Kolkata’s River is the target of a cleanup effort, in part because it may soon supply the city’s drinking water. Photo credit: Avishek Mitra This is your first of three free stories this month. Become ...

Interestingly, it is also the biggest underwater river tunnel in South Asia. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday expressed pleasure over the metro trial run under the Hooghly river in the Kolkata ...

Kolkata Metro created history on Wednesday when its rake ran through a tunnel under a river for the first time in the country, a senior official said here. The Metro rake which had only officials and ...

The Kolkata metro created history as for the first time in India after a rake ran in a tunnel under the river on Wednesday, an official said. Trial of regular trains from Howrah Maidan to Esplanade in ...

A 9.6km Metro ride, to and from Esplanade and Howrah Maidan, on Thursday took over an hour. It included a 520m-long ride, 26m below the Hooghly, which took around 10 minutes to cover. But once opened ...

Commuters will be able to avail of Metro under the river Hooghly this December, Metro Railway general manager P Uday Kumar Reddy said on Monday. The Sealdah-Esplanade link that will complete the ...

India's first under-river metro tunnel built in Kolkata will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 6 March, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has informed. While speaking in an exclusive ...

Two Metro trains will chug along the twin tunnels below the Hooghly this Sunday, April 9, marking India’s much-awaited maiden under-river journey. It will be another honour for Kolkata, which was the ...