The Hyderabad Metro Rail will hit the tracks by the end of 2014 and ferry about 15 lakh passengers every day, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy said in Hyderabad on Sunday. Speaking after inaugurating certain works of Hyderabad Metro, he said the first trial run would be held in June 2014. ...
09:09 AM, Nov 26, 2012
Hyderabad: L&T Metro Rail (Hyderabad) Limited has awarded the signalling and train control and communication system contracts to Thales, a global technology leader in the defence, aerospace and transportation markets. The signalling and train control contract has been given to Thales Canada and Thales India, while the communication system contract has been awarded to Thales Portugal and Thales India. Siemens, Invensys and Bombardier were among the other bidders for these...
04:00 PM, Nov 16, 2012
Hyderabad: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) will take up the demolition of properties coming under the Hyderabad Metro Rail project from the first week of October. The government directed the GHMC to speed up the pending demolition of structures after passing the award and compensations to the affected house owners. The GHMC has identified as many as 1,188 structures in the three proposed corridors for which 349 awards have...
02:40 PM, Sep 21, 2012
Hyderabad: As of now, there is no proposal from the government to extend the routes of the proposed three corridors of the Hyderabad Metro Rail Project Limited (HMRL), minister for municipal administration M Maheedhar Reddy said here on Tuesday. Releasing a CD and booklet on Metro Railchhene (folk songs in Telugu on metro rail) in his chamber at the Secretariat in the presence of HMRL managing director NVS Reddy, Maheedhar...
02:39 PM, Sep 19, 2012
Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Metro Rail (HMR) authorities have repeatedly assured one and all that even though 3,000 trees had to be cut down to make way for the new service, they would do their best to compensate for the same by translocating trees to the Outer Ring Road and planting saplings along the metro route. So far, they have translocated 384 of the 1250 trees uprooted last year between Miyapur...
02:50 PM, Sep 05, 2012
Hyderabad: Ganesh Chaturthi is just a month away and theres already talk of pollution, clay idols and what not. But what do the artisans themselves think? A quick check has revealed two facts. One, this time, there could be some sort of shortage of idols compared to the last few years. Second, we are nowhere near a green Ganesh festival. Around this time of the year, the Miyapur stretch is...
02:11 PM, Aug 06, 2012
Hyderabad: Are you a BSNL user having network disruptions off and on? If you are, stop blaming the mobile operator. The culprit, according to the company, is the metro rail. BSNL principal general manager (Hyderabad) PV Muralidhar took the metro rail authorities head-on, saying, There are other reasons for faulty cables, but the ongoing metro rail works have damaged a lot of our underground cables. Whenever we receive complaints, we...
02:52 PM, Aug 03, 2012
Hyderabad: Metro Rail station design features have been broadly finalised by the L&T Metro Rail Hyderabad Ltd, with approval of the HMR authorities. Foolproof security features will be incorporated in the station design after the approval from various security wings under the Ministry of Home Affairs. The main security features include access- controlled passenger entry, baggage checking system, installation of CCTV cameras and other surveillance equipment, resembling the airport security...
12:46 PM, Jul 16, 2012
Hyderabad: Clock has started ticking for the Hyderabad Metro Rail (HMR) project as July 5, 2012 has been declared as the appointed date and the construction of the project will have to be completed within five years, counting from Thursday. The state government and L&T Metro Rail Hyderabad Ltd (L&TMRHL) has agreed on the apponited date here on Thursday. Hyderabad Metro Limited managing director NVS Reddy and L&T Metro managing...
02:33 PM, Jul 06, 2012
Hyderabad: By now everyone has dissected the Hyderabad Metro Rail proposals threadbare and aired their views, either against or in favour of the project. But theres one man who has done a PhD on it and came up with some really interesting suggestions. Sample this: The elevated rail near the State Assembly would be about 50ft high. There are a lot of safety concerns when the session is on. So,...
01:04 PM, Jul 06, 2012
HYDERABAD:With the Hyderabad Metro Rail project picking up momentum, environmental activists and concerned citizens are raising their voice against the destruction of trees in the city. About 3,000 trees need to be removed or translocated in the three metro rail corridors. Of them, the HMR corporation has already felled 340 and translocated 384 but is finding it difficult to uproot 3 others on the LB Nagar-Miyapur stretch where the initial...
09:25 AM, May 07, 2012
HYDERABAD: The Hyderabad Metro Rail Limited (HMR) has selected a Spanish consultancy firm, Eptisa Servicios de Ingenieria, through international competitive bidding as consultant on safety matters. Based on the combined technical and financial score, Eptisa Ingenieria with its quote of Rs 1.30 crore has been preferred to Bureau Veritas, a French consultancy firm, which quoted Rs 1.48 crore. The selection was made by the HMR Tender Committee for Major Works...
08:41 AM, Apr 02, 2012
HYDERABAD: The tall claims of the State government to develop Greater Hyderabad on a par with other metropolitan cities did not reflect in the State Budget presented in the Assembly on Friday. Civic bodies like the GHMC, Water Board and the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) have little to cheer about given the miniscule budgetary allocation. The only plus point is that the government has increased allocation to the prestigious...
08:19 AM, Feb 18, 2012
Hyderabad: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will visit Hyderabad on February 4 to lay the foundation-stone for the Rs 12,000 crore Hyderabad Metro Rail Project, state Congress Committee president Botsa Satyanarayana said on Saturday. The Prime Minister would also hand over appointment letters to some of the unemployed youths who have been placed in private jobs as part of the 'Yuva Kiranalu' programme launched by the state government, Botsa said briefing...
11:15 PM, Jan 21, 2012
HYDERABAD: For a smooth flow of traffic during the construction of metro rail, the Hyderabad Metro Rail, Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, National Highways Authority of India and the state roads buildings department have initiated several preparatory works on priority stretches. According to HMR managing director NVS Reddy, roads will be barricaded to a width of 26 feet (8 metres) between Nagole and Mettuguda (8 km) on Metro Rail CorridorIII, and...
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11:42 PM, Oct 19, 2009
Family purchased close to 6,500 acres through Maytas Properties. ...
01:01 AM, Jan 14, 2009
It's a real estate-political scandal waiting to happen, Sreedharan says. ...
02:06 AM, Nov 22, 2008
Red-faced state govt asks Sreedharan to apologise, says it'll sue him otherwise. ...
01:56 PM, Sep 23, 2008
