects involvement of a racket of some ECoR officers and staff in this shady deal