DELHI celebrated the launch of public services on the first section of the third phase of the city's metro network on June 26, when India's minister for urban development Mr Venkaiah Naudu inaugurated the 3.2km extension of Line 6 from Central Secretariat to Mandi House.

INDIA's new Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government has outlined ambitious plans to build a series of high-speed rail corridors connecting major metropolitan centres during the next 10 years - the so-called "Diamond Quadrilateral" programme.

MUMBAI Metro Line 1 – India's first metro rail project built under a PPP model – launched on June 8, with chief minister of Maharashtra Mr Prithviraj Chavan riding the first train on the elevated 11.4km route from Versova to Ghatkopar.

THE massive electoral win of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in India's recent general election has accelerated plans to build the country's first high-speed line.

THE World Bank has sanctioned a second loan of $US 1.1bn for construction of the 393km Mughalsarai - Bhaupur section of India's Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC).

IN one of its final major decisions before the country's general elections, which are scheduled for next month, India's cabinet last week approved plans for a Rs 14.6bn ($US 240.7m) coach factory at Kolar in the southern state of Karnataka.

BANGALORE welcomed its second metro line on February 28, with the inauguration of the northern section of the Green Line between Sampige Road in Malleshwaram and Peenya Industry.

ALSTOM has successfully delivered the first two trains manufactured at its inaugural Indian rolling stock plant in Sricity, Andhra Pradesh to Chennai Metro Rail (CMRL) as part of a €243m order for 42 Metropolis trains placed in 2010.

DURING the announcement of an interim budget of Rs 643bn ($US 10.26bn) for Indian Railways for 2014-15, India's railways minister Mr Mallikarjun Kharge outlined plans to allow Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to fund infrastructure projects.

THE Indian cabinet announced on January 30 that it has approved plans for the Rs 264bn ($US 4.2bn) second phase of the Bangalore metro network.