The digital payment player PhonePe has tied up with Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) to offer PhonePe users with the service of recharging their DMRC smartcards on the app itself. This service will be made available to the users through a micro app in the freshly created ‘Apps’ section on the PhonePe app. The fintech company stated that […]
Good News! Now the passengers can check their train and live train status online via WhatsApp. Appreciation to Indian Railways, the passengers can check the train running status through WhatsApp, and make provisions beforehand. Indian Railways have come to terms with MakeMyTrip, a travel company headquartered in Gurugram, Haryana, to let the users check online […]
With the ever-increasing use of digital technology all over the country, the Indian Railways have now planned to look after and monitor the cleanliness of the trains, easy ticket availability, food problems and other grievances of the passengers with the help of technology-based advancements. TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENTS IN RAILWAY: 1) Whatsapp Groups to Monitor Cleanliness – One […]
San Fransisco based cab hailing company Uber said on Wednesday that it would be doubling up investment in India to take on the arch contender Ola. Uber’s maiden COO Barney Hardford said that India has such a huge potential that the company would not settle for minority stake deals here.The world’s most valued startup comments […]
Bangalore-based startup Synup that provides Saas solutions for marketing of local businesses, has raised $6 million in Series A funding led by Vertex Ventures. The round also saw the participation of its existing investor Prime Venture Partners. Launched back in 2014, Synup was founded by 23-year-old Ashwin Ramesh along with industry veterans Mohan Gopalakrishnan and Karthik […]
Bangalore, Karnataka, India- Amidst increasing digital payments preference and awareness amongst consumers, FreeCharge today announced that the number of transactions on its platform has crossed 500 million, with the value of these transactions exceeding USD 1.2 billion. Mobile recharges remain the biggest component of the transactions done on FreeCharge. Apart from recharges, nearly 20% of […]
Digital payments platform, Paytm today said it expects to clock over 3X growth in number of train tickets booked through its platform this financial year. The company is also strengthening its overall travel vertical and will hire more people over the next two quarters. “Paytm is booking over one million train tickets in a month […]
IRCTC has offered delivery of rail tickets allowing passengers to make payment through any payment mode, including cash. Broad-basing the customer service, the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation has now introduced pay-on- delivery service allowing passengers to book train tickets online and pay at the time of delivery. IRCTC through its website and mobile […]
You are not alone if you are ignoring travel insurance while booking the ticket for your upcoming trip. In fact, 90 percent of Indian travellers going abroad know about travel insurance, but only 2 to 5 percent of them prefer to buy one. Usually, people in India do not buy travel insurance unless the country […]
The Railways will soon move towards Aadhaar-based online ticketing system to prevent touts from blocking a bulk of tickets, end fraudulent bookings and curb cases of impersonation. Aadhaar number has been made mandatory for senior citizens to avail concessions in train tickets from April 1. A three-month trial run for this is going on. As […]
As compared to life insurance and health insurance, there are limited buyers for travel insurance. As per a recent report by the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI), in the fiscal year 2014-15, only 1.4 million domestic travel insurance plans were issued in India. Travel Insurance is often neglected by people! But its […]
In the wake of demonetisation drive and a surge in the demand for digital payment options, mobile wallet MobiKwik has revised its monthly annualised Gross Merchandise Value (GMV) sales target by 10 times to USD 10 billion by 2017, a top company executive said. GMV is used in online retailing to indicate a total sales […]