The Principal Executive Director of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, Anuj Dayal, on Thursday grieved the death of a man in the Gokulpuri metro station wall collapse incident and announced the suspension of two managers and one junior engineer after the incident.
A 51-year-old man who was grievously injured after a wall of a metro collapsed earlier in the day in the national capital has succumbed to his injuries, a top police official said.
President Droupadi Murmu on Wednesday flagged off shuttle bus service between Central Secretariat Metro Station (Gate 4) and Amrit Udyan (Gate 35) for visitors coming to Amrit Udyan, located on Rashtrapati Bhavan premises.
According to DMRC, the train services will be available at a headway of 30 minutes till 6 am and thereafter, a regular timetable will be followed for the rest of the day.
As the country is gearing up for the 75th Republic Day, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation said on Wednesday that the metro services will start at 4 am on all its lines to facilitate the public to reach Kartavya Path to witness the ceremony on January 26.
The security checks for passengers will be further intensified by the Central Industrial Security Force across the Metro stations beginning Friday until January 27 given the enhanced security arrangements ahead of Republic Day on January 26th, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation said in a st
India is witnessing a steep rise in its metro ridership as daily ridership across metro systems in the country has already crossed the 10 million mark, and is expected to exceed 12.5 million in a year or two, according to Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.
Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel on Tuesday saved the life of a young woman while she was attempting suicide by jumping off the elevated metro track at Delhi's Shadipur metro station.
According to Delhi Police, the girl went to Shadipur metro station with her mother on Monday evening. She had a brief verbal spat with her mother at the metro station, following which she got down on the metro track and reached the bridge from where she tried to jump down, police said.