Orange Line Metro Train

Minister emphasises that not only Orange Train but also associated stations would transition to solar energy

Train covered 25 million kilometres in two years

Operation contract will move forward after arrival of Chinese contractors

Passengers arriving at international terminal to go through thermal scanners

Approved development budget of Rs350 billion, but it remains largely unutilised

Final schedule of train will be announced before the end of test trials

Cities in developed countries and most developing countries have local trains to facilitate commuters

Govt has already raised fares of metro bus by a whopping 50% by removing subsidy

Project to be tested for three months before it opens for public next year

Civil, electrical and mechanical works have already been completed

NAB sources confirm bureau will soon launch inquiry into OLMT embezzlement

Court directs construction companies to submit guarantees of Rs10m each

On most station escalators and passenger lifts have also been installed

Next step is to install traffic lights along the route

Supreme Court on the Orange Line Metro Train (OLMT) project paid a visit to the site to overview the progress

Steering committee chairman says all 26 stations will be connected over next month

Says metro train is a glowing example of Pakistan-China friendship

Authority officials reluctant to perform after NAB action on senior officials

85.9% civil works of project have been completed so far

CM adviser says efforts have been geared up for finishing project at the earliest

Decides to open Mall Road for traffic as soon as underground construction of metro station is over

CM adviser says government has also renamed central station as GPO Station

The neglect that the historic monuments suffer is visible to all who care to observe

All construction works near heritage sites had been halted since January 28, 2016 due to stay order by top court

Another two sets on their way from China

Two more locomotive sets for the project will reach the city tomorrow

CM says even four years on, not a brick has been laid for PTI’s Peshawar metro project

Unveils first set of rolling stock, vows to accept court decision

Chinese contractors have issued schedule to dispatch remaining 26 trains after arrival of the first one

Punjab govt official says with cases pending in superior courts, December 2017 deadline unlikely to be met

Accident exposes lack of safety protocols for workers at the project site

SNGPL was shifting 12-inch pipeline disrupting metro train works.

Mian Rasheed appeared before the court and said public money was being wasted on the Orange Line metro Train Project.

The train would have an operation speed of 80 kilometres per hour and a total of 27 trains.

So what can be done under such circumstances?

Total of 27 trains, each comprising of five bogeys, would operate to cover a 27-kilometre journey in just 45 minutes.

Official says firefighting weakest wing of Rescue 1122

Seven workers perish in Lahore building blaze

Right of citizens cannot be held hostage

LHC upheld a previous decision to stop construction within 200 feet of 11 heritage sites along the route

LHC orders fresh, independent study of antiquities

Court declares govt's NoC null and void

Contempt of court: FIRs sought against CM, law minister 

Lahore commissioner gives undertaking Cathedral Church of Resurrection’s land will not be acquired

EPD DG Javed Iqbal failed to show up before the division bench hearing petitions against the train project

The administration of St Andrew’s Church has also conveyed its reservations to the train project manager

Only eight petitions in court

Contractors say PRA lacks jurisdiction over public sector development projects

‘Asphalt coating from Dera Gujjaran to Coop Store to be completed before monsoon’

Construction of sports complexes to start from Lahore