Category: Roads

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday raised the matter of battered roads in the city and neighbouring areas during an administrative review meeting in Nabanna. She said she had found the top coat of a road missing while on her way to Nabanna a few days ago. She spoke of a road in Howrah’s Kona […]

The Centre has set a 30-day deadline for Bengal to hand over the rest of the “7 to 8 per cent” land to the National Highways Authority of India for a long-pending project to widen a 67km stretch of NH12 (erstwhile NH34) between Krishnagar and Baro Jaguli in Nadia, sources in the PWD have said. […]

The government is scouting for funds for the Rs 110-lakh-crore infrastructure projects planned over the next five years. The Centre is considering the option of tapping the financial markets, global investors, and banks for the implementation of the projects. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had emphasised on these infrastructure projects during his Independence Day speech. However, […]

You may be having a tough time negotiating potholes on your way to the market but for now it’s — not the streets but — the footpaths that are being repaired. Sidewalks being worked upon include main thoroughfares including the First Avenue that connects Salt Lake to Ultadanga, the Seventh Cross Road that leads from […]

Villagers in Jharkhand’s Dhanbad district decided to have faith in their own abilities to carve a road out of a hill after failing to get the administration and public representatives to move to their plight even after repeated requests. In over a month, more than 150 residents of Gangapur in Dahuldih panchayat of Baghmara block […]

The Dhakuria flyover will be shut from 10pm on Friday to 6am on Monday for a load test, police said. Built in 1963, the 380m-long bridge without piers has been under the scanner since the collapse of the Majerhat flyover in 2018 because of its crumbling structure. The load test will be carried out to […]

The northeast has the potential to become India’s growth engine, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday, noting that peace is now being established in the entire region. He made these remarks at the foundation stone laying ceremony of the Manipur water supply project via video link. While blockades have become a part of history […]

Net profits at Larsen & Toubro slumped 79 per cent for the quarter ended June 30, 2020 as orders took a beating and industrial activity was affected by the lockdown. The conglomerate reported a consolidated net profit of Rs 303.14 crore against Rs 1,472.58 crore in the year-ago period. The results would have been worse […]

Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services (IL&FS) Group expects to resolve over Rs 57,000 crore of its debt, which is more than 50 per cent of its overall debt of Rs 99,000 crore. Of this, the group estimates to address around Rs 50,500 crore of its debt by March 2021 and an additional debt of Rs […]

Jibanananda Setu that connects the Bypass with Prince Anwar Shah Road and Jadavpur crossing through the Avishikta connector will be closed for three days starting Friday night for a load test. Calcutta Metropolitan Development Authority officials said the bridge would be closed for a load test and other structural assessment work between 10pm on July […]

Traffic from India to Bhutan commenced along Asian Highway 48 for the first time on Wednesday. To mark the start of the trade through the new route that would connect Pasakha, an industrial town in the neighbouring country located close to Phuentsholing with India, senior officials of Bhutan and India assembled at land customs stations […]

Nepal has stopped the construction of a branch of an Indian national highway along the international border in Bihar’s Sitamarhi district claiming it had encroached on no-man’s land, further straining the ties between the countries. The neighbouring country’s move enraged those engaged in the road-laying project and also locals on the Indian side, following which […]