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From Now on, You Don’t Need Ticket Printouts to Travel on Indian Railways [But Why So Late?]

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IRCTC has announced that it will accept what it calls Virtual Reservation Message, which it defines as ‘a screen-shot of the e-ticket displayed through laptops/palmtops/ Mobile phone’. About time, though you’ll still need to carry an ID proof. This comes … Read More »

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12 Jul

Now Use SMS Acknowledgement As Railway Ticket [Indian Railways]

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While there is lot of heated development going on in the Indian Railways Ministry, the online arm of organization is also under revamp. The much talked about new ticket reservation portal has started. The new railway ticket reservation system is … Read More »

indian railways, irctc, mobile ticketing, online tickets, SMS tickets

08 Jul

IRCTC Tatkal Booking Solved Temporarily, Agents Banned

By Guest Author 23 Comments

Indian railways is finally giving ears to the public grievances about the 8am-9am blackout. IRCTC has proposed a temporary solution to the tatkal tickets being sold out within minutes after bookings open. IRCTC will be implementing a time bound ban … Read More »

indian OTAs, indian railways, irctc

14 Jun

IRCTC Solves a Customer Pain – Will Operate 23 Hours a day

By manish 9 Comments

No-brainer that IRCTC won’t allow you to book tickets from 11:30 in the night to 5 AM. While there could be several reasons (batch processing?), the largest ecommerce site in India will extend its’ online booking service for 23 hours … Read More »

india online, irctc

01 Jun

IRCTC Tests New UI. Nothing Much to Appreciate…Yet

By Guest Author 9 Comments

A lot is happening at IRCTC and the latest development is thier new UI. IRCTC is beta testing its new UI which is suppose to be faster and better. Though we appreciate the efforts made but their is not much … Read More »

irctc, user interface

12 May

IRCTC Flying and Wants You To Fly- Starts Selling Air Tickets, Catering Partner for CWG

By Guest Author 12 Comments

IRCTC had announced earlier that it would be looking to sell Air tickets on their site and that offering is now live. IRCTC.co.in has started selling flight tickets for all routes and all domestic carriers. Though some routes were available … Read More »

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18 Feb

23% Failure Rate for IRCTC Transactions in Jan 2010

By manish 17 Comments

IRCTC has clocked a total of 6547581 number of successful transactions in the month of January 2010. In total, there were 77% successful transactions across all the payment categories. As far as total transactions are concerned, 23% is a huge … Read More »

india online, irctc, irctc transactions

20 Nov

News Bytes: TripAdvisor: IRCTC, IPL Theatre Rights

By manish 1 Comment

TripAdvisor has partnered with IRCTC to power travel review content on IRCTC website. IRCTC drives 33% of total tickets sold by Indian railways and the deal is surely a big entry for TripAdvisor on India’s most successful ecommerce website. TripAdvisor … Read More »

india online, irctc, tripadvisor

25 Aug