THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Greece’s second largest city, Thessaloniki, is getting a brand new subway system that will showcase archaeological discoveries made during construction that held up the project for decades. The 9.6-kilometer inaugural line will officially open on Nov. 30, using driverless trains and platform screen doors. Construction began in earnest in 2003 and unearthed a treasure trove of antiquities in a vast excavation beneath the densely populated city of a million residents. “This project offers a remarkable blend of the ancient and modern, integrating archaeological heritage with metro infrastructure,” Christos Staikouras, the transport and infrastructure minister, told reporters Friday on a media tour of the subway. Tunneling followed ancient commercial routes through the center of the port city that has been continuously inhabited since ancient times. It exposed a Roman-era thoroughfare, ancient Greek burial sites, water and drainage systems, mosaics and inscriptions and tens of thousands of artifacts spanning centuries, also through Byzantine and Ottoman rule. The tunnels had to be bored at a greater depth than originally planned, adding cost and delays, to preserve the ancient discoveries. Key pieces of what was found have been put on display along the underground network of 13 stations including a section of the marble-paved Roman thoroughfare at the central Venizelou Station. “The project faced substantial delays and many challenges, including over 300,000 archaeological finds, many of which are now showcased at various stations along the main line,” Staikouras said. The Thessaloniki metro was first conceived more than a century ago and its completion has been greeted with quiet amazement by residents who for years used the metro project as a punchline for bureaucratic delays and undelivered promises. Government officials said the cost of the metro so far has reached 3 billion euros ($3.1 billion) for the completed first line of the subway system and most of a second line which is currently under construction and due to be delivered in a year. The construction consortium was made up by Greece’s Aktor, Italy’s Webuild and Japan’s Hitachi Rail.Border Cats home opener slated for May 28When poverty and pet ownership intersect, what's the most humane thing to do?
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Srinagar, Nov 23: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers in Srinagar on Saturday celebrated the party’s victory in Maharashtra Assembly polls. The BJP workers assembled outside the party headquarters at Jawahar Nagar here this afternoon. They distributed sweets and burst crackers to express their joy. BJP’s Kashmir spokesman Altaf Thakur while talking to Greater Kashmir said, “BJP’s win is the victory of vikas (progress) and defeat of the family raaj. Every community supported the NDA, especially the BJP.” “This win will have a direct impact on the poll results of other places like Delhi. After Uttar Pradesh Maharashtra is the second largest state.” Another BJP leader said, “Our party performed very well in the Assembly elections in J&K also. We won 29 seats in Jammu region. Our vote share increased in Kashmir but unfortunately couldn’t form the government in J&K.” He said that BJP workers couldn’t celebrate after the results of J&K Assembly elections were announced but today, they got a chance to give vent to their feelings. “Maharashtra victory has rejuvenated BJP workers across the country,” he added. It is in place to mention here that the BJP secured a historic win in the Maharashtra assembly elections with the party winning around 129 of the 288 seats, while its alliance Mahayuti is set to win over 200 seats, comfortably crossing the majority mark.Kanpur: A 17-year-old Dalit girl was found dead in a barely clad state in her house here in Shivrajpur, police said on Saturday. The girl was found bare-chested with the presence of “sex enhancement drugs” in her body, they said. An 18-year-old youth, detained for interrogation in connection with the murder, confessed he sexually assaulted the girl, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (West) Vijendra Dwivedi said. According to him, the girl was alone at her house on Friday with her parents away for a wedding, the officer said. On Saturday morning, her sister-in-law, who lives in the adjacent house, went there to wake her up and found her dead, he said. The girl’s body was sent for a postmortem for more leads into the death, police said.
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