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TopicMumbai monorail

Topic: Mumbai monorail

Mumbai Monorail 2.0? Safety certification for white elephant, but still waiting for green flag

After months of shutdowns and breakdowns, MMRDA Mumbai Monorail ready for reset. But with 3 abrupt halts in 2025 still fresh in commuter memory—and no restart date—it now faces a credibility test.

3rd abrupt halt in a month: Poor ridership & shoddy upkeep are catching up to Mumbai monorail

MMMOCL said a technical slag caused train to halt mid-track. The 17 passengers onboard were transferred to another train and taken to the next station.

How a new, independent team hopes to improve Mumbai’s sluggish monorail system

Since the Mumbai monorail's inception in 2014, it has been plagued with low ridership and technical glitches.

Mumbai’s monorail is only 5 years old and is already struggling to source spares and rakes

For Mumbai monorail rakes contract, the MMRDA has extended the deadline for bidders twice and relaxed eligibility criteria.

For Rahul, 2019 bigger challenge than scaling Mount Kailash and demonetisation ‘flop show’

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The failure that is India’s first monorail

At 17,000 a day, ridership is a far cry from glossy estimates of 1.5 lakhs; government not keen on expanding monorail network after failure of the first line.

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US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.