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Consider charging nominal insurance amount at time of booking ticket: HC to Railways
The HC overturned the decision of the tribunal in which a family was denied claim in a 2017 mishap reported in Pathankot and has awarded ₹8 lakh compensation to the family with 9% annual interest from the date of the filing of the claim till disbursal of the same.
Published on Mar 16, 2025 05:52 AM IST
Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
Female ticket-checker collects over ₹1 crore in fines
Rosaline Arokia Mary becomes the first female ticket-checker to collect fines over ₹1 crore.
Published on Mar 23, 2023 06:29 PM IST
Vrinda Jain
Review: When it Clicks by Amitabh Pandey
A book that describes how Indian Railways, a solidly public-sector organisation, used e-commerce to change its business paradigm
Updated on Apr 26, 2019 04:41 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Sujoy Gupta
Looking into it, says Air India on PM Modi picture on airline boarding pass
The airline said the passes featuring the photographs, which were third-party advertisements, would be withdrawn if they are found to be in violation of the Model Code of Conduct.
Updated on Mar 25, 2019 01:04 PM IST
New Delhi | Press Trust of India
Change in tack gets Railways on right track to bust Tatkal touts
Out of more than 50 million users, a list of most suspected personal user IDs was prepared. A total of 1,268 personal user IDs, which were being used to carry out touting activities, were sent to IRCTC to deactivate them immediately,” said Railway spokesperson.
Updated on Nov 06, 2018 10:52 AM IST
New Delhi | Faizan Haider
Man caught with railway tickets worth over Rs 2 lakh booked illegally
The tickets confiscated during such raids are cancelled immediately and no one can travel on them.
Published on Oct 28, 2018 04:57 PM IST
Mumbai | Press Trust of India
Railway stations in Maharashtra to get rid of weighing machines
The railway stations in Maharashtra will soon lose the multicolour-lit kiosks that told people their weight, and fortune, for a small price. The Indian Railways has decided to retire the historic card-ticket weighing machines from its stations across the state.
Published on Oct 03, 2018 08:12 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Mumbai | Aroosa Ahmed
Now, just pay Rs 5 instead of Rs 10 to travel from Prabhadevi to CSMT in Mumbai
This is because the Western Railway has started issuing the tickets for CSMT and other stations on the Central Railway network via Parel on Saturday, giving relief to the commuters.
Updated on Aug 12, 2018 04:37 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Kailash Korde, Mumbai
Railway tickets now in Punjabi language too
This comes as various states in India started printing the tickets in their local languages this year
Updated on Jun 15, 2018 10:49 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Amritsar | Surjit Singh, Amritsar
Smart India Hackathon 2018: Project to digitise railway ticketing process bags first prize in Pune
“We came to know that the railways spend ₹1.2 lakh per train on paper charts, and there are around 12,500 trains in India. So the project was to reduce this cost of paper by eliminating the pen-paper work in the railways and digitising it. The application was for ticket collectors (TC), whereby a simple QR code already present in the railway tickets will enable the TC to track and record the tickets. And all this will be possible without any extra effort, but just the app that can scan the QR code,” said 21-year old Yash Bhayre, third year student of Computer Science engineering branch from Bhopal. His team, Logic View, had won the first prize.
Updated on Mar 31, 2018 11:48 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Pune | Ananya Barua, Pune