Category: Roads

Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday held a meeting with the Border Roads Organisation director-general and reviewed the progress in infrastructure projects along the Line of Actual Control with China and Line of Control with Pakistan, sources in the ministry said. During the hour-long meeting with BRO chief Lt Gen. Harpal Singh, Rajnath directed officials […]

The urban development department has given technical approval for a flyover that will connect Metropolitan on EM Bypass with Biswa Bangla Gate in New Town, officials said. The tender for the project, likely to cost around Rs 800 crore, will be floated after the finance department’s nod comes. The 3.5km-flyover will take off from Metropolitan […]

The urban development department will undertake another round of repairs of several flyovers and bridges in Calcutta, some of which engineers had wanted demolished. The flyover that connects EM Bypass to VIP Road near Ultadanga, the ones in Baghajatin and Chingrighata, and the Kalighat bridge are among the ones that will be repaired, officials said. […]

A road which has been under construction for years and which has put human lives at risk has forced four villages in Meghalaya along the India-Bangladesh border to resolve that it would be better if they were given away to the neighbouring country. The villages have also resolved to seek financial help from Bangladesh to […]

Highways and telecom are the two new sectors where the Narendra Modi government plans to raise entry barriers to Chinese businesses. The BSNL cancelled on Wednesday a tender for rolling out the 4G network after the department of telecom (DoT) asked the telecom operator to stop using Chinese telecom equipment, delivering a massive blow to […]

India will not allow Chinese companies to participate in highway projects, including those through joint ventures, Union minister Nitin Gadkari said on Wednesday amid border standoff with China. Gadakri also said the government will ensure that Chinese investors are not entertained in various sectors like Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). The senior minister’s assertions […]

Heavy rains over the past 24 hours triggered landslides at multiple places in North Sikkim, cutting off the sensitive district on the China border from the rest of the state for over an hour on Thursday morning at a time there was heightened tension across all frontiers with China. The major landslides had occurred on […]

The Congress on Monday demanded revocation of contract for a Chinese firm to build the second bridge over the Ganges in Farakka following the death of 20 Indian soldiers in a clash with Chinese troops in Ladakh last week. The under-construction bridge with four lanes will be 2.58km long and will rest on 88 pillars. […]

A bridge in Uttarakhand’s Pithoragarh district that is 65km from the Line of Actual Control between India and China collapsed on Monday under the weight of a truck carrying an excavator, cutting off the only road link to the LAC from the region. The 60-metre Valley Bridge, which split from the middle and fell into […]

Two major highways in north Bengal, NH12 and NH27, are virtually in tatters, with residents, mango traders and even administrative officials prodding the National Highways Authority of Indian (NHAI) to take up repairs. On Monday, villagers from the outskirts of Raiganj in North Dinajpur blocked NH12 for two hours starting 10.30am, demanding immediate repairs of […]

Subways with escalators are being built at the Rabindra Tirtha crossing below the Kolkata Gate in New Town to help pedestrians safely cross the 59m-wide six-lane Major Arterial Road. The decision to build four subways at the crossing was taken following a proposal from the Bidhannagar commissionerate’s traffic department because of heavy traffic and pedestrian […]

Road and railway networks in north Bengal have come under renewed focus of the Union government with heightened tension on the China border, which seems to have prompted the Centre to augment the communication infrastructure in the region for the movement of military equipment. “There seems to be a tearing hurry to complete some of […]