Category: Roads

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday night chaired a meeting on the Morbi bridge collapse in Gujarat and asked authorities to extend all possible help to those affected by the tragedy, officials said. At the meeting, which took place at the Raj Bhavan in Gandhinagar, the PM, who is touring poll-bound Gujarat, was briefed on […]

Morbi-based clock and e-bike maker Oreva group was given a contract by the Morbi Municipality to repair and operate the ill-fated hanging bridge for 15 years and charge tickets in the range of Rs 10 to Rs 15 for its use, as per documents of the municipality assessed on Monday. A day before, the bridge […]

Police have registered an FIR on charges of culpable homicide against agencies given the task of maintenance and operation of the bridge in Gujarat’s Morbi city which collapsed, killing 134 people, officials said on Monday. Morbi Municipality’s chief officer Sandeepsinh Zala told reporters on Sunday that the city-based clocks and e-bike maker Oreva Group was […]

The Congress on Monday demanded a probe headed by a retired Supreme Court or High Court judge into the Morbi suspension bridge collapse in Gujarat. The Opposition party also sought financial and medical assistance from the government to all those affected. Over 130 people have died in the bridge collapse. The more than a century-old […]

Even as roads crumble and potholes blossom at every third intersection, the BBMP’s attention seems to have turned to vacant spaces underneath flyovers. The civic body is preparing to splurge Rs 10.46 crore to give a theme-based makeover to vacant spaces under Sivananda Circle, Sumanahalli and Anand Rao Circle flyovers, and a place closer to […]

A 22-year-old student riding a motorcycle died after being struck by a car driver in northern Bengaluru’s Yelahanka New Town on Saturday night in what is suspected to be yet another pothole-related death in the city. The driver is reported to have lost control of the car while negotiating an elongated rainwater-filled pothole on Attur […]

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has set the process in motion to prepare a detailed project report for the proposed Bengaluru-Pune Expressway. The greenfield access-controlled expressway connecting two major IT hubs – Bengaluru and Pune – will stretch across 699 km and is estimated to cost around Rs 50,000 crore. The six-lane […]

The collapse of a suspension bridge in Gujarat on Sunday was one of the deadliest disasters of its kind to rock the country in years. Here is a recap of some previous bridge collapses over the past two decades which have left at least 20 dead or missing around the world. At least 60 people […]

A family from Ahmedabad had visited the suspension bridge in Gujarat’s Morbi town on Sunday afternoon when few youth were shaking the bridge due to which the former feared that it would damage the bridge so they alerted the security guard on duty but his response was lukewarm. Vijay Goswami, a resident of Ahmedabad, had […]

Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel visited Morbi city in the state on Sunday night and took stock of the ongoing rescue operation after a newly-restored suspension bridge over Machchhu river collapsed in the evening, killing at least 60 people. After reaching Morbi, Patel along with Minister of State for Home Harsh Sanghavi, reached the river […]

The suspension bridge on the Machchhu river in Gujarat’s Morbi that collapsed on Sunday evening killing several people was reopened for the public just four days back after seven months of repair work by a private firm, but had not received the municipality’s “fitness certificate”, an official said. The more than a century-old bridge in […]

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday said he was deeply saddened by the suspension bridge collapse in Gujarat’s Morbi that claimed at least 60 lives and appealed to party workers in the state to extend every possible assistance in rescue work. Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi also said the news of the bridge collapse accident […]