Pune: The feeder bus service facility provided by public transport utility Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamanadal Limited (PMPML) for Pune Metro passengers has received good response. Around 213,958 passengers in Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad have used the service in September. PMPML earned an income of around ₹27 lakh as it daily made 26 trips through 10 buses […]
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Man opens fire inside Sealdah-Rajdhani Express; arrested
A man was arrested on Thursday after he opened fire inside Sealdah-Rajdhani Express. However, there were no casualties. The passenger had boarded the train from Dhanbad station in Jharkhand on the train heading to New Delhi. According to Eastern Railways officials, the passenger named Harvinder Singh (41) started arguing with the coach attendant and then […]
RRTS: Paid parking made available at five stations on priority section
Ahead of the inauguration of the country’s first section of the Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) in Ghaziabad, the National Capital Region Transport Corporation (NCRTC), the agency executing the RRTS project, said it has provided parking for vehicles at all five stations on the stretch and the first 10 minutes –for picking or dropping passengers […]
Watch: Railway cop saves passenger who slipped while trying to board moving Vande Bharat
A Railway Protection Force (RPF) constable rescued a male passenger at Howrah railway station when the latter slipped while trying to board a moving Vande Bharat Express on Tuesday. The passenger was rushing to catch the Howrah – Puri Vande Bharat Express, which departed from the platform. Thinking the door was open, the man tried […]
Railway employee dies by suicide after becoming a victim of sextortion
Mumbai: A 36-year-old railway employee died by suicide recently after he got trapped in a sextortion racket and lost ₹2 lakh. The Dadar Government Railway Police (GRP) registered a case of abetment to suicide and extortion against unknown persons for allegedly blackmailing the victim with his nude photos. According to the GRP, on Monday around […]
Bengaluru Metro’s Purple Line begins its full operations: 5 things to know
The Bengaluru Metro’s Purple Line started its full operation on Monday morning without any formal or informal inaugural ceremony. The operations finally began at two crucial Metro stretches on the purple line – Krishnarajapuram-Baiyappanahalli and Kengeri-Challaghatta – connecting east Bengaluru to central and south Bengaluru. Five things to know about the Purple Line Metro 1. […]
Railways to set up restaurants in retired train coaches at Jammu, Katra stations
The Indian Railways is converting two abandoned railway coaches into theme-based restaurants at Katra and Jammu railway stations here. The initiative has been named “Beautiful Restaurants on Wheels” under which old train coaches are being refurbished and transformed into rail coach restaurants. “Two rail-coach restaurants are under work in Jammu and Katra. This is a […]
Pune Metro introduces ‘One Pune Vidyarthi Pass’ for students
In a bid to provide swift, secure and cashless transactions to students while reducing their travel- time and expenditure, the Pune Metro Thursday launched the ‘One Pune Vidyarthi Pass’. The pass will be operational from Friday. In an inaugural gesture, the Pune Metro is offering the first 10,000 such passes/cards free-of-cost on a ‘first-come, first-serve’ […]
Mumbai suburban train services partially suspended between Belapur and Panvel
The Central Railway suspended local train operations on the Trans-harbour line between Belapur and Panvel stations near Mumbai on Thursday morning, after failing to complete works in the scheduled time during night block, officials said. Trains not to run between Belapur (Navi Mumbai) and Panvel (Raigad) till 11 am on Thursday (on the Trans-harbour line) […]
Pune Metro Line 3 to debut ‘Third Rail System’ in city
PUNE: In what will do away with electric poles and tangled overhead wires on the metro tracks, the Pune Metro Line 3 or ‘Puneri Metro’ is all set to debut the innovative ‘third rail system’ in the city. In this system, an additional rail track known as a live rail/electric rail/conductor rail introduced alongside the […]
Bengaluru metro’s purple line likely to be fully operational from October 6: Report
The much awaited two stretches on Bengaluru metro’s purple line, Krishnarajapuram – Baiyappanahalli and Kengeri – Challaghatta lines are likely to be operated from October 6, said a Moneycontrol report. With the inauguration of these two crucial metro lines, the entire purple line will be fully operational, expected to decongest the infamous East Bengaluru traffic. […]
Pune Metro ridership touches 9,61 lakh during Ganesh festival
PUNE The Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation Limited (Maha-Metro) has recorded almost one million ridership and earned around ₹ 1.41 crore during the Ganesh festival. Vanaz to Ramwadi (line-2) got more response than the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC)-Swargate (Line-1) route, said officials. Metro Line -1 operates from Vanaz to Ruby Hall Clinic whereas Metro Line […]