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Dubai Metro Music Festival is back at these metro stations

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Abu Dhabi: The Dubai Metro Music Festival will return for a third edition this year from March 6 to March 12. It will feature a group of 20 local, regional and international musicians, performing live at five Dubai metro stations.
It is organized by Brand Dubai, the creative arm of the Government of Dubai Media Office (GDMO), in association with the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA).
Here are you can watch the live musical performances
Photo: Dubai Media Office
This year’s festival brings together artists from Egypt, India, France, Thailand, Azerbaijan, Pakistan, Nigeria, Cuba, the United Kingdom, Lebanon, Canada, the Netherlands, Jordan and Australia.
The show also includes special performances by Iman Al-Raisi, an Emirati electric guitarist, and self-taught Saudi musician Shadi Al-Harbi, who will play the oud.
The Dubai Metro Music Festival will introduce audiences to new instruments like the flute beatbox, folk beatboxing which will take place from 4 pm to 10 pm across selected metro stations.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 4, 2023
Two Mumbai Metro stations are now fully operated by women

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Mumbai: In a major initiative five days before the International Womens Day (March 8), the Mumbai Metro announced on Friday that two of its stations are now fully operated by an all-female staff at all levels to empower women employees.
The stations are Akurli on Line 2A and Eksar on Line 7, which became fully operational in January this year, and are part of the historic initiative of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority and the Maha Mumbai Metro Operation Corporation Ltd.
The two stations are now handled by a 76-member team of all-female staff, ranging from the station manager to the security personnel deployed there.
They are working in three shifts and performing all duties, including that of station controller, excess fare officer, ticket sales officer, shift supervisor, customer care officer, security, housekeeping etc., ensuring efficient, safe and clean functioning of the two stations.
The Mumbai Metro said that it is keen on providing a safe working environment for women by having separate women’s changing rooms on the entire network, designated women coaches, washrooms and a toll-free helpline number.
Besides the operations staff, the Mumbai Metro has a total of 958 women working in HR, hinance, maintenance, administration, including the outsourced staff.
These initiatives are aimed at recognising the contributions of women in the transportation industry, promoting gender diversity and inclusivity, highlighting their capabilities and inspiring more females to pursue careers with equality.
An official said that this would be a permanent feature on the Eksar and Akurli stations, and it is not limited to a tokenism marking the upcoming Woemn’s Day celebrations.

They also said that more similar women-friendly initiatives are likely to be rolled out in the future, which would also make lakhs of women commuters feel more at ease while travelling in Mumbai Metro trains at all hours.
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March 3, 2023
Traffic on the Sokolnicheskaya metro line in Moscow was restored

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February 28, 2023
Hyderabad: L&T denies metro related concerns; issues clarification

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Hyderabad: Larsen and Turbo (L&T) spokesperson for the Hyderabad metro rail on Tuesday denied a report published in a vernacular newspaper that the metro was “making sound and peeling off”.
“As per L&T Hyderabad Metro Rail’s SOP, we do regular preventive maintenance work for all the civil structures including viaduct parapets across the metro rail network. During these preventive measures, wherever any superficial hairline cracks are noticed, which is a common phenomenon for areas subjected to continuous vibrations, we rectify them immediately by applying an epoxy coating for protection from weather and as a proactive measure towards the safety of the public,” said the statement issued by L&T.
L&T further said that the contextualized photographs shown in the article are incorrect and misleading in nature, as they are in fact those of post rectification work process for hairline cracks, and not any cement peeling off as claimed in the story.
The statement further read, “Regarding noises, Hyderabad Metro Rail is the only metro in the country, to have such a unique alignment with many sharp curves and steep gradients due to the topography of Hyderabad city. Under these circumstances, rail and wheel metal interaction creates more vibrations and screeching sounds, compared to straight-line metros. To address this issue, regular monitoring of the structure is done as part of the SOP, which also includes continuous/frequent track lubrication to reduce both vibration and noise levels.”
“We also monitor the noise levels regularly and the values are kept well within the permissible limits,” L&T added.
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February 14, 2023
Ex-DRDO employee jumps in front of Delhi metro train, dies

