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Last Updated: March 18, 2024, 10:10 ISTKolkata: India's First Underwater Metro Welcomes Over 1 Lakh Passengers In Two Days. (Representational Image)(Photo: Zee News)The Howrah Maidan-Esplanade section forms a crucial part of the East-West metro corridor, being the second operational stretch between Howrah Maidan and the IT hub Salt Lake Sector V. In just two days since its launch, the new Metro route from Howrah Maidan to Esplanade has seen an impressive 1,35,000 footfalls.The first day alone saw over 70,000 commuters…

Cuong Tran, a man who was aboard the Alaska Airlines plane that lost a door mid-flight, has recently recounted his terrifying experience on the Boeing aircraft.On January 5, 2024, an Alaska Airlines flight from Portland, Oregon, to Ontario, California, had to do an emergency landing due to an uncontrolled decompression 16,000 ft above Portland. Highlights Passenger Cuong Tran recounted his "terrifying" experience aboard the Alaska Airlines plane that lost a door mid-flight. The incident was caused by missing…

ORNL researchers achieved the highest wireless power transfer level for a light-duty passenger vehicle when the team demonstrated a 100-kW wireless power transfer to an EV using ORNL's patented polyphase electromagnetic coupling coil. Credit: Credit: Genevieve Martin/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy A team of researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has demonstrated that a light-duty passenger electric vehicle can be…

From funky costumes to unexpected fluffy companions, rideshare drivers are full of surprises. However, so are the passengers, and as Reddit user smkAce0921 learned, they’re not always pleasant.In a post on the platform’s ‘Malicious Compliance’ forum, he explained that a couple of years ago, when he was Ubering, people started increasingly employing a scheme that was meant to get them out of paying a significant portion of the journey cost.Not to be outdone, the Redditor began fighting back at the dirty…

Last Updated: February 28, 2024, 10:50 ISTAdani Group Planning Partnership With Uber, Aims To Roll Out New Passenger Vehicle Fleet.The group will list the vehicles on ride-hailing platforms such as Uber in the cities where it operates airports.The Adani Group is now looking to make an entrance into the cab service space with a partnership alongside Uber.Reportedly, negotiations took place between the two sides recently, hinting towards possible future collaborations between the Adani Group and Uber.As per the Economic…

Imagine the sheer bliss of having an entire bus, a whole movie theatre, a parking lot, or even a public restroom entirely to yourself.Privacy is indeed among the simplest, yet ultimate, luxuries of life. That is until someone decides to waltz in and shatter it all by sitting, standing or parking way too close to you and making you feel like they are invading your personal space. This is precisely what happened to a Southwest Airlines passenger, who was thoroughly enjoying the luxury of a nearly-empty flight until a…

A Canadian tribunal has ruled that Air Canada must pay damages to one of its passengers for misleading advice given by its customer service chatbot, which resulted in the passenger paying nearly double for their plane tickets.No Google AI Search, I Don’t Need to Learn About the “Benefits of Slavery” The case centered on the experience of Jake Moffatt, who flew round-trip from Vancouver to Toronto after his grandmother died in 2022. At the time, Moffatt visited Air Canada’s website to book a flight using the company’s…

I wonder why all sorts of drama involving various entitled people often unfolds on transport, and specifically on airplanes? Perhaps being in a confined space with many other people somehow affects a person’s subconscious, revealing their darkest edges; who knows? But the fact is that plane drama is a pretty common thing.For example, here’s a story from the user u/Dramatic_Safe_4257 in the AITAH Reddit community, who specifically bought the third seat in the row they were sitting in with their friend – and still…

Two occupants of a car that plunged into a freezing Oslo fjord escaped unharmed when a floating sauna came to their rescue, Norwegian police have said. A video obtained by NTB on Thursday shows the Tesla, partially submerged in the water, with its occupants sitting on the roof. The car can be seen sinking under the water just as the floating sauna pulls up next to it and people on the sauna boat pull the motorists from the freezing waters…

Getting to the gate on time when catching a flight might be crucial, yet sometimes, despite making it before the common gate closing time, it may still require some additional effort from a passenger.At least this Redditor had to try hard to first, get accepted for a flight and second, to get the seat they paid extra for, eventually questioning whether they actually did something wrong and seeking advice online.More info: RedditA woman gets her seat back, yet gets scolded for unknowingly taking it from a passenger with…