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railway ticket news

Railways announces festive offer: Big discount on return tickets from August 14

Railway bookings under this scheme will start on August 14, 2025.
Published on Aug 10, 2025 02:22 pm IST

Consider charging nominal insurance amount at time of booking ticket: HC to Railways

The Punjab and Haryana high court has advised the Railways to consider charging of a nominal amount as insurance premium at the time of booking of a railway ticket. (Shutterstock/ Representational image)
Published on Mar 16, 2025 05:52 am IST

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

Review: When it Clicks by Amitabh Pandey

The way we were: Crowd at a ticket booking window at a railway station in Delhi on June 10, 1992
Updated on Apr 26, 2019 04:41 pm IST

Looking into it, says Air India on PM Modi picture on airline boarding pass

Air India spokesperson Dhananjay Kumar said the boarding passes seemed to be one printed during the Vibrant Gujarat Summit held in January and the photographs were part of the advertisement from ‘third parties’.
Updated on Mar 25, 2019 01:04 pm IST

Change in tack gets Railways on right track to bust Tatkal touts

Indian Railways is systematically monitoring user IDs, payment gateways and booking locations to bust touts who block ‘tatkal’ tickets before users can book them, particularly during the festive season.
Updated on Nov 06, 2018 10:52 am IST

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

Railway stations in Maharashtra to get rid of weighing machines

The card-ticket weighing machines were introduced by the railways in the late 1950s for its stations across the country.
Published on Oct 03, 2018 08:12 am IST

Now, just pay Rs 5 instead of Rs 10 to travel from Prabhadevi to CSMT in Mumbai

The revised fare was updated on the system at 7.50 am on Saturday.
Updated on Aug 12, 2018 04:37 am IST

Railway tickets now in Punjabi language too

Punjabi finds place alongside English and Hindi.
Updated on Jun 15, 2018 10:49 pm IST

Smart India Hackathon 2018: Project to digitise railway ticketing process bags first prize in Pune

Team Logic View received the first price at the Smart India Hackathon 2018 at COEP on Saturday.
Updated on Mar 31, 2018 11:48 pm IST