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New Delhi: A 34-year-old former DRDO employee, who was said to be mentally ill, allegedly died by suicide by jumping in front of a moving Delhi Metro train at Mayur Vihar-1 station on Sunday.
The deceased was M.Tech from IIT Kanpur and had worked for the DRDO for four years.
A senior police official said that they got a PCR call from station controller Mayur Vihar-1 metro station who stated that a person jumped in front of the train at platform number 1.
“A police team was sent to the spot where it met the station controller who said that the person who jumped in front of the metro train had already been shifted to Lal Bahadur Shastri Hospital. The man was declared brought dead by the doctors,” the official said.
The deceased was identified as Ajay Laxman Pakhale.
“After DRDO, he joined the job of a senior manager in GAIL but resigned in November 2022. It is further revealed that the deceased was mentally ill and was under treatment at Apollo Hospital. He was unmarried and no suicide note was found,” said the official.
According to the police, the CCTV footage was analyzed and it was found that the deceased jumped before the metro train at about 1:51 p.m. The body was sent to a nearby government for postmortem.

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February 12, 2023
Rs 2,500 crore for Metro rail expansion in Hyderabad

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Hyderabad: The Telangana government on Monday allocated Rs 2,500 crore for the Metro Rail project in Hyderabad including for extending metro services to the old city and for metro connectivity to the airport.
In the Budget for 2023-24 presented in the State Assembly, Rs 1,500 crore has been allocated for Hyderabad Metro Rail (HMR).
The government also allocated Rs 500 crore each for extending Metro Rail services to the old city and metro connectivity to Rajiv Gandhi International Airport at Shamshabad.
State Finance minister T. Harish Rao, in his budget speech, only elaborated on the allocation made for metro connectivity to the airport.
He noted that the number of air travelers using the international airport has been increasing day by day. The expansion facilities at the airport at a cost of Rs 7,500 crore have been taken up to meet the requirements even if the air traffic goes up to 4 crore passengers per year. He said the expanded facilities will be completed by June.
The minister said with the objective of facilitating passengers to reach the airport in the shortest possible time from different areas, it has been envisaged to extend metro rail services to the airport. This metro line will commence from Raidurg and terminate at Shamshabad Airport covering a distance of 31 km.
Recently, Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao laid the foundation for metro connectivity to the airport. This project will be taken up at a cost of Rs 6,250 crore with the own resources of the State government and will be completed within the next three years, he said.
Another Rs 500 crore has been allocated for extending Hyderabad Metro Rail services to the old city. An equal amount was allocated in the Budget for the previous year but the work was not taken up.

L&T Metro Rail Hyderabad (L&TMRH) has completed the first phase of the Metro Rail project across three corridors to a total length of 69.2 km. While L. B. Nagar to Miyapur and Nagole to Raidurg corridors have been completed, Jubilee Bus Station (JBS) to Falaknuma is yet to be completed. On the third corridor, connectivity has been provided from JBS to Mahatma Gandhi Bus Station (MGBS) also called Imlibun.
The developer has not taken up expansion in the old city due to lack of permission. Religious and heritage structures along the proposed route in the old city and financial losses suffered by the developer and operator due to Covid-19 pandemic are cited as the reasons for the delay in construction of Metro works on the 5.5 km stretch.
The state government has still not made clear if it will fund the work in the old city on its own. The concessionaire is unlikely to fund the works as the project cost has already escalated substantially for property acquisition, shift of utilities like electricity lines, water pipelines and the construction of elevated viaducts as well as stations.
In 2021, AL&TMRHL sought the state government’s help to overcome the losses it incurred due to the pandemic.
The 73-km elevated metro is the biggest metro project in the world in public private partnership (PPP) model built at a total cost of Rs 20,000 crore.
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February 6, 2023
HC gives Bengaluru Metro two weeks to respond on pillar collapse accident

