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Waiting for Maha govt's reply to penalise plastic ban violators: Railways

The CR and the WR said they have already installed plastic bottle crushing machines at some stations on a pilot basis

Looking for a job in railways? Contractual hiring is on for some categories

Zonal heads have been authorised finalise the recruitments in consultation with concerned departments

Railways to have disposal towels in AC class; no reuse to help save costs

The instructions say towels will have a minimum 50% of cotton and be of 'spunlace non-woven material, with a size of 40 cm x 30 cm

Train travel with your own bedroom in these luxury Indian saloon coaches

Each coach comes with two AC bedroom, a dining-cum-hall and a kitchen; but the ride is expensive, at 18 times the first-class fare

Travelling on Uday Express? Check out its new snack vending machines

While only cash payment option is available at present, cashless transactions will be allowed in the days to come

Frustrated by long train delays? Railways has a plan to cheer you up

The Railways will provide free meals and refreshments to the passengers travelling on reserved tickets if the train gets delayed on Sunday

Railways to procure 100,000 wagons for Rs 200-250 billion in 5 yrs

With 100% electrification, poised to become a net zero carbon emitter by 2030

Railways to become 'net zero carbon emitter' by 2030: Piyush Goyal

Speaking at an event, Goyal said that the national transporter was going green in a big way

After spending billions on 'flawed' bio-toilets, Railways mulls replacement

In 2007, an experts committee headed by Vinod Tare, a professor at IIT, Kanpur, had concluded that bio-toilets developed by the DRDO were not workable

Ups and downs in the Railways

There are several chapters that transcend the personal and have insights about railway policy - dishonesty and falsification of records, safety and corruption

JSPL to Adani Logistics, private sector bigwigs join Railways wagon scheme

The railways through its Indian Railway Finance Corporation (IRFC) arm leases out general purpose vehicles on a rental scheme

Indian Railways set to repaint 30,000 Mail, Express coaches in new colour

The freshly-painted Delhi-Pathankot Express with 16 coaches will be the first train to be rolled out, by this month-end, with the new colour scheme developed by the in-house team of Northern Railway

Railways to issue credit card-like medical cards to employees, retirees

Currently, railway has around 1.3 million employees and around the same number of pensioners

'Mystery shoppers' to MADAD: How Railways is trying to make travel smoother

Indian Railways is looking to bring in a new quality audit system that would be kept a secret from its own staff and vendors

New Indian Railways app out, use it to book and cancel unreserved tickets

No advance ticket booking is allowed since the app is only for unreserved tickets

Hate trains running late? Here's Indian Railways' worst performing division

Though Railways has made an all-out effort to prevent delays by improving the punctuality rate, Mail and Express trains are sometimes running more than 5 to 10 hours behind schedule

Overcharged for food on trains? Now use Indian Railways Menu on Rail app

Once you click on a menu, you will get the full list of food items along with the price

You'll soon be able to book rail tickets at 290,000 centres in remote areas

Now all 2.9 lakh CSCs will be connected through technology to facilitate railways ticket booking

RITES readies Rs 2.5 billion for IRSDC stake; IPO to boost railways infra

According to the new plan, Indian Railways will offer 20 per cent of the overall redeveloped area for residential purposes

That was your last train trip without a ticket, as per railways' new drive

Facing flak over late running of trains across zones, the railways recently took a series of new measures to improve passenger experience