The man, identified as Amit Soni, a native of Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh, laid down on the platform, with his head and shoulders sticking out towards the track, when he saw the train approaching, they said.
Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation Limited (KMRCL) on Saturday started distributing compensation cheques to the residents of central Kolkata's Bowbazar area who had to vacate their homes after the buildings suffered damages due to the tunnelling work for the under-construction 16.60-km East-West Metro Railway project -- a part of which constitutes India's first under-river train line.
Authorities of Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation Limited (KMRCL) on Saturday started the distribution of cheques to compensate the affected families whose houses have been damaged by tunneling work at Bowbazar area for its east west corridor.
The man, identified as Sanchit Kumar, jumped before a train at Sector 61 metro station around 11.30 am, a police official said.
"We are inquiring into the Defence Ministry's complaint that the CSI had illegally sold a portion of its land, leased to it over a century ago, for the metro project and collected Rs 60 crore compensation from its operator (BMRCL)," Bengaluru Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central) Chetan Singh Rathore told IANS.
The Tree Authority of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Thursday gave its nod to cut over 2,700 trees for a Metro car shed in the leafy Aarey Colony area.
According to rules notified by the Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry on August 27, only one bag weighing up to 25 kg is allowed and baggage in the form of bundles will not not permitted on metro trains.
The work on India's first metro rail line under the Hooghly river is almost complete and the service is expected to start soon announced Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday. Along with the announcement, Piyush Goyal also gave us a glimpse of India's first underwater metro.
If all goes well with PM Modi's dream project of DIGI Yatra, passengers travelling by air will take only a couple of minutes to board a flight across India. The airports would boast of hi-tech body scanners, facial recognition technology and cutting edge identity management system to simplify passenger processes at various checkpoints in less than a minute.
The Supreme Court on Friday asked Delhi Development Authority (DDA) to clarify its stand on Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA) proposal for increasing its financial contribution in three priority corridors of the Delhi Metro project.
In order to address the developmental challenges of the rapidly growing Srinagar and Jammu cities, the state government on Thursday announced setting up of two metropolitan region development authorities. Besides infrastructure, through consultative exercise with police, municipal corporations and the deputy commissioners, these authorities will form a comprehensive mobility management plan, sources said.
The driverless Sydney Metro trains are fully automated and consist of various modern features including LED lighting, emergency intercoms, CCTV cameras, real-time travel information, double-doors and more.
Normal services on Delhi Metro's Yellow has been restored. Earlier, services were hit on Yellow Line due to a technical snag, causing passengers a lot of trouble during peak traffic hour.
According to Metro rail officials, the metal detector at the entrance of the station made an unusual sound on Tuesday as soon as the man sporting a long beard, skull cap, scarf, kurta pyjama and a jacket tried to pass through.
The fully-elevated Noida City Centre-Noida Electronic City section consists of six stations -- Sector 34, Sector 52, Sector 61, Sector 59, Sector 62 and Noida Electronic City.
The Aqua Line service is available from 6 am to 10 pm on weekdays and 8 am to 10 pm on weekends.
In the first phase, 11 trains will run through 21 stations between Noida Sector 51 and Depot Metro station.
According to the ministry, the parameters intend to achieve uniformity among technical specification of electrical items used by different metro rail systems for having standardised procurement and indigenisation.
The Noida Metro Rail Corporation (NMRC) will have QR-coded paper tickets for single journeys, unlike the tokens of the Delhi Metro, and also have an option of checking in and out using a mobile app, officials said.
Hundreds of passengers struggled to get out of the HUDA City Centre Metro Station here on Monday morning when all but one of its Automatic Fare Collection (AFC) gates stopped working
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