Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation

Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) has tied up with Paytm, payment and e-commerce website, to offer an additional payment gateway for food ordered through its e-catering facility. “We have roped in leading payment and e-commerce player Paytm for...

Taking a yet another step to expan its e-catering facility, Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) has tied up with online delivery firm Foodpanda, enabling consumers to order from a variety of cuisine options. The collaboration, to be launched...

After extending e-catering services to 1500 trains froman initial 28 non-pantry car trains, Indian Railways has now started withdrawing pantry cars from long-distance trains across the country. The railways are reportedly looking to replace the pantry cars by “e-catering” and...

In 2014-15, Indian Railways carried 8.4 billion passengers -- more than 23 million passengers a day (roughly half of whom were suburban passengers). India’s thousands of railways stations – in excess of 8,000 at last count – comprise perhaps...

The Indian e-commerce market is growing rapidly. Better social attainment in terms of education, coupled with advent of Internet, telecommunication and media, has further intensified this growth, closing many gaps between urban and up-country tastes and preferences as well...

Deepa Thomas, Head - Partnerships, eBay India, shares her assessment of the Indian market and tells what kind of e-commerce players she thinks would eventually emerge the winners in the country in an exclusive interaction with Payal Kapoor. E-commerce...

Thanks to the deregulation of retail petrol prices in June last year, fuel retailing companies are finding themselves thinking out-of-the-box to stay ahead of competition. Brought on a level-playing field by deregulation of petrol prices, these companies, public and...