We are continuously scoring centuries: PM Narendra Modi tells Karnataka CM as Bengaluru’s Namma Metro crosses 100-km mark
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Bengaluru (Byline only for net) Prime Minister Narendra Modi drew a comparison between India reaching the milestone of 100 chess Grandmasters and Bengaluru’s Namma Metro expanding its network beyond 100 km during his speech at the inauguration of the elevated section of the Pink Line of Namma Metro on November 13. Mind the gap: Partial opening of Namma Metro Pink Line leaves commuters wanting storyline 1 “We are continuously scoring centuries. D.K.
Shivakumarji, I was mentioning this because you may have heard a few days ago that India scored a century in Grandmaster chess. India now has 100 chess Grandmasters,” Mr. Modi told the Chief Minister of Karnataka, referring to the expansion of the Namma Metro network.
Hundredth GM milestone underlines India’s remarkable growth in chess storyline 1 He noted that Namma Metro, which had a network of just 17 km in 2014, had expanded to more than 100 km. With this achievement, Bengaluru has become the third metropolitan region in the country, after Delhi-NCR and Mumbai, to cross the 100-km mark in its metro network.
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