Indian Railways is going to operate "Shramik Special" trains to help the migrant workers, pilgrims, tourists, students, and other people who are stranded at different places due to lockdown. In these special Shramik Special Trains, a maximum of around 1200 passengers can travel observing social ...

Indian Railways is taking steps for its customers and the general public! The Railway Emergency Cell for COVID-19 has been responding to nearly 13,000 queries, suggestions, and requests daily, from five communication as well as feedback platforms – Helpline numbers 138 and 139, social media ...

In continuation of the measures taken in the wake of COVID-19 Lockdown, it has been decided that all passenger train services on Indian Railways including Premium trains, Mail/Express trains, Passenger trains, Suburban Trains, Kolkata Metro Rail, Konkan Railway etc shall continue to remain ...

In continuation of the measures taken to prevent the spread of COVID-19, Indian Railways is making all out efforts to supplement the health care initiatives of Government of India. In this direction Indian Railways is producing reusable face masks and sanitizer in-house in all its Zonal Railways, ...

Indian Railways has taken up the in-house production of PPE type overall on a mission mode. An overall produced by Jagadhari workshop was recently cleared by a DRDO lab, authorised for the purpose. Approved design and material will now be used for making this protective overall by other workshops ...

Indian Railways has begun preparing to resume all its services from 15 April after a 21-day suspension of its passenger trains in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. They will begin operations only after a green signal from the government which had formed a Group of Ministers (GoM) on the issue. ...

The Union Cabinet has apprised of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between Ministry of Railways, Government of India with DB Engineering & Consulting GMBH of Germany for technological cooperation in Railway Sector. The MoU was signed in February, 2020. Daily Current Affairs Quiz ...

Indian Railways will operate a new train based on Ramayana theme which will take pilgrims to locations associated with Lord Rama. The new Ramayana circuit train will start operating from the last week of March. The train will give a feel to passengers of a temple on wheels with themes and pictures ...

The area of co-operation of this MoU envisages to enable energy efficiency and energy self-sufficiency for Indian Railway. The MoU will benefit Indian Railway in field of energy planning, renewable energy planning and deployment including off shore wind and solar energy, energy storage, new energy ...

The Indian Railways is expected to switch entirely to electricity by 2024, as it is already shunting diesel locomotives gradually out of service. It will be the first railway network in the world to be run fully on electricity. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 By 2030, Government plans to ...