Category: Roads

This bridge connects disaster with disaster. On February 28 this year, Bonobibi Setu across the river Katakhali was inaugurated in Hasnabad in North 24 Parganas district in Bengal. The bridge, delivered just before the elections, is being touted by the Trinamul government as a triumph of “development” in the area, as it connects Hasnabad, the […]

The slow construction of the 1,250-metre Kantatoli flyover from YMCA to Kokar on Old HB Road is triggering bottlenecks that the traffic cops are finding hard to ease. President Ram Nath Kovind had laid the foundation stone for the Rs 90-crore project on November 15, 2017. Jharkhand Urban Infrastructure Development Company Limited (Juidco) is the […]

The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) on Thursday said banks can declare as non-performing assets (NPAs) the accounts of IL&FS and its group companies that have defaulted on their payments. An NCLAT bench headed by chairman Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya lifted the embargo on the lenders to declare the accounts of the debt-ridden IL&FS and […]

The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) on Thursday said banks can declare as non-performing assets (NPAs) the accounts of IL&FS and its group companies that have defaulted on their payments. An NCLAT bench headed by chairman Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya lifted the embargo on the lenders to declare the accounts of the debt-ridden IL&FS and […]

A bridge over the Sisar river, which will connect East Siang and Lower Dibang Valley districts in Arunachal Pradesh, is nearing completion after over a decade. The construction of both ends of the bridge is almost complete with the middle portion finished earlier. The Sisiri bridge will connect western and central locations in the state […]

Hari Sankaran, former chairman and managing director of crisis-hit Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services (IL&FS), has been arrested for alleged fraud, abuse of power and causing wrongful loss to the troubled infrastructure lender. “The Serious Fraud Investigation Office on Monday arrested Hari Sankaran in connection with the ongoing investigations into the affairs of IL&FS and […]

A study is being conducted to find out whether it is feasible to build an entry and an exit ramp of the Garden Reach flyover, which has remained underutilised since its inauguration a year ago. The Calcutta Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA), which is the custodian of the flyover, had asked engineering consultancy firm RITES about […]

“No road, no vote” read the banner that scores of people unfurled. They chanted slogans to demand a pucca road to their villages, and vowed to boycott the Lok Sabha polls if it was not fulfilled. Hailing from villages under Chhotka Nuaon panchayat in Buxar district, around 180km west from Bihar’s capital, the people sat […]

Police have lodged an FIR, with the provision to add names later, blaming the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation for Thursday’s collapse of the Himalaya foot overbridge near the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus that has claimed six lives and injured 30. The civic body, responsible for maintaining the bridge, announced its own probe but demolished the collapsed […]

licking selfies on the picturesque Domuhani bridge in Sonari will not be risky anymore. Acting on the directive of East Singhbhum deputy commissioner Amit Kumar, Jusco has started to install a welded mesh on the median of the 252-metre long bridge. “The mesh is being erected in view of the safety of visitors who sometimes […]

Layers of bitumen will be scraped off the surface of Tallah bridge after a preliminary survey by the PWD revealed that they may be compromising on the load-bearing capacity of the structure. Patchwork repair, which involves piling a layer of bitumen, is common on city roads. When Majerhat bridge collapsed on September 4 last year, […]

Reliance Infrastructure (Rel Infra), an Anil Ambani group firm, is selling its entire stake in the Delhi-Agra Toll Roadway to Singapore-based Cube Highways for Rs 3,600 crore. The transaction is expected to bring down its debt by 25 per cent to less than Rs 5,000 crore. Rel Infra on Thursday announced that it had signed […]