Mumbai: The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) undertook two ambitious projects, the Metro and Monorail, to solve the Mumbai commuter's woes. However, the routes selected by the planning authority have raised some serious doubts, as commuters feel that the routes pass unfrequented areas. Monorail Phase I of the Rs 2,700 crore Jacob Circle-Wadala-Chembur (JWC) Monorail is between Wadala-Chembur, while Phase II is between Jacob Circle-Wadala. Concerned Chembur resident, 24...
05:58 PM, May 27, 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
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
16 years after becoming Managing Director of DMRC, E Sreedharan stepped down on December 31 leaving behind a 190 km network across the NCR. ...
09:19 PM, Apr 14, 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: Violence erupted at Delhi's Tilak Nagar Metro station late on Tuesday night. The incident occurred after a group of men allegedly misbehaved with a woman on the train. When the CISF personnel resorted to lathicharge, the mob attacked them as well. One compartment of a metro was damaged in the incident. ...
08:42 AM, Feb 01, 2012
Bhadohi: Three persons on Thursday were arrested for allegedly cheating unemployed youths in the name of providing them jobs in Delhi Metro Rail Corporation. Shiv Prakash Gautam, Virendra Gautam and Santosh Gautam were arrested and sent to jail after a police team detected that they were taking interview of candidates for providing them job in DMRC at their office, police said. Later, during interrogation they said they were taking Rs...
08:22 PM, Jan 19, 2012
16 years after becoming Managing Director of DMRC, E Sreedharan stepped down on December 31 leaving behind a 190 km network across the NCR. ...
06:34 PM, Jan 07, 2012
New Delhi: The man who gave us the Delhi metro and Konkan railways has hung up his boots. The face of Delhi Metro, E Sreedharan, retired on Saturday. He gave Delhi its new identity and achieved the near-impossible breaking through red tape to build the Delhi Metro. However, 16 years after he became Managing Director DMRC in 1995 - E Sreedharan - is stepped down on the last day of...
06:04 PM, Jan 01, 2012
New Delhi: The man who gave the Metro Rail to Delhi, E Sreedharan, retired on Saturday. On his last day at work, he said, "It was a very glorious journey for me. We started with nothing and we produced hundreds of kilometres for the Delhi Metro." "It was a very satisfying experience," he added. ...
09:10 AM, Jan 01, 2012
New Delhi: The face of Delhi Metro, E Sreedharan, retires on Saturday. He gave Delhi its new identity and achieved the near-impossible breaking through red tape to build the Delhi Metro. However, 16 years after he became Managing Director DMRC in 1995 - E Sreedharan - is stepping down. He leaves behind a 190 km network across the National Capital Region, now considered the fastest growing Metro network anywhere in...
07:30 AM, Dec 31, 2011
New Delhi: E Sreedharan will retire as DMRC chief on Saturday and hand over reins to colleague Mangu Singh after a highly successful 16-year tenure during which he transformed the capital's transport sector through Metro. 79-year-old Sreedharan, who joined the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation in 1995, will formally hand over charge to Singh, a veteran Civil Engineer, on Saturday evening at a brief ceremony at the 'Metro Bhawan' in New...
03:36 PM, Dec 30, 2011
New Delhi: Making its debut on a small 8km stretch on this day in 2002, Delhi Metro has had a stupendous journey in the last nine years with its network spreading far and wide across the National Capital Region giving the people an affordable mode of transport. Delhi Metro on Saturday completed nine years of operations in the national capital and now it has a network of nearly 200km, including...
03:15 PM, Dec 24, 2011
New Delhi: Delhi Metro trains will not run after 8 pm on Diwali. According to Delhi Metro, the last train will start at 8 pm on Wednesday from the all the terminal stations of the six lines-- Dilshad Garden-Rithala, Jahangir Puri- Huda City Centre, Noida City Centre-Dwarka Sector-21, Yamuna Bank- Vaishali, Inderlok-Mundka and Central Secretariat-Badarpur. Metro train services will run as usual for rest of the day on Diwali from...
12:47 PM, Oct 25, 2011
New Delhi: The process of finding a successor to DMRC chief E Sreedharan is likely to be completed much before his extended tenure comes to an end on December 31. Delhi Chief Secretary PK Tripathi, who is a member of the panel to select a successor to Sreedharan, said the process would be completed "very soon". "The selection process is going on and it will be completed much before December...
10:38 AM, Oct 02, 2011
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