NFR commissions more solar power plants
In a bid to minimise dependence of fossil fuels, Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) is taking steps to generate green energy by installing solar power plants across the zone.
Read MoreMay 4, 2022 | Others, Segment Focus, What's New
In a bid to minimise dependence of fossil fuels, Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) is taking steps to generate green energy by installing solar power plants across the zone.
Read MoreApril 25, 2022 | What's New
Reportedly, Indian Railways is planning to prepare a centralised heat map for its 68,000 km plus network using big data and artificial intelligence.
Read MoreMarch 22, 2022 | S & T, Segment Focus, What's New
In a notable development, high-speed free Wi-Fi internet facility is now available at 6,100 railway stations across the country.
Read MoreMarch 11, 2022 | What's New
In order to increase safety, Indian Railways and Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Limited are establishing real-time communication systems to minimise the damage caused by train derailments.
Read MoreMarch 8, 2022 | What's New
In another important development, digital payments company, Paytm, will be offering digital ticketing services to the consumers via Automatic Ticket Vending Machine (ATVM) across all railway stations in India, in collaboration with the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation.
Read MoreMarch 7, 2022 | What's New
In another important development, Kavach, an indigenously developed automatic train protection system, has successfully passed the anti-collision test in Hyderabad.
Read MoreFebruary 25, 2022 | What's New
Indian Railways (IR) is planning to add radio entertainment to the set of facilities offered by Shatabdi and Vande Bharat trains.
Read MoreFebruary 4, 2022 | What's New
In another development, Manipur has been successfully connected by freight train.
Read MoreJanuary 14, 2022 | What's New
Reportedly, RailTel is planning on creating edge data centres at railways premises across 102 locations (especially Tier-2 and Tier-3 towns).
Read MoreDecember 3, 2021 | Others, Segment Focus, What's New
IR is planning for installation of 71 MW solar energy projects on unused vacant railway land.
Read MoreNovember 22, 2021 | Rolling Stock, Segment Focus, What's New
In a bid to boost the tourism sector, IR is set to launch a set of nearly 190 theme-based trains called Bharat Gaurav trains.
Read MoreNovember 18, 2021 | What's New
Indian Railways (IR) has discontinued the ‘special’ tag for mail and express trains and reverted to pre-pandemic ticket prices.
Read MoreNovember 18, 2021 | What's New
The first ever pod hotel of Indian Railways was inaugurated at Mumbai Central railway station on November 17, 2021.
Read MoreNovember 16, 2021 | What's New
Reportedly, nearly 3.2 passenger name records (PNR) (against which 5.2 million passengers had bookings) which were in the wait status were auto-cancelled between April 2021 to September 2021.
Read MoreNovember 13, 2021 | What's New
Northeast Frontier Railway’s Himalayan railway (DHR) has partnered with digital payment platform Paytm.
Read MoreNovember 3, 2021 | What's New
Chennai-Mysore-Chennai shatabdi express becomes the first Southern Railway (SR) train to be certified by the Integrated Management Systems (IMS).
Read MoreNovember 2, 2021 | What's New
Alstom, a French multi-national firm, has conducted a meeting with Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation and Meghna Servo Drives Private Limited.
Read MoreNovember 1, 2021 | What's New
IR has been burdened with a bill of Rs 0.4 billion approximately from the Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI) for operating Kisan rails for a year at a 50 per cent rebate
Read MoreOctober 20, 2021 | What's New
In a bid to expedite the operation of goods trains and enable transportation of empty wagons to the loading point in the least possible time, IR has successfully operated two long haul freight trains Trishul and Garuda for the first time over South Central Railways.
Read MoreOctober 20, 2021 | What's New
Reportedly, the strategic sale of CONCOR will not be conducted in the current fiscal (2021-22) given that the railway land usage policy is yet to be finalised.
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