No refunds on Metro cards from April 1

NEW DELHI: Delhi Metro said on Tuesday that prepaid card users will not be able to take a refund of unspent funds from April 1, a decision taken “in order to comply with guidelines/directives of the Reserve Bank of India”.

Passengers will be given a sunset period from March 1 to 31, during which they may take refunds, a statement said.

The recharge amount has also been capped at ₹2,000.

“This is ahead of trying to make the card interoperable... for use in metros, buses, and even parking lots in the future,” DMRC spokesperson Anuj Dayal said. The DMRC is currently in talks with Delhi Transport Corporation and other stakeholders to make the card interoperable.

All other rules and regulations regarding the cards remain unchanged and users will be able to recover the security deposit, after paying cancellation charges, when they surrender their cards. NEWDELHI:A week after he shot to limelight for coming to the rescue of two Indian engineers who were shot at a Kansas bar by a US navy veteran, fame sits lightly on the shoulders of Ian Grillot.

Recovering from injuries caused by a bullet that pierced his hand and lodged in his chest, the 24-year-old says what he did last Wednesday was what he’d have expected anyone to do.

“Nobody deserves to be treated in that manner, my folks raised me (in such a way) that everybody is an equal… Everybody’s a human, let’s treat everybody as that. So I mean it was just, I felt I had no choice. I would just hope that somebody would do that for me,” Grillot told Hindustan Times via Skype in his first interview since the shooting.

Srinivas Kuchibhotla, 32, an employee of GPS-maker Garmin, was killed when Adam Purinton opened fire after shouting “get