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Thursday, November 13, 2025
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Topic: IRCTC

Tejas Express has style of airline but first passengers compare it to Shatabdi speed, price

ThePrint took a ride on the Tejas Express, India's first private train, to see if the experience was worth the hype. 

Why Tejas is ‘1st private train’ — Railways owns it, outside vendors provide food & clean it

The Tejas Express between Lucknow and New Delhi is Indian Railways' first experiment with privatisation. Here's what it entails.

Train tickets to get costlier as IRCTC restores service charge on e-tickets

After service charges were discontinued, IRCTC saw a 26 per cent drop in Internet ticketing revenue in financial year 2016-17, said officials.

‘Stale food’ served to passengers including union minister on India’s fastest train

A five star hotel in Kanpur is under the scanner for serving stale food to passengers on board Vande Bharat Express.

20 passengers on Delhi-Bhubaneswar Rajdhani taken ill after eating meals

A doctor boarded the train at Bokaro to attend to the passengers.

Modi’s poll slogan reaches Railways, tea served on Shatabdi in ‘Main Bhi Chowkidar’ cups

The IRCTC said it immediately withdrew the cups and also imposed Rs 1 lakh fine on the private contractor.

Delhi Court has summoned Lalu Yadav, Rabri Devi  and son Tejashwi in IRCTC scam

Court summoned Lalu's family 2 months after charge sheet filed in the case, CBI says there is enough evidence.

On Camera

Inflation plunges to a 10-yr low of 0.25% in October. Here’s why

Record-low inflation gives RBI room to ease rates. Food prices have something to do with it.

Turkey blocks transport of Apache choppers to India through its airspace, new route being worked out

Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.