Alstom is accused of paying bribes to Indian public officials to secure Delhi metro contracts.
The Metro stations which will remain closed are Pragati Maidan, Mandi House, Barakhamba Road, Rajiv Chowk, Patel Chowk, Central Secretariat, Udyog Bhawan, Race Course and Khan Market.
At one level, the ongoing tussle between the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) and the Anil Ambani-controlled Delhi Airport Metro Express Pvt Ltd (DAMEPL) may confirm the misgivings of those who think public-private partnerships (PPPs) are a risky way of bridging the infrastructure gap.
Reliance Infrastructure's Delhi Airport Express, the first public-private partnership in Metro rail services, is set to restart operation from 5 am on Tuesday, after remaining shut for six months.
Six Metro stations in central Delhi, which were earlier announced to be closed for 10 hours due to security concerns over protest by Arvind Kejriwal and supporters, remained open throughout the day on Sunday.
With CPCB saying that the air quality is not severe now, the SC partially lifted its ban.
Dismal ridership figures and eroding profitability could turn this showcase transit project into a white elephant.
Describing E Sreedharan as a man of great vision and impeachable integrity, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has said the Metro Man, who retires on Saturday, gave Delhi a "new identity" for which people of the city will always miss him.
Distance between Bengaluru and Mysuru is 130 km only.
Mangu Singh will take over from E Sreedharan.
The weekend curfew, aimed at breaking the chain of spiralling coronavirus infections, was clamped at 10 pm on Friday and will continue till 5 am on Monday.
The Jamia Millia Islamia on Saturday declared vacation till January 5 and cancelled all exams in view of the tense situation in the university due to students' protest against the amended citizenship act.
The sky turned cloudy around 4:30pm and gusty winds swept the national capital.
Police fired tear gas shells as members of the two groups pelted stones at each other in Maujpur. For security reasons, the entry and exit gates of the Maujpur-Babarpur metro station were closed. Gates of the Jaffrabad station were also closed earlier in the day.
As the construction of Metro networks gets underway in 12 cities, taking the tube could soon be a way of life.
The first tranche of central government funding for the third phase of the Delhi Metro commuter rail project is likely to come in the coming 2011-12 Budget.
Minister for Urban Development S.Jaipal Reddy Union on Wednesday said that the Delhi Metro is the proudest achievement of modern India. He further mentioned that the ministry has taken some important decisions relating to urban transport to help the daily commuters and ease traffic congestion.
With the Centre issuing guidelines for their resumption under Unlock 4, the rapid transit networks started operations in a graded manner in Delhi-NCR, Lucknow, Kochi, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Ahmedabad, but were still closed in Mumbai, Nagpur, Kolkata and Jaipur.
Police said they will not allow the farmers protesting against the Centre's new farm laws to enter Delhi if they reach the borders of the national capital.
A full bench of the Central Information Commission will decide the tricky issue of whether the design of the pillar collapsed last year can be made public under the RTI Act or the IPR over the same allow DMRC to withhold it.
Union Urban Development Minister S Jaipal Reddy said Metro rail system in cities like Mumbai and Chennai will be built on standard gauge, which is used in most of the new age transport systems in the world.
At least 12 persons were injured, including two seriously, when two cranes collapsed at a Delhi Metro Railway Construction site in southern Delhi. The accident occurred on the Connaught Place-Gurgaon railway line.According to DMRC sources, the mishap occurred in the Said-ul-Ajaib area, which is located near the historical Qutub Minar. The injured have been rushed to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences and Safdarjung Hospitals for treatment.
Delhi Metro on Friday rolled out its new fleet of broad gauge trains, which are more faster and swankier than the present ones, as DMRC chief E Sreedharan promised more trains to meet the ever-increasing passenger rush on the new age transport system.
The Delhi Metro on Wenesday started taking action in connection with the back-to-back mishaps at a construction site here with removal of a senior official and initiated security audit of its critical structures.
The Delhi Metro chief E Sreedharan on Monday withdrew his resignation from the post, a day after he put in his papers owning moral responsibility for an accident at a construction site in which six people were killed.
Faced with the ever-growing passenger rush on metro trains, Delhi Metro is planning to launch six coach trains on all its routes from May this year which is expected to ease pressure on over-crowded lines.
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued a notice to the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation on a petition that stated that the DMRC was grossly negligent in connection with the Zamrudpur mishap. The petition called for the setting up of an independent committee to investigate the Zamrudpur incident, in which six persons were killed. On July 24, the high court had issued a notice to Gammon India, a contractor of Delhi Metro Rail project, on a petition filed by family of victims.
Putting the blame on 'deficiency in design and material' for the July 12 mishap which claimed six lives, Delhi Metro on Tuesday claimed that a design consultant firm which inspected the site 'misled' them and the contractor about the condition of the pier which collapsed. The DMRC is also serving a show-cause notice to contractor Gammon India, which was carrying out the work at Zamrudpur accident site, to explain why it should not be blacklisted for two years.
The development took place irrespective of the recent escalation in tension and war of words between India and Pakistan. The matter has been referred to the external affairs ministry which is learnt to be favourably disposed towards it. Once it gets South Block's go-ahead, DMRC will send a team of its officials to Karachi to prepare a detailed project report. DMRC Managing Director Elattuvalapil Sreedharan said this will include all aspects of the project.
A ride on a Delhi Metro train is likely to become more comfortable with DMRC planning to roll out 83 broad gauge trains, which will be more faster than the present ones, by 2011 at a cost of Rs 2,984 crore (Rs 29.84 billion).
The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation is set to install automatic ticket vending machines at select metro stations in the national capital. Commuters will be able to get their metro tokens from the vending machines installed at Barakambha Road, Central Secretariat and Vishwa Vidayalaya metro stations from the end of April. The DMRC has procured 16 such machines to be installed at various metro stations in the capital.
The Comptroller and Auditor General has indicted the way the DMRC is run and points to the novel 50:50 management structure that neither of the governments is in charge, so the company is pretty much run by the management, namely Sreedharan.
About 45 per cent work has been completed on the 33.494 km long Janakpuri-Kalindi Kunj Metro corridor by September
Delhi Metro will add 131 more trains, some of them with six coaches, to its fleet to cater to the additional traffic caused due to the increasing number of passengers.
The Delhi Metro may end up in a loss of Rs 700 crore (Rs 7 billion) in the next fiscal due to a high depreciation cost although it expects to generate a revenue of Rs 1,231 crore (Rs 12.31 billion).The Metro expects to cough up Rs 1,026 crore (Rs 10.26 billion) through operations during 2010-11 financial year, besides another Rs 205 crore (Rs 2.05 billion) through property development.
Inside the coach, he interacted with some of the commuters and posed with them for pictures.
The capital infusion is expected to bolster its presence in the country by funding its key businesses to take on Indian rival Ola.
The state asked the PMO to accommodate three more dignitaries, including DMRC Principal Advisor E Sreedharan.
After being closed for over five months due to the COVID-19 pandemic, metro services will be resumed in three stages from September 7-12, but stations located in containment zones will remain closed.
