The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) on Monday told the Delhi high court that it has ₹6,208.03 crore in its various bank accounts, a day after Delhi Airport Metro Express Private Limited (DAMEPL) filed an application in the court seeking contempt action against the former for not disclosing its complete bank account details. DAMEPL, a […]
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Bus, railway stations in Hyderabad brim with Sankranti rush
Even as the Telangana health department authorities have sounded a high alert over the surge in Covid-19 cases fuelled by the Omicron variant, railway and bus stations saw a huge rush of passengers heading home in coastal Andhra Pradesh for Sankranti festivities. State director of health G Srinivas Rao cautioned the people about the rapid […]
Government Railway Police records five-year high of untraced NDPS cases in Ludhiana in 2021
Ludhiana The Government Railway Police (GRP) in 2021 recorded a five-year high of untraced cases accepted by local Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) court. A total of 21 NDPS cases were marked as “untraced” by the court, in comparison to nine recorded in the four-year period between 2017 to 2020 combined. Four cases were […]
Trains in Chennai region open only for vaccinated travellers: Southern Railway
In view of the steep rise in new Covid-19 cases in Tamil Nadu, passengers who have received the two doses of vaccination would be allowed to travel on its suburban services with effect from January 10, the Southern Railway said on Saturday. In the latest set of guidelines issued by it, passengers with two doses […]
Railways planning to levy fee for boarding/alighting at redeveloped stations
The Indian Railways is planning to levy a station development fee on passengers boarding or alighting at redeveloped stations. A report carried by news agency PTI said the fee ranging from ₹10 to ₹50 will be charged from the passengers depending on their class of travel. The fee will be levied only after such stations […]
Despite security threat, scanners at Ludhiana railway station remain defunct
In the aftermath of the Ludhiana court complex blast, new luggage scanners were installed at the railway station. However, some of these scanners remain non-functional. A scanner on the entry, another scanner on the extreme right of the Civil Lines entry point, and two newly installed scanners on the foot over bridge leading to the […]
After fresh Covid-19 restrictions, Delhi Metro to run at 100% seating capacity
Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) on Wednesday announced that it will operate metros with 100% seating capacity without any standing passenger in compliance with the fresh guidelines released by the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA). “In wake of the latest guidelines issued by [the] DDMA, Delhi Metro will be running with the 100% seating capacity […]
Passengers to face 15 min delay between CSMT and Kalyan
MUMBAI: Passengers travelling by local trains on the mainline between Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) and Kalyan on the Central Railway (CR) network will face inconvenience till Friday. Local train services between CSMT and Kalyan railway stations will operate with a delay of 15 minutes. The delay will be due to speed restrictions that have […]
Agra metro rail track laying work to begin soon
Metro track laying work would begin soon inside Agra metro depot. Nearly 60 percent of depot construction work has been completed and process of procurement and laying of metro rail track in the metro depot is likely to commence soon. The rail tracks have been procured from a plant situated in Haryana’s Sonipat district, officials […]
200 local and 14 outstation trains cancelled during 24 hours mega block
MUMBAI: Owing to the 24 hours mega block operated between Kalva and Diva railway stations on Sunday, nearly 200 local trains and 14 outstation trains were cancelled by the Central Railway (CR). The delays in local train operations up to 8 minutes are likely to continue for the next four days due to caution speed […]
Commuters urge Central Railway to run more trains on Nerul, Belapur, Kharkopar line
The residents of Ulwe and its peripheries are inconvenienced as the Central Railway (CR) has not been running sufficient trains on the Nerul-Belapur-Kharkopar line. The trains on this line ferry the commuters to Nerul and Belapur stations alternately and thereby give access to trains on the harbour line (Panvel-CSMT). However, the CR is running very […]
Delhi: DMRC completes first tunnelling drive on Phase 4 Metro corridor
The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) on Friday said it has completed constructing a 1.4km long tunnel at the Krishna Park Extension–the first ever tunneling stretch on the Janakpuri West – RK Ashram Marg corridor–with the help of a tunnel boring machine (TBM). The main tunneling work on the stretch commenced in April this year […]