Bengaluru Metro

Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Wednesday asked officials to complete the second phase of Bengaluru Metro work by 2024, a year before the deadline.

With a growing workforce returning to offices and schools resuming offline classes, metro rails in Bengaluru will now operate longer hours, starting tomorrow.

The Karnataka government on Tuesday urged IT companies to extend the work from home option for employees to December 2022 keeping in view of traffic congestion on Outer Ring Road due to the Bengaluru metro construction work.

From increased traffic in Bengaluru to opening up of malls and buses and Namma Metro operating to full capacity, Karnataka inched back closer to normalcy as Covid infections reduced considerably. But some, including authorities, remain wary.

The services of Bengaluru's Namma Metro, which resumed on June 21, will be increased to cover non-peak hours too from July 1. The trains will run every five minutes in peak hours and every 15 minutes in off-peak hours on weekdays.

With the easing of some lockdown restrictions in 16 districts of Karnataka with a positivity rate of less than 5 per cent - more public transport is available now.

Full page ads put out by the Karnataka government to thank Prime Minister Narendra Modi for budget clearance for Bengaluru Metro work havecome underharsh criticism from the opposition in the state.

Mahindra Electric's "Treo Zor", a three-wheeler vehicle powered by a lithium-ion battery, has been deployed in major metro cities like Bengaluru, New Delhi and Hyderabad

For an urban transport system meant to de-clog one of India's most liveable cities, Namma Metro is still only beginning to make a difference to Bengaluru which continued to add over 1,500 vehicles to its clogged roads every single day till pandemic struck. Even the addition of 6 km today on the north-south Green Line still only means a cumulative 4...

A new stretch of Bengaluru's Namma Metro train service was inaugurated on Thursday, on the occasion of Makara Sankranti, and will be thrown open to the public from today.

The Namma Metro train services from Yelachenahalli to Silk Institute stretch on Kanakapura Road will commence from January 14, Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa said on Wednesday.

The crime branch of Mumbai police has arrested a 46-year-old woman, a resident of Bengaluru, for allegedly stealing valuables of customers visiting malls and big showrooms in various metro cities, an official said on Wednesday.

Bengaluru Transit Infra Projects: It is estimated that around 127 kilometres of metro and 270 km of road projects are under various stages of construction in Bengaluru

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $500 million loan to construct new metro rail lines in Bengaluru, Karnataka, and another $300 million to strengthen primary health care in urban areas across the country.

The Namma Metro project in Bengaluru received a financial boost from the city's Biocon Foundation, headed by Dr Kiran Mazumdar Shaw.

Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Wednesday asked officials to complete the second phase of Bengaluru Metro work by 2024, a year before the deadline.

With a growing workforce returning to offices and schools resuming offline classes, metro rails in Bengaluru will now operate longer hours, starting tomorrow.

The Karnataka government on Tuesday urged IT companies to extend the work from home option for employees to December 2022 keeping in view of traffic congestion on Outer Ring Road due to the Bengaluru metro construction work.

From increased traffic in Bengaluru to opening up of malls and buses and Namma Metro operating to full capacity, Karnataka inched back closer to normalcy as Covid infections reduced considerably. But some, including authorities, remain wary.

The services of Bengaluru's Namma Metro, which resumed on June 21, will be increased to cover non-peak hours too from July 1. The trains will run every five minutes in peak hours and every 15 minutes in off-peak hours on weekdays.

With the easing of some lockdown restrictions in 16 districts of Karnataka with a positivity rate of less than 5 per cent - more public transport is available now.

Full page ads put out by the Karnataka government to thank Prime Minister Narendra Modi for budget clearance for Bengaluru Metro work havecome underharsh criticism from the opposition in the state.

Mahindra Electric's "Treo Zor", a three-wheeler vehicle powered by a lithium-ion battery, has been deployed in major metro cities like Bengaluru, New Delhi and Hyderabad

For an urban transport system meant to de-clog one of India's most liveable cities, Namma Metro is still only beginning to make a difference to Bengaluru which continued to add over 1,500 vehicles to its clogged roads every single day till pandemic struck. Even the addition of 6 km today on the north-south Green Line still only means a cumulative 4...

A new stretch of Bengaluru's Namma Metro train service was inaugurated on Thursday, on the occasion of Makara Sankranti, and will be thrown open to the public from today.

The Namma Metro train services from Yelachenahalli to Silk Institute stretch on Kanakapura Road will commence from January 14, Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa said on Wednesday.

The crime branch of Mumbai police has arrested a 46-year-old woman, a resident of Bengaluru, for allegedly stealing valuables of customers visiting malls and big showrooms in various metro cities, an official said on Wednesday.

Bengaluru Transit Infra Projects: It is estimated that around 127 kilometres of metro and 270 km of road projects are under various stages of construction in Bengaluru

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $500 million loan to construct new metro rail lines in Bengaluru, Karnataka, and another $300 million to strengthen primary health care in urban areas across the country.

The Namma Metro project in Bengaluru received a financial boost from the city's Biocon Foundation, headed by Dr Kiran Mazumdar Shaw.