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Four decades of Calcutta Metro : The unstoppable journey

Finally, on 24 October 1984, Calcutta got its memorable Diwali gift, as the 75th city in the world and as the first city of India to have a commercially active underground tube line of 3.4 km covering only five stations: Esplanade, Park Street, Maidan, Rabindra Sadan and Bhawanipur.

Metro to run extended services at night

In what should come as good news to city commuters, the Kolkata Metro Railway has decided to run special services on the Blue Line on an experimental basis at night from today.