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Bengaluru: The High Court of Karnataka on Tuesday ordered issuing of notices to Bengaluru Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) and others in a public interest litigation taken on its own over the death of two persons due to the collapse of an under-construction metro pillar here.
The BMRCL was given two weeks’ time to respond to the court.
The state government, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), the BMRCL chief engineer and Nagarjuna Construction Company Limited are the other respondents in the case.
The High Court had initiated the suo-moto (on its own) PIL on January 13 following the death of software engineer Tejaswini and her two-year-old son when the pillar pier collapsed on the two-wheeler they were travelling in, near Hennur main road in the city on January 10.
The division bench of Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice S Vishwajith Shetty heard the petition that the court had itself directed the Registrar General to initiate.
While initiating the PIL earlier this month, the High Court had said it was taking cognisance of news reports about the incident. “These news items prompted us to take cognisance of the incident referred to wherein there is an unfortunate death of a lady and toddler son at the condition of roads, the issue raises concern and question for the public at large.”
Meanwhile, the BMRCL had suspended three engineers and issued notices to its contractor Nagarjuna Construction Company. The police had booked nine persons including officials of BMRCL.

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January 31, 2023
3 injured in Brussels metro knife attack

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Brussels: Three people were injured in a knife attack on Monday evening in the Brussels-Schuman station, the federal police said.
Of the injured, one was hurt seriously, the other two slightly. The suspect was arrested by the police, a spokeswoman confirmed on Monday.
The person arrested “was already known for a psychiatric history”, according to Belgian online newspaper 7sur7.
Philippe Close, Mayor of the city of Brussels, praised “the rapid arrest of the perpetrator,” Xinhua news agency reported.
The Brussels fire brigade confirmed that a “SMUR (Mobile Emergency and Resuscitation Service) and ambulances are on the spot”.
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January 31, 2023
Hyderabad: Airport Metro works under ‘fine-tune’

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Hyderabad: In order to fine-tune the Airport Metro alignment and to examine different options for ideal station locations, Hyderabad Airport Metro Limited (HAML) MD NVS Reddy inspected a 10 km stretch between Narsingi underpass (My Home Avatar junction) to Rajendranagar hillock on Sunday.
Walking the entire length of about 10 km along with his senior engineers, he examined every aspect of the alignment and gave directions, a press note said.
He stated that the Airport Metro stations should be situated closer to the Outer Ring Road (ORR) road underpasses in order to give passengers arriving from various roads and communities where extensive development is occurring easy access.
In order to facilitate the construction of a few additional stations to serve the high-rise commercial and residential buildings under construction in the area of the corridor, Reddy also requested that the engineers design the Metro viaduct without curves and gradients at a few designated locations.
In order to ensure the success of Airport Metro from the very beginning of operations, he instructed officials that skywalks and other pedestrian amenities must be considered a crucial component of station planning.
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January 29, 2023
Hyderabad Metro Rail Limited increases train frequency

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Hyderabad: In order to address the issue of crowded trains, Hyderabad Metro Rail Limited (HMRL) decided to increase the frequency of the train to less than three minutes during peak hours.
Responding to the tweet shared by a Twitterati, Managing Director of HMRL NVS Reddy wrote, ‘We have asked L&T top management to procure more trains but it’s a time taking exercise. As an interim relief, train frequency is being increased to less than 3 minutes during peak hours & short loop services are introduced.’
After seeing the video of the crowded Ameerpet Metro Station, he wrote, ‘platform length is also being increased at Ameerpet’.
Around 4.5 lakh Hyderabad passengers depend on Metro Rail
Daily around 4.5 lahks Hyderabad passengers travel using Metro Rail. However, it is just half the capacity.
Though the occupancy does not reach the maximum level, some routes at specific times witness heavy rush.
Some of the netizens are of the opinion that the problem of crowded trains and heavy rush at the stations can be solved by increasing the number of bogies from the current three to six.
Old city still waits for Metro Rail
Metro Rail began its operation in Hyderabad on November 29, 2017, and since then HMRL is continuously working to improve the commuters’ experience by taking new initiatives.
Despite recent technical glitches that affected the Metro service, it is considered one of the most preferred mode of transportation in Hyderabad.

However, the metro rail has not been made available in the Old city so far.
In spite of many representations made by political leaders including AIMIM MLA Akbarduddin Owaisi, metro rail is not yet extended to the Old City.
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January 26, 2023