India, Oct. 17 -- The IRCTC website is reportedly down for thousands of users who were trying to book train tickets for travel during the upcoming Diwali and Chhath Puja holidays. Complaints of IRCTC outages have spiked in the couple of hours, according to Downdetector.

The server is temporarily unavailable due to service requests, reads a message on the IRCTC message. The rush for Tatkal ticket bookings, which opened on Friday morning, is seen as the reason for the outage.

This is a developing story. More to come.

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