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New Delhi: The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) today launched ‘High speed Free Wi-Fi’ facilitiy at Metro stations on its Blue Line i.e, Line-3/4 (Dwarka Sec-21 to Noida City Centre/Vaishali). DMRC’s Managing Director, Dr. Mangu Singh formally launched the facility from the Rajiv Chowk Metro station. The facility titled “Oui DMRC Free Wi-Fi” will be available on all 50 stations of the Blue Line. A person will be able to log in simply by searching for Wi-Fi options and log into “Oui DMRC Free Wi-Fi” after doing a onetime registration through their mobile phones. With this facility, passengers will be able to use all standard internet applications inside the station premises like email, Face book, Google, video chat as well as live streaming of cricket and football matches etc. For providing this free wifi facility, DMRC has tied up with a consortium led by M/s Techno Sat Comm which is already providing the same facility on all six Metro statio...

New Delhi: The Delhi Metro"s Blue Line services came to a halt today due to a technical snag near Indraprastha station, stranding thousands of commuters, officials said. The Blue Line connects Dwarka Sector 21 with Noida City Centre and Vaishali. "Some strands of overhead equipment wire (OHE) reportedly sagged between Indraprastha and Yamuna Bank section on the line going towards Noida-Vaishali at 4.55 pm," a Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) official said. "The OHE team is taking remedial measures and train movement is being regulated on this section for the time being," he said. The snag forced people to wait for a long time at the stations, commuters said. "I waited for the train at Dwarka station for 40 minutes. But when it didn"t turn up, I took the Airport Line, which is still a fair bet to reach ITO," a commuter said. It took another commuter more than an hour to reach Rajiv Chowk from Noida"s Sector 16 Metro station. "The trai...