Infrastructure News
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Delhi Metro Airport Express Line: Use your smartphone as ticket instead of tokens and smart cards!
Devanjana Nag | September 15, 2018 1:41 PMNow, commuters will not have to stand in long queues to buy tokens or use their smart cards at Delhi Metro stations for Airport Express Line. From this Sunday onwards, commuters can use QR code-based facility on their smartphones.
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Sikkim gets its first airport at Pakyong! PM Narendra Modi to inaugurate on September 23
PTI | September 15, 2018 1:08 PMPrime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Sikkim on September 23 to inaugurate the state’s first airport at Pakyong, a senior official has said.
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Salem-Chennai corridor project still in fluid stage: Centre tells Madras HC
PTI | September 15, 2018 1:54 AMThe Centre on Friday submitted in the Madras High Court that there was nothing to prove that it had violated the law on land acquisition for the proposed Salem-Chennai corridor project.
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Jerks during engine attachment with decoupled Indian Railways train coaches leave 20 injured
PTI | September 15, 2018 1:47 AMAt least 20 passengers of a train suffered injuries Friday when their decoupled coaches received jerks during attachment with the engine in Rajasthan’s Bikaner railway division, a railway official said.
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Indian Railways connectivity in North-East: Meghalaya CM holds meeting with railway officials
PTI | September 15, 2018 1:41 AMMeghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma Friday held a meeting with railway officials to discuss about the two railway projects in the state which have been sanctioned by the Centre.
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Versova-Bandra Sea Link project: RInfra consortium submits Rs 735 crore worth bank guarantees for project in Mumbai
PTI | September 15, 2018 1:36 AMReliance Infrastructure (RInfra)Friday said its consortium has submitted bank guarantees worth Rs 735 crore to Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) for Versova-Bandra Sea Link project.
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Lucknow, Ahmedabad, Kolkata among 6 AAI-run airports to bag international awards
PTI | September 15, 2018 12:45 AMSix aerodromes of the Airports Authority of India have bagged seven international awards.
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DIAL serves notices to entities on 176 obstacles around Delhi airport
PTI | September 14, 2018 6:56 PMDelhi airport operator DIAL has served notices to address issues related to 176 obstacles including buildings, trees and light poles, around the aerodrome that could pose threat to flights landing and taking off from there.
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Delhi to follow South Korea’s footsteps? Arvind Kejriwal may revive streams, public transport like Seoul
Devanjana Nag | September 14, 2018 4:35 PMDelhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who is in South Korea on his first official bilateral trip recently announced that the government of Delhi is looking forward to close cooperation with Seoul in developing such kind of streams in the national capital.
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Your Ola, Uber rides to Delhi will continue to be cheaper! No entry toll to be charged till September-end
Devanjana Nag | September 14, 2018 2:31 PMThe South Delhi Municipal Corporation, which is the nodal agency for managing the toll tax collection on behalf of the three corporations in Delhi, has decided to extend the suspension period of toll tax collection for commercial vehicles entering the national capital from September 14, 2018, to September 30, 2018.
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Soon, Delhi Metro to inaugurate new extended Violet Line between Mujesar and Ballabgarh
Devanjana Nag | September 14, 2018 1:55 PMRecently, Chief Minister of Haryana, Manohar Lal Khattar announced that the Delhi Metro line from Faridabad’s Mujesar (YMCA Chowk) to Ballabhgarh district of Haryana is almost ready and the line will be inaugurated soon.
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India’s first bullet train project completes a year: Challenges and way ahead
September 14, 2018 1:19 PMThe deadline for completion of land acquisition has been set as December 2018. Though LIDAR (aerial survey) was completed early last year and physical survey started in December 2017, physical handover of land has not advanced much with only 3 months left for the targeted deadline.
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Mumbai Metro: Maharashtra cabinet clears two new rail line projects; big boost for connectivity
Devanjana Nag | September 14, 2018 12:34 PMThe Dahisar–Mira-Bhayander corridor, which is also Metro 9 of the city is 10.5-km long while the Andheri East- International Airport corridor, Metro 7A, is 3.2-km long, out of which 2.11 km, as well as the station, will be underground.
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Relief for passengers! Train ticket prices to go down as Indian Railways looks to dilute flexi-fare scheme
Smriti Jain | September 14, 2018 9:21 AMIndian Railways is in the final stages of diluting its flexi-fare scheme which was introduced in September 2016 – a move that will come as a big relief for passengers as train ticket prices go down. The Railway Board has sent the final recommendations on flexi-fare scheme to Piyush Goyal.
