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More than 1,300 railway stations across India are to be part of the Amrit Bharat Station Scheme; of these, 98 in West Bengal are to be converted to ‘world-class stations’. Will the Centre’s effort come at the cost of the livelihoods of thousands of railway hawkers? Is that what is behind the growing reports of hawker-RPF standoffs? Prasun Chaudhuri wonders

Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel seized train tickets worth over 4L in Ludhiana in the past year. 31 persons were arrested for illegal sale of tickets. The RPF action is a result of individual complaints and special drives against ticket touting. Touts were using illegal software and fake IDs to book tatkal tickets.

EXCLUSIVE: Chiltern Railways and Transport for Wales are among the UK rail operators who now franchise out prosecutions to a private security company called Transport Investigations Ltd (TIL).

Northern, which runs services through Ilkeston Railway Station, has seen a 20% drop in the number of penalty fares issued in the first year since the government increased the fine to those travelling without a ticket to £100.

Northern has seen a 20 drop in the number of penalty fares issued since the government increased the fine to those travelling without a ticket to…