Due to unavailability of tickets in most fast and super fast trains during the summer holiday season, the Indian Railways is running 78 special trains to cater to the rush, an official said on Monday.
A railway spokesperson said doctors at Gomoh station attended to those taken ill and all of them are stable.
The Election Commission on Tuesday called the railways approach towards enforcing the model code of conduct "lackadaisical" after allegations that poll norms were violated with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's picture on tickets and the slogan "Main Bhi Chowkidar" on tea cups.
Just two days ago, a tea cup bearing the BJP's election campaign slogan "main bhi chowkidaar" created a furore.
Their interrogation revealed that two of the accused pretended to be passengers and entered railway stations with valid platform tickets.
The train will start running from the Indian side on Sunday, while on the Pakistan side it will leave Lahore on Monday for its return journey.
Put into bat by Mumbai skipper Ajinkya Rahane, Railways posted a competitive 175/5 in their 20 overs with opener Pratham Singh (89) top-scoring.
"In case of linked PNRs, if a rail passenger misses connecting train owing to late running of the train by which he had been travelling, the fare for untravelled portion shall be refunded, without levying any cancellation or clerkage charge," a Railway Board order accessed by PTI said.
Cheteshwar Pujara's ton came against Railways in the domestic T20 tournament - Syed Mushtaq Ali trophy. In doing so, Pujara also became the first batsman from Saurashtra to hit a hundred in the format.
Meanwhile, calling the Centre's announcement of employing over four lakh people in Railways "another jumla", former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram on Thursday said the Railway Ministry has "suddenly" woken up to posts lying vacant for nearly five years.
The exam was to be conducted in three sessions at eight centres in Prayagraj and six in Kanpur.
Railways is planning to seal stations just like airports and passengers would have to arrive 15-20 minutes before scheduled departure of trains to complete the process of security checks.
The Railways has received more than 7,500 complaints from passengers over bad quality of food served on trains and imposed fines of about Rs 1.5 cr on vendors till October this year, the ministry informed Parliament on Wednesday.
Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) is offering bus services at an extremely cheap price and the offer has been put by IRCTC on its official website www.irctc.co.in.
The Train 18 had speeded up to 180 kmph between Kota Junction and Kurlasi station during a trial on Sunday.
As per the system, the tariff goes up as the occupancy rate increases. The fare increases by 10 per cent as every 10 per cent of berths are occupied with a cap of 1.5 times of the base fare.
Sixty people were crushed to death by a train coming from Jalandhar on October 19, when they were watching an effigy of Ravana burn at a ground near railway tracks at Joda Phatak.
The NHRC has also sought details on disbursement of relief and rehabilitation to the aggrieved families.
The Railway officials have said that they will release the information regarding the exam city, date and shift of the Group D examination scheduled to be held after October 16 once the websites start running smoothly.
While between September 2016 and August 2017, where there were 80 train accidents and 249 fatalities, in the corresponding period for 2017 and 2018, the number of deaths stood at 2018.
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