Indian Railways to restart passenger train services from Tuesday

The Indian Railways will resume passenger trains operations from tomorrow. This comes as India inches towards the end of the third phase of the countrywide lockdown to fight COVID-19. Starting from tomorrow, the Railways is planning to operate 15 trains to begin with. These trains will run as special special trains from New Delhi to […]

Railways ready to modify 20,000 coaches to accommodate 3.2 lakh beds for isolation needs

To help the government in its effort to contain the spread of coronavirus, Indian Railways said it would prepare 20,000 coaches which can accommodate up to 3.2 lakh beds for isolation needs. “As part of COVID-19 preparedness, it has been decided by Indian Railways that it would be prepared to modify 20000 coaches into quarantine […]

50% of over 9,000 vacancies in Indian Railways will be for women: Piyush Goyal

Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday announced that 50 per cent of about 9,000 vacancies that are coming up for the posts of Constables and Sub-Inspectors in the Railway Protection Force (RPF) will be for women. Sharing this information, Goyal tweeted, “50% of over 9,000 vacancies that are coming up for the posts of Constables and […]