40-year-old man jumped in front of a Delhi Metro train in New Delhi on Sunday evening but escaped without any serious injury due to the driver's prompt action in stopping, officials said. The incident led to train services on the blue line (Noida City Centre-Dwarka) being disrupted for about 20 minutes. ...
11:06 PM, Dec 16, 2012
Kolkata: Panic gripped the passengers of Metro Railway in Kolkata on Thursday evening when smoke billowed out of a coach of a train at Mahatma Gandhi Road station. The driver of the train stopped the train as soon as all the lights of third coach went off following a sound at about 9.02 pm, CPRO Pratyush Ghosh said. The driver of Dum Dum-bound train found smoke coming out of the...
11:24 PM, Aug 30, 2012
New Delhi: 8:40 am: Power supply was restored in some parts of North India including Punjab and Jammu an Kashmir. Seven states in North India have been facing a long power cut since late Sunday night. Due to a massive breakdown in the northern grid, there has been a major power failure which has affected seven north Indian states. There is no power in Delhi and neighbouring states since 2...
06:23 AM, Jul 30, 2012
Kochi: Changing the face of Kochi city and also the lives of its citizens, the Kochi Metro train will make its dream run in about three or four years. The last hurdle for its implementation was removed when the Union Cabinet cleared the project on Tuesday. The Rs 5,126-crore project, which has been hanging in the balance for the past couple of years, will mark a leap for the state...
11:29 AM, Jul 04, 2012
KOCHI: The Kochi Metro Rail will be operated using the most modern Korean technology - Maglev, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) chairman E Sreedharan has said. He was briefing the media after meeting Union Minister of State for Food and Civil Supplies K V Thomas in New Delhi on Wednesday. Maglev (the shortened word for magnetic levitation) trains will float over a guideway using the basic principles of magnets to...
08:50 AM, Nov 17, 2011
Johannesburg: Despite suffering a narrow six-run loss to Chennai Super Kings, Mumbai Indians skipper Harbhajan Singh appreciated the efforts of his boys and said he was proud of his team for putting up a fight in their Champions League Twenty20 match here. Chennai were off to a blistering start as they notched up 86 in 8.1 overs initially but Mumbai did well to restrict them to 173-8 in 20 overs ...
02:51 AM, Jul 10, 2008
