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Bengaluru : A major relief for passengers traveling in crowded metro coaches, Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited’s (BMRCL’s) much-awaited first six coach Metro was flagged on Friday evening at 5:30 p.m. Chief minister HD Kumaraswamy flagged off the train from a decorated Byappanahalli metro station in the presence of deputy CM G Parameshwara and Union minister of state for housing and urban affairs  Hardeep Singh Puri. [gallery size="large" td_select_gallery_slide="slide" td_gallery_title_input="Inauguration of six coach train of Bangalore Metro (Namma Metro)" ids="14677,14679,14678,14683,14682,14681,14680,14684"] The CM, along with dignitaries, also traveled in the new six-coach train till Kempegowda Majestic Metro station. The new six-car train which will have one coach reserved for women will run along the Purple Line (Byappanahalli - Mysuru Road) and is expected to help meet peak hour rush. The Purple line was chosen since it is busier...

Bengaluru: Defense Minister Arun Jaitley today launched BEML’s third Line ultra modern metro manufacturing facility to enhance the production of metro cars for the forthcoming metro projects in India. Earlier in the morning, he inaugurated the indigenously designed and developed biggest ever diesel excavator BE1800D and crawler dozer BD475-1 and T-72 hull, meant for fitting into tanks, at Kolar Gold Fields (KGF) unit of Bharath Earth Movers Limited. Later, a number of organisations and local leaders including Kolar MP Muniyappa submitted memoranda against disinvestment of BEML . Speaking to reporters, Muniyappa said he will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi soon to convince him against it. BEML had forayed into manufacturing and supply of hi-tech metro cars during 2002 and as a leading rolling stock supplier has so far supplied over 1,000 metro cars to Delhi, Bengaluru and Jaipur Metro Corporations. On March 27, BEML had secured a  Rs.  1,421-crore contract from Bangalor...