A part of an elevated road being constructed on Gurugram’s Sohna Road collapsed on Saturday night around 10.15 pm. The broken span is part of the 6km elevated road being built along Sohna Road as part of the Gurugram-Sohna-Alwar highway project, starting from Rajiv Chowk. According to police, two persons were injured when the huge […]
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Critical road infra building to put India on par with US, UK in 2 years: Gadkari
Focus on critical infrastructure building through an integrated approach, right from a number of strategic tunnels and bridges to 22 green expressways, is bound to place India in the league of advanced nations like the US, UK and Australia in the coming two years, union minister Nitin Gadkari has said. Apart from a number of […]
J&K L-G inaugurates phase-I of Jammu ring road project
During his maiden visit to Jammu on Friday Lt-Governor J&K Manoj Sinha inaugurated Phase-I of the 58.25 Km long Jammu ring road between Akhnoor road, Kangrail and Bhalwal. The foundation stone of the ring road was laid by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in May 2018. The project, funded under Prime Ministers Development fund, is scheduled […]
412 infra projects show cost overruns of Rs 4.11 lakh crore
As many as 412 infrastructure projects, each worth Rs 150 crore or more, have been hit by cost overruns of over Rs 4.11 lakh crore owing to delays and other reasons, according to a report. The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation monitors infrastructure projects worth Rs 150 crore and above.Of the 1,683 such projects, […]
India rejects reference to J-K in China-Pak joint statement
India on Saturday categorically rejected the reference made to Jammu and Kashmir in a joint statement issued by Pakistan and China after talks between foreign ministers of the two countries. Spokesperson in the Ministry of External Affairs Anurag Srivastava said the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir is an “integral and inalienable” part of India […]
India to see gas share rise to 10 pc by 2025: GAIL director
India may see the share of natural gas in its energy basket rise to 10 per cent by 2025 as a result of massive investment push in the creation of infrastructure to take the environment-friendly fuel to consumers, GAIL Director (Marketing) E S Ranganathan said on Friday. Currently, natural gas makes up about 6.2 per […]
Fire incident at Srisailam hydroelectric plant deeply unfortunate: PM
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday described the Srisailam hydroelectric plant fire tragedy, in which nine persons were killed, as “deeply unfortunate” and hoped that the injured recover at the earliest. The incident took place late Thursday night in the plant on the Telangana-Andhra Pradesh border. “Fire at the Srisailam hydroelectric plant is deeply unfortunate. […]
9 killed in Srisailam hydel power plant fire mishap in Telangana
Nine people died in a fire mishap in the Srisailam hydroelectric plant on the Telangana-Andhra Pradesh border on Friday, a senior government official said. Six bodies have been recovered by rescue teams so far and efforts were on to pull out the others from the underground plant, Nagarkurnool District Collector L Sharman said. The fire […]
UPPCL clears Rs 5,250 crore of sugar mills
The Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Limited has paid Rs 5,250 crore, which is half of the outstanding dues to sugar mills with co-generators in the state, for 2019-20. The dues were cleared after the power distribution company received money from Power Finance Corporation Limited and Rural Electrification Corporation Limited, both Central PSUs. As part of […]
BHEL wins order for Battery Energy Storage system
Amidst stiff competitive bidding, Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited has won its first commercial order for state-of-the-art Battery Energy Storage Systems from The Energy and Resource Institute. The company has signed a contract agreement with TERI for setting up of a cumulative 410 kWh Battery Energy Storage Systems in Delhi. The tender was issued by TERI […]
Plane carrying dissident in coma leaves Russia for Germany
A plane carrying a Russian dissident who is in a coma after a suspected poisoning left for a German hospital Saturday following much wrangling over Alexei Navalny’s condition and treatment. The plane could be seen taking off from an airport in the Siberian city of Omsk just after 8 a.m. local time. Navalny, a 44-year-old […]
Gurugram paralysed with traffic snarls, waterlogging, road cave-in
Heavy rain played havoc for the second consecutive day that resulted in waterlogging and heavy traffic snarls at several places across the city. According to the IMD, in the last 48 hours, Gurugram received 158 mm of rain which caused water-logging and flood like situation on multiple stretches and areas in the city. Both vehicular […]