Kolkata, July 10 (IANS) Metro Railway on Friday completed tunnelling on a stretch of the underground section of its Purple Line between Kidderpore and Victoria after the Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM), Durga, achieved a breakthrough at the proposed Victoria Metro station.It took exactly one year to complete the tunnelling work between Kidderpore and Victoria. The work commenced at Kidderpore on July 10, 2025. The TBM will now proceed beneath the Kolkata Maidan towards Park Street. The Blue Line alr…
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New Delhi, June 20 (IANS) Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL) on Saturday announced that it has secured a major infrastructure contract worth Rs 2,977 crore from state-owned mining company NMDC for the development of a buffer stockyard and blending facility at Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh.According to an exchange filing, the project involves the establishment of buffer stockpiles and a blending yard with a material handling capacity of 10 million tonnes per annum (MTPA). The facility is expected …
Kolkata, June 9 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari has constituted a special task force, inducting representatives from various state government departments and the Indian Railways to expedite pending railway projects in the state.Insiders from the state secretariat of Nabanna said that, headed by the West Bengal Chief Secretary, Manoj Kumar Agarwal, the task force includes senior bureaucrats from various government departments like Home, Transport, Land and Revenue.On the other …
Kolkata, Feb 18 (IANS) The Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port, Kolkata (SMPK), has launched a major renovation of the historic Bascule Bridge at the Kolkata Dock System (KDS) to ensure safer, faster, and more efficient cargo movement. The renovation will also ensure uninterrupted traffic movement between the Garden Reach-Metiabruz area and the rest of the city.The vital infrastructure project, valued at Rs 117.54 crore, will modernise the 1966-built engineering marvel, originally constructed by the Aus…
Kolkata, Jan 22 (IANS) A day after Kolkata Mayor Firhad Hakim instructed all police stations and traffic outposts in the city to be proactive in controlling air pollution, after the Calcutta High Court took suo motu cognisance of the issue, environmentalists on Thursday said that the measures are not enough. The environmentalists said that it is too little and too late as the city has been grappling with high air pollution levels for a very long time, and several measures have not been implement…
New Delhi, Dec 29 (IANS) State-owned Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL) on Monday said it has emerged as the lowest bidder for a project awarded by East Coast Railway.The project involves setting up a wagon periodical overhaul workshop at Kantabanji with a capacity to handle 200 wagons.East Coast Railway is the awarding authority for the contract. RVNL said the total cost of the project, excluding goods and services tax, is Rs 201.23 crore.The company was the sole bidder for the project, and the wo…
Mumbai, Dec 29 (IANS) India’s railway stocks are showing signs of recovery after a long period of weakness, with the sector witnessing a sharp rally over the past five trading sessions. The recent surge has added more than Rs 66,500 crore to the market value of railway-linked companies, as investors reposition ahead of the Union Budget and respond to improving revenue signals.Railway stocks had remained under pressure for most of 2025 after the sector peaked in July 2024.Since then, many stock…