MUMBAI: Two Government Railway Police (GRP) personnel have been captured on closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras at CST accepting money from passengers to let them jump the queue while boarding unreserved train compartments.
Senior RPF officers came across the footage during a vigilance check. Seven of their own personnel were also found...
MUMBAI: The high levels of dissatisfaction among commuters about passenger amenities can be explained by a finding of the MRVC survey itself: nearly 52% of those interviewed were unhappy with the complaint-handling mechanism of the railways.
"In the electricity supply laws, there is provision that the firms should have an internal...
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday upheld the penalty imposed by the government on a railway employee for taking a bribe of Rs 300 from a decoy agent to expedite the addition of a coach to a passenger train in 2005.
Rajesh Singh, posted at New Delhi Railway station...
The fight between Railway Police Force (RPF) association leader US Jha and CBI Director Ranjit Sinha took another bitter turn on Monday when the former sent a legal notice of defamation to the latter.
The notice has been sent over the circulation and publishing of allegedly “defamatory and derogatory” news about...
Rs 30-cr spent on Kurla stn down the drain. Literally
The brand new Kurla Terminus, inaugurated on April 16 and touted as the Railways' Rs 30-crore gift to Mumbai, has already started to develop huge cracks. Worse, the entire structure - built on marshy land - has begun sink.
In fact, Mumbai...
THIRUVARUR: In two accidents, three people were killed on railway tracks as they were hit by a goods train in the early hours of Monday in Thiruvarur district.
Two of them were run over when they were sleeping on the track while another man was killed when he was walking on...
CHENNAI: A free medical centre opened at the Tambaram railway station on Monday. Set up by Global Health City in association with the railways, it will provide emergency care for passengers at the railway station, according to a statement from the hospital.
It will have first aid facilities, a nursing station,...
HUBLI: Members of South Western Railway, Mazdoor Union took out a procession and staged a protest to condemn the alleged harassment of railway employees by some senior officials in Hubli railway division here on Monday.
Protestors alleged that some senior officers in railway division are harassing employees and also punishing them...
Chandigarh Police used water cannons to disperse scores of BJP workers protesting near the CBI office on Monday, demanding the ouster of CBI region chief Mahesh Aggarwal, who allegedly leaked information about the raids on former railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal's nephew Vijay Singla in the railway bribery case.
BJP leader...
The New Mangalore Port has been registering upward trend in the movement of traffic since the beginning of the current fiscal year. The Port has registered a growth rate of 31.65 per cent by handling 5.09 million tonnes as against 3.87 million tonnes handled during the corresponding period of previous...
As already observed by our Admins Jay Shah & Nazeer in prior posts [/blog/post/735925|http://indiarailinfo.com/blog/post/735925] and [/blog/post/735925|http://indiarailinfo.com/blog/post/734351] , the Seat Availability Check, Search and Availability Calendar have now been implemented. The feature is an amalgamation of numerous suggestions put forward by our members/Admins over the past few months. Hearty thanks to...
A new class of members called "Forum Monitor" has been introduced. These members will have free rein to Delete Posts, Suspend Members and Archive Blogs. The defining characteristics of these members is:
1. They are a subset of the Admin group.
2. They are NOT active bloggers, and so not emotionally involved.
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The following modifications are being made in the Forum:
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1. The Opinion box will now show a detailed list of Members who provided the rating. When you click on Great, Thanks, Useful or Agree, a box will open up beneath displaying the names. When you hover over the respective member names,...
Further elucidation on UnAnswered and Popular tabs.
UnAnswered:
Only posts tagged with "Travel Question" within the last 7 days are candidates for the UnAnswered tab. Other general comments may not necessarily deserve a reply. If members miscategorize their genuine questions as something else - Rail/Travel, etc. - they will have to...
Members mark your calendars. The first online IRI Quiz Contest will be held on Sunday, Feb 3 @ 8pm IST. Some points:
1. You would need a modern mobile or desktop browser. No Opera Mini. You would need to ensure that you have good internet connectivity.
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2. NO easy questions. 20 medium...
As per the suggestion presented [here|http://indiarailinfo.com/blog/post/615661] , a new experimental feature is being introduced today.
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At the top of the member profile, you will see a new link "Block Member" (see pic). If you block any member, they will NOT be able to reply within Blog Entries started by you, OR...
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