New Delhi: The Chinese embassy was on Sunday turned into a fortress as Premier Li Keqiang arrived on a state visit while a tight security ring was thrown around the Taj Palace Hotel where he is staying. Delhi Police have deployed more personnel and shut down certain roads, including those near the Chinese embassy, as a precautionary measure.
All the inner roads leading to the hotel have been barricaded and no one is allowed to enter without special passes.
The Race Course station of the Delhi Metro, which is close to the prime minister's official residence and the diplomatic area, is to remain shut from 7 pm to 9 pm Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is to hold talks with Li and also host a private dinner for him.
Police officials said Sardar Patel Marg, which connects the Chinese embassy in the diplomatic enclave of New Delhi, to the airport, will remain closed till Sunday night. The road will be opened late at night and shut again on Monday morning, said an official....
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05:43 AM, May 20, 2013
New Delhi: Commuters of Delhi Airport Metro, travelling with their families or in groups of two or more, will now get discounts ranging from Rs 20 to Rs 80 per ticket. Delhi Airport Metro Express Private Limited on Tuesday announced the special discounted 'Family Fares'. Under the new scheme, the current tariff of Rs 180 per person between New Delhi Station and Dwarka will come down to Rs 100 if...
03:47 PM, May 14, 2013
New Delhi: Eco-friendly chemicals, hi-tech machines and bio-degradable garbage disposal bags will ensure cleanliness of Metro stations. Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has decided to re-work its cleaning and housekeeping practices by using advanced and hi-tech machineries and is conducting specialised training programme for its staff to ensure the entire system is clean and hygienic round-the-clock. All the team leaders and supervisors of the cleaning teams deputed at stations, maintenance...
02:30 AM, May 13, 2013
New Delhi: Amid the media brouhaha in India over the border incursions by their troops, Chinese engineers were last week calmly tunneling in the heart of the national capital for the heritage line of the Delhi Metro network, signifying the growing commercial linkages between the two neighbours. Engineers of the Shanghai Urban Construction Group (SUCG) lowered a massive 300-tonne Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) into a crater that was once a...
12:49 PM, May 09, 2013
Many people from the Sikh community came together in New Delhi on Wednesday to protest against the acquittal of Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in one of the cases of 1984 anti-Sikh riots. "We have been waiting for justice for 28 years despite all the witnesses in the case," said one of the protesters. ...
04:52 PM, May 01, 2013
New Delhi: Many people from the Sikh community came together in New Delhi on Wednesday to protest against the acquittal of Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in one of the cases of 1984 anti-Sikh riots. While many stormed a metro station in west Delhi in the afternoon disrupting services for sometime, the others marched to a police station blocking traffic in the area. The protesters entered Subhash Nagar Metro Station at...
03:49 PM, May 01, 2013
New Delhi: A 25-year-old woman committed suicide by consuming poison outside a Metro station in the national capital, police said on Sunday. Her husband and in-laws have been arrested for alleged dowry harassment. "Shilpa was found lying unconscious outside Dwarka Sector 12 Metro Station in the morning. She was spotted by a Metro security personnel," said a police officer. No suicide note was found. According to Shilpa's parents, she was...
11:13 AM, Apr 29, 2013
New Delhi: An unidentified elderly man allegedly committed suicide by jumping before a metro train in west Delhi on Thursday evening, police said. The incident took place in Janakpuri Metro station at around 5 pm and the victim is aged between 60 and 70 years. The victim was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was declared brought dead. ...
08:36 PM, Apr 25, 2013
New Delhi: Metro commuters battling with poor mobile network connectivity may finally have a reason to smile. To ensure better mobile signals, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation will soon have more BTS/cellular towers on various metro stations. The Delhi Metro will provide bare spaces on licence basis for placement and operation of telecommunication equipment for mobile signal enhancement at the various sites in Metro Corridor stations as per the latest...
10:30 AM, Apr 21, 2013
Delhi Metro services will be curtailed on Wednesday in view of the Holi festival. Trains will resume operations on that day only after 2 pm. ...
02:49 PM, Mar 24, 2013
Reaching out to commuters who use smartphones, Delhi Metro will soon launch a mobile application which will provide information regarding fares and stations including new ones coming up in Phase III. ...
12:53 PM, Mar 19, 2013
Reaching out to commuters who use smartphones, Delhi Metro will soon launch a mobile application which will provide information regarding fares and stations including new ones coming up in Phase III. The application is expected to work offline without Internet/GPRS (one time download) which means that users will incur no running cost on it. Users will also be able to download latest version of application. ...
10:01 AM, Mar 17, 2013
To foil any terror strike, the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) is planning to install 900 more CCTV cameras across the Delhi Metro network this year, its chief said on Friday. ...
01:44 AM, Mar 09, 2013
The Urban Development ministry on Wednesday said there was no question of inquiry into implementation of Airport Express metro line at this stage as it had not received any final recommendation in the audit report. ...
05:56 PM, Mar 06, 2013
Delhi Metro on Thursday got a budgetary allocation of Rs 7,701 crore for construction of its ambitious Phase-III project that envisages extending the modern transport system further in the national capital. Finance Minister P Chidambaram announced in his 2013-2014 Budget that the Central Government will infuse Rs 650 crore as its equity, while it will get a pass through assistance of Rs 1750 crore. ...
02:54 PM, Feb 28, 2013
Controversy has risen over the Delhi Metro extension from Delhi's Dilshad Garden to New Bus Stand here with the Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation unwilling to fund the project but the municipal commissioner seeking the Uttar Pradesh government's permission to overrule it. ...
12:26 AM, Feb 27, 2013
The swanky Airport Metro Express Line (AMEL) in the capital will run at higher speed from Monday, an official said. ...
01:39 AM, Feb 11, 2013
Reliance Infrastructure-led Delhi Airport Metro Express has increased fares on the high-speed corridor at a time when the train speed has been drastically reduced to 50 km per hour. The 50 per cent fare hike came into effect on Wednesday just a day after commercial operations on the 23-km corridor resumed after a gap of six months. ...
07:49 PM, Jan 23, 2013
The Airport Metro Express Line (AMEL) in the capital is expected to resume operations shortly, nearly six months after it was shut down on safety concerns, a Delhi Metro official said on Friday. ...
08:40 PM, Jan 18, 2013
Travel in Delhi Metro might get costlier five months down the line with a Fare Fixation Committee appointed by the Government expected to come out with its recommendations on fare hike by the middle of this year. ...
05:04 PM, Jan 17, 2013
