Chennai: The city is only months away from joining the league of cities that have a sophisticated metro rail system in the country. By August this year, the metro train will be partially put on trial

An electrician who was working on a contract basis for the Metro Rail project near Ashok Pillar in Ashok Nagar has been found dead under suspicious circumstances.

The police said that the man, whose

The state government has decided to give a final ‘opportunity’ for owners of over 20,000 unauthorised buildings, including 17,000 residential buildings in the Chennai metropolitan area, for regularisa

Chennaiites will not have to wait too long to have a sophisticated underground metro rail network crisscrossing the city.

A 42-meter long tunnel stands testimony to the city’s pride — part of what

The crucial factory acceptance test (FAT) of the communication system of Chennai Metro Rail was successfully conducted at Singapore recently.

A team of CMRL officials supervised the tests conducted a

Over 1/3 of the 32 metro rail work sites that were briefly thrown out of gear following Wednesday’s fatal mishap at the work site near Pachaiyappa’s College, were back buzzing with activity Friday eve

One person died and six others were injured when a malfunctioning crane dropped a massive steel reinforcement on workers at a CMRL (Chennai Metro Rail Limited) work site near Pachaiyappa’s College on

Commuters might not be able to feel it, but, in a few days, massive tunnel boring machines would be rumbling over 20 meters beneath the arterial Poonammallee High Road, carving out ‘tubes’ for the cit

Road users on the busy Vadapalani-Koyambedu stretch had a miraculous escape on Thursday evening after huge iron scaffolding erected to support an arm of a concrete pillar collapsed.

It was fortunate

The crucial tunnelling of the underground stretch of the on-going Metro Rail project is set to begin this month.

Senior CMRL officials told this newspaper that the drive of the first tunnel-boring ma