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Stampede-like situation as fire breaks out in Kolkata Metro; 16 injured

IMAGE: Rescue officials offer an oxygen mask to a metro passenger after several passengers were taken ill due to smoke inside an air-conditioned coach of the Kolkata Metro, in Kolkata, on......

Kolkata Metro creates history, runs rake under river for first time in India

Kolkata Metro created history on Wednesday when its rake ran through a tunnel under a river for the first time in the country, a senior official said in Kolkata. IMAGE: Image used for......

Two coaches of Kolkata Metro derail, services hit

Two coaches of a metro train derailed near Central station in Kolkata during rush hour on Wednesday morning, triggering panic among hundreds of office-goers and disrupting services. However, no......

Covid: All trains, metro, inter-state buses shut till March 31

All inter-state buses, passenger trains and metro services have been suspended across the country till March 31, while 80 districts in 17 states and five Union Territories including Delhi where......

Mamata keeps Buddha away from Prez function

In a snub to Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, Mamata Banerjee-led Railways kept the Communist Party of India-Marxist veteran away from the ceremony attended by President Pratibha Patil to......

India's remarkable metro rail systems

India has developed Rapid Transit systems to make travel easier for commuters across cities. While Metro rail is successfully running across 4 cities, more metro rail systems, and monorail are......

Metro rail: Of Dubai and India

Hailed as the world's longest automated driverless project, the Dubai Metro Project opened to the public on September 9, 2009. Built at a cost of $7.6 billion, the first metro rail in the......

You will soon be riding metro rail in these 12 cities

Two buses, 120 minutes and a couple of inane conversations later Ritu trod wearily into class at Hindu College, North Campus . . . That was a month ago. Today, Ritu's journey across Delhi is not......

Kolkata metro corridor may hit Mamata hurdle

The East-West corridor of Kolkata Metro rail -- India's first underwater transport project -- might face delay and fresh planning as Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee has 'sought details' about......

More funds for Metro Rail projects

The funding for Metro Railway projects will be hiked by 5 per cent. The Kolkata Metro will be extended inside the city, Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee said while presenting the Budget on...

Anil's cleverly packaged one-man show

How can a filmmaker build a suspense thriller brilliantly and then squander it away on a tame exposition? Perhaps Sudhir Mishra, director of such gripping films as Dharavi, Main Zinda Hoon andIs......

Bollywood's FABULOUS train journeys!

On the silver screen, the significance of trains can be traced all the way back through its use in innumerable movies. As means of transport or metaphor, the romance of trains is unmistakable in......

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