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.
As a part of the celebration of 40 years of Kolkata Metro Railway, a heritage run of an NGEF rake was organised by the carrier today.
As part of the planned maintenance activities at Vishwavidyalaya Metro station on the Delhi Metro's Yellow Line (Samaypur Badli – Millennium City Centre Gurugram), train services on the Line will be briefly regulated in the early morning hours of October 11 till 6:25 am.
The victim has been identified as 28-year-old Devendra Kumar, a resident of Tijara in Alwar district, Rajasthan.
The Kolkata Metro Railway has decided to decrease the number of services on 17 September following the holiday for ‘Vishwakarma Puja.’
Even after 37 years since Kolkata earned its platitudinous nickname from Dominique Lapierre’s novel, the destitution of rickshaw pullers witnesses meagre change
As the rake MR 501 chugged out of the platform at Dum Dum this evening, it came as a boon to the operations as its addition to the existing fleet is expected to result in more number of services
According to the city Metro railway office, the mass carrier has decided to run 60 services on 7 March in the north-south line.
The Electronic Interlocking work started last night after the service hours and was completed successfully this morning before services started, and was done without hampering commercial services on the Blue Line.
The Chennai Metro Phase-I extension was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on February 14 last year.
