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Railways launch upgraded IRCTC website, call it a ‘New Year gift’ for travellers
By HT Correspondent | Edited by Sohini Sarkar | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON DEC 31, 2020 06:03 PM IST
The new website claims to have complete user personalization linked to the user login, such as the booking of meals, retiring rooms and hotels too have been integrated and can be directly booked along with the tickets.
News updates from Hindustan Times: Celebs, religious leaders in govt’s Covid-19 vaccine strategy and all the latest news
By hindustantimes.com | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON DEC 31, 2020 05:05 PM IST
Here are today’s top news, analysis, and opinion at 5 pm. Know all about the latest news and other news updates from Hindustan Times.
IRCTC overhauls site, ticket booking facilities. Check new features
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Poulomi Ghosh | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON DEC 31, 2020 04:19 PM IST
The new site will be faster and will present all information to passengers on one page.
Railways to enhance IRCTC’s e-ticketing website
By Asian News International| Posted by Mallika Soni | New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON DEC 25, 2020 02:57 PM IST
The Indian Railways is working to enhance user personalisation and facilitation of their e-ticketing website, along with enhanced features and simple design, the official press release said.
‘Sent to all’: IRCTC denies mailing Sikhs on govt’s behalf amid farmers’ protest
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Kunal Gaurav | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON DEC 13, 2020 07:09 PM IST
According to several media reports, IRCTC has started sending out emails with a 47-page attachment titled ‘PM Modi and his government’s special relationship with Sikhs’.
IRCTC offer for sale: Govt to sell 20% stake, subscription opens today
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Poulomi Ghosh | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON DEC 10, 2020 10:24 AM IST
The floor price for the offer shall be Rs 1,367. Today the sale will be for non-retail investors. On day two, the sale will be open to retail investors.
IRCTC shares jump 16% as optimism grows over Covid-19 vaccine
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Shivani Kumar | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON DEC 04, 2020 08:24 PM IST
Compared to its 52-week low of Rs 774 hit during the market crash in March, IRCTC shares have risen 106% till date. However, it is still off its 52-week high of Rs 1,995, hit earlier this year.
IRCTC cancels Lucknow-Delhi and Mumbai-Ahmedabad Tejas Express
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Prashasti Singh | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON NOV 17, 2020 02:13 PM IST
“The management has decided to cancel all departures of IRCTC Tejas trains due to low occupancy levels resulting from coronavirus(Covid-19) pandemic,” a statement issued by the railway company said.
IRCTC to offer tourist packages
By Aroosa Ahmed | Mumbai
PUBLISHED ON NOV 11, 2020 05:11 PM IST
Is senior citizen concession withdrawn? Has train fare gone up? All you need to know
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Poulomi Ghosh | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON OCT 22, 2020 12:21 PM IST
As regular passenger services remain suspended, regular fares and concessions stand partially suspended. But there has been no hike in fares, the railways has said.
IRCTC’s Tejas trains resume services from today. Here are the safety protocols
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Meenakshi Ray | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON OCT 17, 2020 09:56 AM IST
The two Tejas Express services are the first set of trains run by a corporate entity, IRCTC, a subsidiary of the Indian Railways.
Amazon India-IRCTC partnership: How to book train tickets on e-commerce platform
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Karan Manral | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON OCT 14, 2020 01:09 PM IST
The facility includes cashback on first booking, option to check seat and quota facility across all classes, option to check PNR status etc.
Amazon India partners IRCTC to offer reserved train ticket bookings
By Press Trust of India| Posted by Susmita Pakrasi | New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON OCT 07, 2020 05:49 PM IST
Customers will be able to check PNR status for ticket booked through its platform. Customers paying with Amazon Pay Balance will also get instant refund in case of cancellations or booking failures, it said.
IRCTC to restart Tejas trains from October 17 with safety protocols
By Asian News International| Posted by Susmita Pakrasi | New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON OCT 07, 2020 03:42 PM IST
IRCTC said it has conducted an extensive training programme to train its team of employees which has been told to follow standard operating procedures to ensure passenger safety.
Railways permit cooked food to be sold at stations for the first time since Covid-19 outbreak
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON OCT 03, 2020 06:50 PM IST
The national carrier had so far allowed the sale of only packaged food across catering and vending units at stations. Food stalls across platforms had been shut throughout the nationwide lockdown imposed on March 25.
