India's metro network is world's third largest with 1,000 kms expansion
Jan 15, 2025, at 03:45 pm
Covering over 1,000 km across 11 states and 23 cities, India has become home to the third-largest metro network in the world.
Railways complete challenging tunnel drive of 800m in Kolkata in spite of Covid challenges
May 17, 2021, at 02:07 am
Kolkata: The Indian Railways on Sunday said the tunneling work gets completed by Tunnel Boring Machine [TBM ] in East West Metro Corridor with the breakthrough of “Urvi“ at Bowbazar, Kolkata on May 15.
Metro services resume in Bengaluru
Sep 11, 2020, at 05:46 pm
Bengaluru/UNI: After resuming limited trains during peak hours, metro operations now began its full day service on Friday in the city.
COVID-19: Delhi Metro service resumes today after 169 days
Sep 07, 2020, at 03:38 pm
New Delhi/UNI/IBNS: Maintaining social distancing and other essential norms to avoid COVID-19 spread, Delhi Metro service resumed in selected cities across India on Monday.
Unlock 4 guidelines: Metro services to resume from Sept 7
Aug 30, 2020, at 01:29 am
New Delhi/IBNS: Metro services will resume from Sept 7 as the central government on Saturday issued guidelines for Unlock 4.0 which will begin from 1st of the next month.
Normalcy returns in Bengaluru post unlock, metro services to resume soon: Karnataka CM Yediyurappa
Aug 27, 2020, at 07:35 pm
Bengaluru/UNI: Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa on Thursday said that the normalcy is slowly returning to normalcy after the Unlock and the metro services will be resumed soon.
Delhi Metro Phase-IV project cost up by Rs 5,000 crore due to delay: Centre
Apr 02, 2019, at 08:19 pm
New Delhi, Apr 2 (UNI): Terming as 'baseless' Delhi government’s allegation that their share of expenditure for the three corridors approved by the Union government in March, 2019 is more than its earlier proposal, the Centre on Tuesday said the Delhi Metro Phase-IV project cost had escalated by Rs 5,000 crore due to 4 years' delay by the Delhi government in approving the proposal.
PM Narendra Modi takes Metro, obliges travellers with selfies
Feb 26, 2019, at 08:00 pm
New Delhi, Feb 26 (UNI) On a day of Indian Air Force's pre-dawn strike on terror-camps in Pakistan that kept him awake, Prime Minister Narendra Modi went about his day's programmes, including attending the Gandhi Peace Prize function at Rashtrapati Bhavan, addressing a public meeting in Rajasthan and later taking a Metro ride to the Iskcon Temple in the Capital for unveiling the world's largest volume ' Bhagwat Gita'.
Lucknow metro comes to a premature halt on day one
Sep 06, 2017, at 04:17 pm
Lucknow, Sep 6 (IBNS): The Lucknow metro which was flagged off amid much fanfare on Tuesday, sadly encountered a premature halt on the inaugural day, after developing a technical glitch during its maiden run on Wednesday morning, reports said.