The state-of-the-art coach has been built on LHB platform and has vibration-based self-power harvesting sensor on the axle box, which will predict the defects on the bearings, wheel defects and hard spot (defects) on the track.

The Ministry of Railways has been gradually changing the face of Indian trains.

The Indian Railways is trying to deliver projects worth at least Rs 50,000 crore in the next eight months.

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Despite huge strides, the risk of stressed and stranded projects is keeping investors jittery about India's infrastructure building strategy.

Indian Railways plans to invest Rs 44,000 crore to build a 1,100-km greenfield freight corridor along the country's east coast to connect Kharagpur in West Bengal with Vijaywada in Andhra Pradesh.

Union Minister Arun Jaitley, who had undergone a kidney transplant surgery on May 14, is likely to resume office of Finance Minister in the third week of August, sources said.

The IRCTC manager would attend to the complaints even when the train is in motion and would report to the train captain at the railway station where the train originates.

Last year the railway ministry permitted mAadhaar, that is Aadhaar card on the mobile app, as a proof of identity.

The Southern Railway has increased run-time from 30 minutes to an hour for as many as 90 trains, while the Northern Railway has also pushed the train timings by 30 to 60 minutes for total 95 trains.

Additionally, the app also has a feature of presenting an e-ticket which eliminates the necessity of carrying a physical ticket.

Some of the features of the new IRCTC website include convenient next generation interface, easy search queries, train search without login and probability of ticket confirmation.

Among the areas where Railways Minister Piyush Goyal is working to double the Railways' revenue are signalling, train punctuality and freight capacity. Indian Railways wants to increase its share of freight from 33 per cent to 45 per cent.

Both railways and transport ministry will work together and put the ambitious project on fast track.

The idea had come from Railway Minister Piyush Goyal who gave one-year deadline last year to complete the process of inducting the predictive service on the IRCTC website.

As the NDA government enters its final year, there is a long unfinished agenda that it may not be able to implement by 2019.

Indian Railways has invited applications for over 9,739 jobs of constables and sub-inspectors in Railway Protection Force and Railway Protection Special Force. Of total 9,739 vacancies, 8,619 posts are for constables while 1,120 for sub-inspectors.

The circular attached with the tweet added that \"IRCTC has not initiated any recruitment in the recent past. Whenever recruitment is made same will be advertised in the newspaper as well as in the official IRCTC website.\"

The redevelopment plan has reportedly been assigned to the zonal railways with a one year deadline for completion.

The Indian Railways has registered its worst performance when it comes to punctuality in the past three years. Almost 30 per cent of the trains were late in the financial year 2017-18, according to official data.