Dubai: The growing number of suicides on metro tracks in India could be avoided if a new advanced technology and communications system, which provides for driverless trains and quick response to prevent such accidents, is put in place. Thales Group, which has an impeccable track record in Dubai and other cities - where it provides supervision, communications, and security and fare collection facilities, has offered India its advanced Communications-based train...
01:19 PM, May 27, 2012
Tokyo: The Delhi Metro's expansion plans got a boost with Japan keen to participate in its future projects as well as carry out feasibility study for the capital's mono rail systems and urban transportation. "We met the Japan International cooperation agency (JICA) officials yesterday and talked about participation in metros, also to look if they can do a study for mono rail systems and urban transportation," visiting Urban Development minister...
04:11 PM, May 24, 2012
New Delhi: A 22-year-old youth committed suicide by jumping from an elevated Delhi Metro station in New Delhi on Tuesday, police said, in the fourth such incident on the network in six days. Anil Kumar, a resident of JJ Colony in Okhla, committed suicide at the Govindpuri metro station in south Delhi at around 11.30 am. Kumar was taken to a hospital where he was declared dead. The reason for...
04:36 PM, May 08, 2012
New Delhi: A 55-year-old man allegedy tried to commit suicide by jumping before a running Metro train at a station in New Delhi. The man tried to jump before the train at the INA station around 12 pm which was going towards Jahangir Puri, sources said. An alert train operator applied emergency brakes and the person was taken off the tracks. He was rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment....
07:54 PM, May 05, 2012
New Delhi: A woman on Friday committed suicide by jumping off from an elevated metro station in Delhi. She reportedly jumped off from the building of the Kirti Nagar metro station in the western part of the capital. This is the second suicide at a Delhi Metro station in two days. On Thursday, a 28-year-old woman died from injuries sustained when she jumped from the MG Road metro station onto...
03:58 PM, May 04, 2012
New Delhi: A 27-year old woman attempted to commit suicide and jumped from the MG Road metro station on Wednesday morning. Priya has been taken to a nearby hospital and is critical at the moment. The woman hails from Mathura and works in HDFC bank. With Additional Inputs from IANS ...
12:12 PM, May 03, 2012
Faridabad: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Sunday said the Delhi Metro will be extended up to Faridabad district. There was a plan to extend Metro up to Ballabhgarh town in the district, he told a gathering. Hooda said out of a total expenditure of Rs 2,500 crore, the state government had given more than Rs 1,500 crore for this purpose. He said the cross canal part of Faridabad...
11:57 PM, Apr 22, 2012
Sixteen years after becoming the Managing Director of DMRC, E Sreedharan stepped down on December 31 leaving behind a 190 km network of Delhi Metro across the NCR. In an interview with CNBC-TV18's Shereen Bhan, the metro man said that it was not so much as the politicians as the bureaucrats of the country who were stalling its progress. Below is the full transcript of the interview: Shereen Bhan: Hello...
11:59 PM, Apr 16, 2012
New Delhi: Thousands of commuters were stranded at various Metro stations in the national capital during the morning rush hours on Thursday after trains were delayed due to a technical problem. Commuters in the city were a harassed lot as they were already reeling under the traffic restrictions for the BRICS Summit. Trains on the busy Line 3 that connects Noida and Ghaziabad with Dwarka were delayed since 8.30 in...
02:15 PM, Mar 29, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) on Wednesday began construction work for a nearly 14-km link to connect the satellite town Faridabad in Haryana with the national capital. The foundation laying for the pillars of the 13.875 km stretch began on Wednesday at Faridabad in the presence of Delhi Metro managing director Mangu Singh and officials of the Haryana government. "Over 500 pillars will be erected to make...
08:34 PM, Mar 28, 2012
New Delhi: A young woman on Sunday allegedly committed suicide by jumping in front of a running train at a Metro station in south Delhi. The woman, in her twenties, jumped in front of the train which was going towards Jahangirpuri from Gurgaon at the Malviya Nagar Metro station. The incident happened at 11.27 am. The driver applied emergency brakes but could not save the victim, sources said. ...
12:35 PM, Mar 25, 2012
New Delhi: Delhi Metro on Friday got a budgetary allocation of Rs 2,200 crore for construction of its ambitious Phase-III project that envisages extending the modern transport system further in the national capital. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee announced in his 2012-2013 Budget that the Central Government will infuse Rs 1,112.57 crore as its equity, while it will get a pass through assistance of Rs 749.12 crore. He said Rs 2,116.69...
06:14 PM, Mar 16, 2012
New Delhi: Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi is likely to spell out a blue print for upgrading signaling and telecommunication system to prevent accidents in the upcoming Rail Budget despite financial constraints. Besides, the Rail Budget will have proposals for state-of-the-art coach manufacturing units in Karnataka and Gujarat. Railways which has sought Rs 50,000 crore from Finance Ministry as gross budgetary support (GBS), has got only Rs 25,000 crore for the...
06:57 PM, Mar 12, 2012
New Delhi: The high-level rail safety review committee headed by former Atomic Energy Commission chairman Anil Kakodkar will present its report on Friday, which is understood to have favoured separate cadres for diesel and electric locomotive drivers and upgrading tracks. The report, which will be presented just weeks ahead of the Rail Budget 2012-13, is understood to have also stressed for better signalling system which could be in-cab signal technology...
05:20 PM, Feb 16, 2012
New Delhi: Very soon, Delhi Metro commuters can use their 'smart cards' for travel in DTC and cluster bus services in the city that would eventually be integrated with the national common mobility card. The step would help commuters use all kinds of transport in the city with one single card and make payments through that. To facilitate its implement, a series of high-level meetings have taken place at the...
04:06 PM, Feb 14, 2012
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