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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested the Mumbai Railway Recruitment Board Chairman S.M. Sharma and Railways Senior Divisional Personnel Officer G.Sethi, prime accused in the multi crore railway recruitment scam, here on Wednesday. Earlier in the month, the CBI had uncovered a railway recruitment scam, which happened during the examinations for the posts of [...]
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Youths are shying away from low-cost Yuva trains if Railway occupancy figures are any indication. Five months after its launch, the low-cost air conditioned Yuva trains have few takers. Despite the concessions available to unemployed youth and poor, only 118 boarded the Howrah-bound Yuva train against the total 3,774 seats available during its total 5 [...]
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The Railways have generated Rs.10044.54 crore of revenue earnings from commodity-wise freight traffic during April-May 2010 as compared to Rs. 9216.12 crore during the corresponding period last year, registering an increase of 8.99 per cent. Railways carried 146.41 million tonnes of commodity-wise freight traffic during April-May 2010 as compared to 141.63 million tonnes carried during [...]
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Jun 15 In Bihar, Maoists attacked on Ismailpur Railway station on Ghaya- Mughalsari railway section of the East-Central railway last night. AIR Patna correspondent reports that over hundred Maoists equipped with sophisticated weapons set records on fire. No casualty was reported in this incident. Rail traffic on the section has been stopped after this incident. A [...]
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Nine trains were cancelled, bus services were hit and trucks were stranded in several parts of Jharkhand on the first day of a two-day Maoist shutdown in three states on Monday, officials said. “As a precaution we have cancelled nine trains and some have been rescheduled,” KS Upadhyaya, the divisional railway manager of Dhanbad railway [...]
Tamil Nadu police has launched a manhunt for saboteurs responsible for the blast on the railway track taken by the Trichy-Chennai Rockfort Express on Saturday, near Perani Railway Station, in Villupuram district. The blast occurred at 2 am, ripping tracks and forming a three-foot crater just before the train entered Perani station, 70 km south [...]
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Users logging on to the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Limited (IRCTC) website to book train tickets in the past few days were dismayed as the servers were down. A few ticketing agents claimed that it became tedious to book etickets and passengers complained of excess money being debited while making payments. Suresh, a [...]
The total approximate earnings of Indian Railways on originating basis during April 1st and May 31st 2010 were INR 14714.04 crore compared to INR 13710.66 crore during the same period last year registering an increase of 7.32%. The total goods earnings have gone up from INR 9333.48 crore during April 1st and May 31st 2009 [...]
Soon more travellers will be able to board Rajdhani. Indian Railways Ahmedabad division has decided to increase the number of coaches in the Ahmedabad-Delhi Rajdhani train from 14 to 24 coaches. The officials from the Western Railways said that the Ahmedabad division has decided to lay a third track between Ahmedabad-Sabarmati exclusively for the northwards-bound [...]
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Porters will now charge you more to lug your luggage and other services they render. The porter charges have been hiked with effect from June 1. According to the revised charges, the rate for head load per trip will be Rs 25 for weight up to 40 kg. That’s an increase of Rs 5 from [...]