IRCTC probes website crash reasons

While the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) is trying to pinpoint the reasons for the recent instances of their website crashing just about the time the Tatkal ticket booking opens, internal data reveals that ticket sales during the Tatkal period jump from 3.6 times to 4.3 times the average hourly booking figures.

- Shashank Rao

THANE: A gang of thieves stole a bag containing jewellery worth ₹1.68 crore and ₹2 lakh in cash from a bus near Umbarmali village on the Mumbai-Nashik Highway in Shahapur taluka, where the bus had halted for a tea break.

According to Kasara police, on Saturday night, jewellery trader Kiran Kumar boarded a Nashik-Borivali Shivshahi bus. Around 1:30am, the bus stopped at Hotel Famous on the Mumbai-Nashik Highway near Umbarmali village for a tea break.

Kiran Kumar left his bag on his seat and got off the bus to buy a bottle of water. The thieves, who were travelling on the same bus, stole the bag and fled toward Mumbai in a car that apparently was tailing the bus.

The bus driver had noted down the car's number and Kasara police, where a case has been registered, are now trying to trace the owner of the vehicle and identify the thieves.

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