{"id":323188,"date":"2020-05-14T05:54:15","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T05:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=323188"},"modified":"2020-05-14T05:54:15","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T05:54:15","slug":"indian-railway-cancels-regular-train-tickets-for-travel-till-june-30-specials-to-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/indian-railway-cancels-regular-train-tickets-for-travel-till-june-30-specials-to-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Railway cancels regular train tickets for travel till June 30, Specials to run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-304004 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/indian-rail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"812\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/indian-rail.jpg 812w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/indian-rail-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/indian-rail-768x439.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/indian-rail-696x398.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/indian-rail-735x420.jpg 735w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 812px) 100vw, 812px\" \/>Indian Railways on Thursday said that it has cancelled all train tickets booked till June 30 and a full refund will be given to passengers, adding that Special and Shramik trains will continue to operate as scheduled.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u2018Shramik trains\u2019 are taking migrants from different states to their home states while the special trains are running on 15 major stations to ferry stranded people across the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Regular train services, including Mail\/Express, Passenger and Suburban booked up to June 30 have been cancelled.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">All passenger train operations were suspended in March after PM Modi announced nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of COVID-19.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Railways on Thursday said that it has cancelled all train tickets booked till June 30 and a full refund will be given to passengers, adding that Special and Shramik trains will continue to operate as scheduled. \u2018Shramik trains\u2019 are taking migrants from different states to their home states while the special trains are running [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":304004,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323189,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323188\/revisions\/323189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/304004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}