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How Delhi’s IGI airport plans to get rid of 1.7 lakh sq metres of carpet flooring
Devanjana Nag | September 13, 2018 4:20 PMOnce the entire process of replacing the carpet is complete, the overall passenger experience would be enhanced, especially while dragging luggage in between the travellators. The work for this is likely to start before the end of October.
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Asia’s first narrow-gauge rail line between Dhaboi-Miyagam in Gujarat to be converted to broad gauge
Devanjana Nag | September 13, 2018 1:35 PMWhile refusing to preserve the line as heritage, the Western Railway, which has jurisdiction over this line, wrote to the Railway Board stating that the project for converting this narrow gauge line into broad gauge line and linking it to the main line was sanctioned in the year 2011-12, and the work for that has already started.
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New IRCTC next-generation e-ticketing website: 5 cool facts every Indian Railways passenger should know
Devanjana Nag | September 13, 2018 1:05 PMThe website which is used to book lakhs of train tickets daily, has been provided with many new features. Not only has booking a train ticket become easier but also passengers can enjoy many new additional features such as checking the availability of train tickets, live streaming of IRCTC base kitchens etc.
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Bullet train service to connect Kolkata in India to Kunming in China? Why China is pushing for the project
Devanjana Nag | September 13, 2018 12:30 PMRecently, Chinese Consul-General Ma Zhanwu stated that his country, China, was mooting a bullet train service between Kunming and Kolkata, traversing through neighbouring countries Myanmar and Bangladesh.
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Electrification of all railway lines cleared
FE Bureau | September 13, 2018 7:50 AMWhile around 46% of the railways’ 66,000-route km are already electrified and work on another 20,000 km is ongoing, the carrier will now also electrify the rest of the 13,675 km at a cost of Rs 12,314 crore.
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Uttar Pradesh becomes 1st state to make RFID tag must for e-way bill
Sumit Jha | September 13, 2018 6:51 AMUttar Pradesh has made it mandatory for vehicles operating in the state to use the radio frequency identification device (RFID) tag along with e-way bill from November 1.
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Ganesh Chaturthi: Indian Railways to run several Ganpati special trains; check list here
Devanjana Nag | September 12, 2018 2:17 PMAs the nation is all set to celebrate the auspicious occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal-led Indian Railways has decided to run several special trains services in a bid to clear the extra rush of passengers during the Ganpati festival.
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Soon, Indian Railways to have world’s largest electrified network! Modi government gives this big boost
Devanjana Nag | September 12, 2018 7:54 PMIndian Railways to have the world’s largest electrified rail network! In a big boost for enhancing and reforming Indian Railways operations, Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Cabinet has today given the nod to electrify the remaining 13,675 kms of railway tracks.
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Western Peripheral Expressway: Much-delayed, 12.5 years old project nears completion! Highway to open in October
Devanjana Nag | September 12, 2018 11:54 AMTo complete the remaining work of the highway stretch from Sonipat to Manesar, the government of Haryana awarded the work to Essel Infrastructure in August 2016. The official deadline for this is February 2019.
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Indian Railways UTS mobile app: Southern Railway’s Salem division collects maximum revenue of over Rs 27 lakh
Devanjana Nag | September 12, 2018 9:34 AMSince April 2018, the Salem division of Southern Railway zone has collected an amount of Rs 27,69,495, that is over Rs 27 lakh through the UTS mobile app, which is the unreserved ticketing system on mobile.
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Soon, these Indian Railways’ stations in Mumbai will get clean AC toilets
Devanjana Nag | September 12, 2018 9:27 AMChhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) and Thane are all set to get air-conditioned toilets soon. Other than these two stations, the Govandi railway station will also get a luxury toilet.
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Aerospace industry growth in India over two times of GDP, says MD of Aequs Aerospace
Huma Siddiqui | September 12, 2018 5:15 AMWith more demand and competition, India can soon transform into an aerospace manufacturing hub.
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How Indian Railways has improved punctuality of its trains: Piyush Goyal explains
PTI | September 11, 2018 11:26 PM“Honest” reporting of delays and efforts by railway employees in monitoring trains and routes have improved punctuality of the national transporter by 20 per cent this year, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal said Tuesday.
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