Category: Roads

The Jammu-Srinagar national highway was closed for traffic on Monday due to a landslide in Ramban district, leaving hundreds of vehicles stranded, an official said. The 270-km highway, the only all-weather road linking Kashmir with the rest of the country, was blocked by the landslide at Pantiyal area. An iron tunnel setup at this point […]

Private bus services across Nadia district and beyond were hampered on Monday as around 2,500 bus workers began an indefinite ceasework to protest against illegal auto and e-rickshaw services that they claimed created a livelihood crisis for them. None of the over 800 buses, which regularly ply on 100 routes across the district and outside, […]

Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari Thursday fell ill after attending a programme at Siliguri and was attended by doctors, BJP MLA Neeraj Zimba said. Gadkari later recovered and left in his car, he said. “After the programme ended, Gadkari ji complained of uneasiness. The doctors immediately attended to him in the […]

Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday laid the foundation stone of three national highway projects worth Rs 1,206 crore in Siliguri area of north Bengal. Gadkari, who is on a whirlwind tour of the state, said that infrastructure development in north Bengal is key to boosting the region’s tourism industry. “Work for these projects will […]

Union minister for surface transport and roadways Nitin Gadkari is set to visit Siliguri next week to launch the construction of the proposed 13km four-lane elevated road along NH10 in the northern end of the city. The visit is being seen as a part of the BJP’s plan to drive home the point that the […]

The Adani Group, which has bagged the contract to widen a portion of NH19 (erstwhile NH2) to six lanes, is laying special emphasis on generating road safety awareness and reducing the possibility of accidents on the highway. The corporate house has shown interest in augmenting infrastructure in the state in areas like roads and ports. […]

The Balason river bridge in Siliguri reopened to twoway traffic on Monday, after a gap of 10 months during which it was being repaired. The reopening of the bridge, located on NH10 between Bagdogra and Darjeeling More, has come as a relief for lakhs of residents in and around the city and thousands of daily […]

The road transport and highways sector has the maximum number of delayed projects at 300, followed by railways at 119 and petroleum sector at 90, showed a government report. In the road transport and highways sector, 300 out of 825 projects are delayed. In railways, out of 173 projects, 119 are delayed, while for petroleum, […]

The Bengal government has decided to repair or construct new roads at seven industrial parks in the state following complaints about poor condition of roads from investors who have taken up space at industrial parks. “Several industrialists have aired their grievances about the poor condition of roads inside industrial parks. The state government has considered […]

Soon, a person sending photograph of a wrongly parked vehicle may get a reward of Rs 500 in case the fine works out to be Rs 1,000, Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Thursday. Addressing an event here, Gadkari, who is known for his frank views, said that he is contemplating […]

The Union ministry of road transport and highways has floated a tender of over Rs 750 crore for four/six laning of a 12km-long stretch of NH10 (earlier NH 31) that would connect the northwest and northeast ends of Siliguri via Darjeeling More, the principal point to enter the city. In recent months, this is the […]

Battered roads in Salt Lake have taken a turn for the worse with the city receiving spells of rain over the past few days. Giant craters have formed in all three sectors of the township. On Wednesday, The Telegraph drove around Salt Lake and found that almost every major road and the streets in the […]