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LG wants to replace Metro and other subway train windows with transparent OLED displays
Fp Staff •LG plans to replace the windows on Metro trains with their transparent OLED displays. They will be used for displaying maps, news, weather forecasts, and advertisements, all the while being transparent, thereby retaining its use as an actual window.
Eknath Shinde reverses former CM Uddhav Thackeray's decision, orders metro car shed to be built in Aarey Colony
•In 2020, Uddhav Thackeray said the proposed car shed has been shifted from Aarey to Kanjurmarg
Kolkata: Several houses in Bowbazar area develop cracks amid metro construction; locals evacuated
•Several houses in the same area had collapsed in August 2019 when an aquifer broke during tunnel boring for the East-West Metro corridor, joining twin cities Kolkata and Howrah, and water and silt gushed in, leading to severe ground subsidence
Fuel prices today: Petrol rate hiked by 26 paise, nears Rs 99 per litre mark in Chennai
•Among metro cities, petrol is already above Rs 100 in Mumbai, Hyderabad and Bengaluru. Now, rates are also inching closer to that mark in Chennai
Narendra Modi flags off India’s first ever fully-automated driverless metro train in Delhi; all you need to know
Trendingdesk •Under the new system, the trains will be controlled entirely from the three command centres of the DMRC.
Coronavirus Updates: Ahead of West Bengal Assembly's Monsoon session, eight, including two staff and four cops, test positive
Fp Staff •Coronavirus Updates: A total of 467 persons were tested at a temporary testing centre on Tuesday. The House will be in session only on 9 September as opposed to the two days proposed earlier
Delhi Metro to bar passengers without masks, have longer halting time; contactless frisking likely
•Among other measures, red lines have been drawn at regular intervals next to AFC gates and security checking gates, just before commuters enter near the platform areas
Unlock 4.0 guidelines announced: Metro services to resume from 7 Sep; schools, colleges to remain shut till 30 Sep
Fp Staff •Social, academic, sports, entertainment, cultural, religious, political functions and other congregations will be permitted from 21 September as part of Unlock 4.0, but with a ceiling of 100 persons
Unlock 4.0 phase to begin from 1 September; metro trains may resume but schools likely to stay closed
•Metro services were suspended in late March to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus, which has infected more than 31 lakh people in the country so far
Revisiting Basu Chatterjee's Bombay, a city that valued sustainability and small joys over relentless ambition
Devanshsharma •Basu Chatterjee's Bombay, in films like Piya Ka Ghar and Chhoti Si Baat, was a city that was more than the sum of its parts