Kolkata: Metro Railway is all set to extend revenue services by one-and-a-half hours on the Blue Line and 65 minutes on the Green Line from next Monday.Metro will run from 6 am to 10.30 pm between Dakshineswar and Shahid Khudiram stations or the Blue Line, barring Sundays.Services on the Green Line or the East-West metro…
An East-West Metro train under the river Hooghly Kolkata: If all goes well, the city’s first driverless metro rake may zip with passengers under the Hooghly within a month, sources said. A driver will remain on board the rake to reassure commuters, but its movement will be controlled from Operations Control Centre at the maintenance…
Sector V hawkers free up pavement space Kolkata: Following instructions to clear encroachment from pavements, hawkers and street vendors across the IT hub of Sector V are removing temporary structures and tarpaulin to free up almost two-thirds of the space. Since Saturday, street vendors on several stretches of Sector V have been removing the temporary…
Driverless metro trains use the modern signalling system Kolkata: The city’s Green Line (East-West Metro) will undergo examinations on Sunday to be able to run driverless trains on the automatic train operation (ATO) signalling mode. Green Line services will commence from 4.30 pm on Sunday instead of the usual 9 am for the inspection.The ATO…
Kolkata: A routine medical check-up at RG Kar Medical College blew the lid off a horrific year-long ordeal for a six-year-old girl in Lake Town, triggering a swift cross-jurisdictional police operation that ended with the arrest of her cousin brother on charges of rape on Friday afternoon.The breakthrough came when the minor, suffering from acute…
Kolkata: The city’s fleet of govt buses, which wore red during the Left Front regime and switched to blue-and-white after Trinamool Congress came to office, is now turning saffron with BJP at the helm.The shift in the colour code became evident last week, following the rollout of govt-run AC buses on AC-58 route, which connects…
Kolkata: Around 5 lakh passengers rode Kolkata Metro’s Blue Line (Dakshineswar to New Garia) every day in FY 25-26 against the Green Line’s (Howrah Maidan-Sector V) 1.5 lakh per day. Among the shorter corridors, the Purple Line (Joka-Majerhat) saw about 5,000 commuters daily, the Yellow Line (Noapara-Airport) around 3,000 and the Orange Line (New Garia-Metropoliton)…
Waterlogging at SSKM on Thursday photo by Sayantan Chakraborty Kolkata: Over 100 mm rain in less than one-and-a-half hours on Thursday afternoon inundated thoroughfares across the city uprooting trees and crippling traffic system. Storm water entered major hospitals such as SSKM, RG Kar Medical College, Belle Vue Clinic causing hardships for the patients and the…
Heavy rainfall and waterlogging in Kolkata…….Subhojyoti Kanjilal Kolkata: The city and its adjoining areas witnessed heavy rainfall on Sunday in the latter half of the morning, causing waterlogging in many parts of the city and slowing down traffic at several parts of the city, including stretches of south and central Kolkata, the VIP Road and…
Minister Agnimitra Paul at Alipore zoo Kolkata: Torrential rain for a couple of hours in the morning—this monsoon’s first heavy spell—flooded large areas of Kolkata as well as Salt Lake and New Town on Friday. Consequently, traffic on multiple stretches, especially in central Kolkata, slowed down in the morning peak hours.The intensity of the showers…