Hit by curbs, IRCTC running at a loss for first time since inception in 2002
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, New Delhi, New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON SEP 28, 2020 02:56 AM IST
Director of tourism and marketing Rajni Hasija said that the IRCTC had a sense of a drastic drop in passengers traffic as early as in January as many tourists cancelled their tickets on high-end trains.
Indian Railways announces ‘clone train scheme’: All you need to know
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Karan Manral | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON SEP 08, 2020 01:35 PM IST
A ‘clone’ train will run as an alternative to an actual train and ferry waitlisted passengers of that train to their destinations.
Private trains to begin plying by 2023, will have competitive pricing: Railways
By Anisha Dutta | Edited by Sohini Sarkar | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON JUL 02, 2020 08:18 PM IST
The Railway ministry on Wednesday began the formal process to allow a private company to run trains on 109 routes -- a process that aims to, for the first time, open up one of the government’s most prominent enterprises that has in recent decades been outpaced by the demands of a rapidly growing economy.
After ending services of 500 contractual workers, railway says order on hold
By Anisha Dutta | Edited by Ashutosh Tripathi | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON JUN 30, 2020 08:03 PM IST
The decision to end the contracts is currently under reconsideration by the IRCTC board.
IRCTC keeps order to terminate over 500 catering supervisors in abeyance till further notice
By Press Trust of India | New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON JUN 30, 2020 02:08 PM IST
The hospitality supervisors’ work is to monitor operations of the pantry car on board trains which essentially means to look after the preparation of the food, quality inspection, handling passenger complaints and to ensure that the charges of food are according to prices notified by the national transporter.
IRCTC sacks 500 contractual workers
By Anisha Dutta | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON JUN 30, 2020 04:48 AM IST
In a letter to all railway zones dated June 25, a copy of which has been reviewed by Hindustan Times, IRCTC informed all its zonal offices that there was no requirement for these contractual workers under the present circumstances.
Ticket reservation counters at railway stations to open from May 22
By Anisha Dutta | Edited by Kanishka Sarkar | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON MAY 21, 2020 09:20 PM IST
Booking of train tickets will resume at around 1.7 lakh common service centres across the country from Friday onward, union railway minister Piyush Goyal also said on Thursday.
Online booking of tickets on IRCTC delayed, Railways blames Cyclone Amphan
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by: Amit Chaturvedi | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON MAY 21, 2020 11:28 AM IST
Only online e-ticketing will be done through IRCTC website or through Mobile App, and no tickets will be booked across the reservation counter on any railway station, the Railways said.
Online booking on IRCTC for 200 trains to begin at 10 am today
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by: Amit Chaturvedi | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON MAY 21, 2020 08:36 AM IST
IRCTC ticket booking: These special trains will run on the pattern of regular trains, covering tier 2 cities and also major state capitals like Mumbai and Kolkata, the Railways said.
Railways to run AC trains from June 1: Here’s a list of trains allowed
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Sohini Sarkar | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON MAY 21, 2020 12:01 AM IST
Only online e-ticketing will be done through the IRCTC website or through the mobile app. No tickets will be issued across the reservation counter from any railway station.
Those travelling by special train must ‘agree’ to follow quarantine protocol of states: IRCTC
By Press Trust of India | New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON MAY 17, 2020 05:16 PM IST
The new rule, mentioned in a pop-up on its website, reads “I have read the health advisory issued by my destination state.
‘Destination address must’: Railways to passengers taking special trains
By Anisha Dutta | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON MAY 14, 2020 03:20 PM IST
The move will help the government in contact tracing passengers affected by Covid-19, the railway ministry said.
People disallowed to board trains due to Covid-19 symptoms to get full refund
By Press Trust of India | Posted by Kanishka Sarkar | New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON MAY 14, 2020 02:56 PM IST
Railways said that on a group ticket if one passenger is found unfit to travel and all other passengers on the same PNR also do not want to travel, in that case full refund shall be granted for all passengers.
Railways says all tickets booked for travel on or before June 30 cancelled; Shramik, special trains remain unaffected
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Sparshita Saxena | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON MAY 14, 2020 02:33 PM IST
The operation of Shramik special trains, for the purpose of repatriation of stranded migrant labourers amid the coronavirus lockdown, will remain unaffected.
Railways introduces waiting lists for travellers from May 22: All you need to know
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Sohini Sarkar | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON MAY 13, 2020 11:51 PM IST
The order from the Railways to the various zones indicates that it is planning to run mixed services instead of the presently all air-conditioned trains. This means that it may begin services to smaller Tier-II towns along with major cities that the Rajdhani trains cater to at present.