Services were affected on the Red Line and a section of the Blue Line corridors of the Delhi Metro on Thursday evening due to technical glitches, officials said. The snag on the Blue Line, which connects Dwarka to Noida Electronic City, affected services for around 30 minutes, a senior official said. The glitch affected services between Ramkrishna Mission Ashram and Dwarka metro stations.

PM Narendra Modi laid foundation stones for two thermal power plants, one in Uttar Pradesh and the other in Bihar, while slamming previous governments for "ignoring" the power sector. The prime minister, who was in western UP inaugurated Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya Archaeology Institute in Greater Noida and flagged off a new section of the Delhi Metro, connecting Noida City Centre and Noida Electronic City.

Train services were affected twice on Wednesday on the Delhi Metro's Blue Line due to signalling issues on the different sections of the corridor, officials said. A senior Delhi Metro official said the first technical snag occurred around 3 pm. "Train services were affected due to signalling issue (loss of centralised view intermittently) on the Karol Bagh-Dwarka section," he said.