East-West Metro on Wednesday flew in a British engineer who has worked at over 100 underground railway stations to supervise troubleshooting in Bowbazar, where water seepage into a Metro tunnel has ca...

East-West Metro has stopped construction on the affected stretch and work will resume only with the court’s permission, the Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation (KMRC) told Calcutta High Court on Wednesda...

Saturday, 5.45pm: Workers and engineers inside East-West Metro’s Howrah-bound tunnel see water seeping inSaturday, 11pm: Officials of Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation (KMRC), the implementin...

Metro Railway will start an “independent” trial on the East-West route to make its staff familiar with the new technology. The trials covering 5.7km across six stations between Sector V and Stadiu...

Afcons officials said it would take about a month to complete the retrieval.At the front of the machines are cutters that cut through the soil.Each machine is 100 metres in length but a large portion ...

The East-West Metro will have sound barriers on some stretches in Salt Lake where the tracks run cheek by jowl with residential buildings and hospitals.The stretches where residents have complained to...

East-West Metro will hire around 350 people from an agency to conduct a trial for emergency evacuation.Railway sources said the Metro authorities had contacted an agency in the business of supplying p...

The East-West Metro authorities have requested police to close the two pedestrian pathways around Sealdah station for two years to facilitate the boring of a tunnel from Bowbazar to the station.The tu...

Phoolbagan has become the city’s first underground Metro station with full-length platform screen doors, from the floor to the ceiling.The screen doors at Phoolbagan station are around 2.5 metres hi...

Several families will be evacuated from various lanes of Bowbazar ahead of the resumption of East-West Metro’s tunnel-boring work till Sealdah, Metro officials said on Wednesday.An engineer of Kolka...