METRO MARCH: Metro construction work in full swing with the help of two Tunnel Boring Machines near INA Market on Tuesday. In a major push for expansion of the Delhi Metro network, the Japan Bank for International Cooperation has advanced a loan of 72,100 million yen to the Delhi Metro …
Japan on Monday approved a massive loan package of about Rs. 7,074 crore in the form of soft loan assistance for various projects including Delhi and Kolkata Metro, infrastructure project in Tamil Nadu, transmission project in Haryana and road projects in Hyderabad. The areas to be covered under the new …
The UT Administration, in principle, has decided that the metro rail system in Chandigarh will be entirely underground. As regards the positioning of rail lines in Punjab and Haryana, the decision has been left to the states. Earlier, the administration had planned to run the metro underground only in the …
Chandigarh, Karnataka, Andhra keen on project Keen to spread the network of Metro rail across the country, the Centre has decided to enact a law aimed at addressing the legal hurdles in such an endeavour. The Bill to amend the Delhi Metro Operation and Maintenance Act, 2002, will be introduced …
The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) which has taken up mass transport system projects like Metro rail, Mono Rail, BRT etc will soon get one more partner for its ongoing developmental projects - BEST Undertaking. According to the new proposal, the BEST is going to provide its prime spaces …
Mumbaiites will finally be able to board their first Metro Rail train by July 2010, according to Mumbai Metro One Private Ltd (MMOPL) Director K P Maheshwari who made a presentation before Chief Secretary Johny Joseph last week. "In the presentation, Maheshwari said that by November-December 2009, the tests and …
Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh on Thursday announced that work on two more corridors of the Metro rail will begin in four months and the government will explore sky rail and water transport options too to lighten the existing load on the local trains. He was speaking after inaugurating the first …
Constructing a 233-metre concrete bridge 17 metres above the ground with crush-packed local trains zipping past down below; constructing a viaduct at 7 metres above the Andheri flyover on Western Express Highway
The Azadpur Gaon Welfare Association has urged the Delhi High Court to halt the project of building a mall-cum-Metro station by Delhi Development Authority (DDA) and Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) at Ring Road Azadpur as it is being built at the reserved green area. Puneet Mittal, counsel for the …
The Delhi High Court today reserved its orders on a bunch of petitions filed by environmentalists challenging the construction of the 2010 Commonwealth Games village site on the banks of river Yamuna. The court reserved its order after hearing the petitioners' ecological concerns over the construction of the Games village …
The hearing of the writ petition by CMH Shops and Establishments, and Residents Association and others challenging the alignment of Metro through the CMH Road and 100 feet Road in Indiranagar stood adjourned to February 25. Earlier, at the hearing on Monday, State Government filed its counter statement defending the …
Giving planning for the much-delayed Metro Rail in the city a further boost, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has jumped into the fray, deciding to integrate its plans for underground and multi-level parking lots with the Metro Rail project. These parking lots will now be a stone's throw away from …
