New Delhi [India], September 1 (ANI): A man died after he allegedly jumped in front of a train at Tilak Nagar metro station on Wednesday morning.

New Delhi [India], June 3 (ANI): A woman from the national capital, taking to social media on Thursday claimed that she faced sexual harassment by a fellow passenger at the Jor Bagh metro station in Delhi. She detailed the incident in a long thread of tweets.

New Delhi Apr 21 PTI There was a delay in services on the Blue Line of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation DMRC on Thursday morning officials saidThe transporter took to Twitter to inform commuters about it but it did not disclose the reason for the delayDelay in services between Dwarka Sector 21 and Noida Electronic CityVaishali Normal service on all other lines the DMRC tweetedThe Blue Line connects Vaishali and Noida with Dwarka PTI NIT IJT

New Delhi Mar 30 PTI The Delhi government on Wednesday appointed Vikas Kumar as the managing director of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation DMRC according to an official orderKumar who is Director Operations in the corporation will hold the post for a term of five years said the order issued by Transport Department of the Delhi governmentThe Government of NCT of Delhi is pleased to appoint Vikas Kumar as managing director MD of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Ltd in accordance with terms of Article 130 of the Memorandum and Article of Association of DMRC Ltd for the period of five years with effect from April 1 said the orderThe appointment of Kumar as the new managing director of the DMRC was approved by the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs the order saidKumar an officer of the 1988-batch of the Indian Railway Traffic Service prior to this was appointed as as Director Operations early December 2021 He is an electrical engineering graduate from IIT-Roorkee 1987 and did his MTech from IIT-Delhi in 1989Delhi Transport minister Kailash Gahlot tweeted about his appointment to the top postHeartiest congratulations best wishes to Sh Vikas Kumar on being appointed as the new MD of OfficialDMRC The metro is Delhis lifeline and I hope that DMRC under your capable guidance continues to set new benchmarks in top quality public transport he wrote on Twitter and shared a copy of the order dated March 30 2022Kumar will succeed Mangu Singh whose tenure ends on March 31Singhs tenure as MD of DMRC had begun from January 1 2012 after his predecessor E Sreedharan had handed over charge to him on December 31 2011Delhi Metro under Singhs leadership had endeavoured to put it back on track after being hit severely by the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing lockdowns Singhs tenure as the managing director of the mass rapid transit system had been extended multiple timesThe DMRC networks current span is nearly 392 km with 286 stations including the Noida-Greater Noida Metro Corridor and Rapid Metro GurgaonSingh has contributed greatly in the project implementation of metros in Delhi and Kolkata and has been responsible for bringing revolutionary changes in the execution of large metro engineering projects civil within tight deadlines and budget and is considered the foremost tunneling expert the DMRC had earlier saidA Bijnor native he is a graduate in civil engineering from the University of Roorkee now IIT-RoorkeeThereafter he became part of the Indian Railways Services of Engineers IRSE in 1981 Singh then joined the Indian Railways and has worked in various capacities including as deputy chief engineer Kolkata Metro Railway 1989-1996 PTI VIT KND ANB ANB

New Delhi Mar 24 PTI Final field trials of a first-ever indigenously developed signalling technology was on Thursday virtually inaugurated on the Red Line of the Delhi Metro officials saidIndias first ever Indigenous Automatic Train Supervision System i-ATS has been developed by a joint team of DMRC and Bharat Electronics Limited BEL they saidThe final field trials of Indias first ever i-ATS was virtually inaugurated today on the Red Line by our Managing Director Dr Mangu Singh in the presence of Directors and senior officials at Metro Bhawan DelhiMetro the DMRC tweetedThis development will make DMRC more self-reliant in the field of Metro Train Signalling and will boost the Government of Indias Make in India initiativeDelhiMetro it said in another tweetDelhi Metro on December 24 last year had entered into the 20th year of its operations and marked the occasion by commencing a field trial of the i-ATS technologyATS is a computer-based system which manages train operations This system is indispensable for high density operations such as the metro where services are scheduled every few minutesi-ATS is the indigenously developed technology which will now significantly reduce the dependence of Indian metros on foreign vendors dealing with such technologies the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation had earlier saidWith this achievement India will become one of the few countries in the world to have its own ATS product which can be implemented in other metros as well as railway systems it had saidThe development of the i-ATS system is a major step towards the development of an indigenously built CBTC Communication Based Train Control based signalling technology for Metro railway since the i-ATS is an important sub system of the CBTC Signalling system the DMRC had said PTI KND TDS TDS

New Delhi [India], February 26 (ANI): As the Delhi government lifts all COVID-19 related restrictions from February 28 onwards, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) on Saturday announced that the metro will now run without any restrictions, with 100 per cent capacity.

New Delhi [India], February 23 (ANI): For the greater convenience of passengers and enhanced user experience, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) on Wednesday launched its revamped official website and mobile application.

New Delhi [India], February 16 (ANI): Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) on Wednesday filed a fresh affidavit in Delhi High Court comprising of its balance sheet (FY20-21) and details of all bank accounts and fixed deposits.

New Delhi [India], January 24 (ANI): The services of Delhi Metro will be partially curtailed on Republic Day as part of the security arrangements for the day as per the instructions of the Delhi Police.

New Delhi [India], January 5 (ANI): Delhi Chief Minister Satyendar Jain on Wednesday said that "the third wave of COVID-19 has set" in the national capital informing that the union territory is likely to report 10,000 COVID-19 cases today and is stepping closer to a daily positivity rate of 10 per cent.