Category: Roads

Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) government has initiated an investigation to ascertain the facts regarding the adoption of a resolution in the region’s Legislative Assembly seeking an opening of a Kartarpur-type corridor connecting both sides of Kashmir. PoK “Prime Minister” Sardar Tanveer Ilyas Khan shared this plan in his speech at a dinner hosted by him in […]

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has sought a response from the Ministry of Jal Shakti and the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) on the permissibility of constructing temporary bridges on rivers for mining. The tribunal was considering a case concerning the construction of a temporary bridge across the Yamuna at Sonipat in […]

Catering to 3 lakh passengers a day, the 500-metre stretch on the NH-48, that has been closed for work on the Dwarka expressway project, remains a “choke point” for vehicles going between Delhi and Gurgaon, as well as intra-city commuters. It has been close to three weeks since the stretch (between Rangpuri and Rajokri) was […]

Baltana railway underpass project has moved a step closer to seeing the light of day with the Northern Railway floating a tender of an estimated cost of Rs 4.94 crore for the construction of a limited height subway (2x7m x3.6m) at the level crossing No. C-123 on the Ambala-Kalka section recently. The tender, invited on […]

As many as 397 public welfare projects in J&K remained incomplete despite incurring an expenditure of over Rs 1,000 crore over the past decade till the end of financial year 2021-22, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has said. As many as 378 of these projects were taken up by different government departments between 2019 […]

In a major respite to commuters, the Union government has approved a budget of Rs 129.40 crore for the widening of a 32-km stretch on the Kaithal-Cheeka-Patiala highway. The section, which currently has two lanes and is a regular witness to traffic jams, would be four-laned as part of this project. This road connects Haryana […]

A four-member fact-finding team of the Public Works Department (PWD), formed to probe the reasons behind the collapse of a slab of an under-construction bridge near Jahu in Hamirpur district of Himachal Pradesh, inspected the spot late evening on Saturday. The quality control team of the department gathered evidence throughout the day and noted down […]

Two more viaduct bridges are being constructed on the Parwanoo-Solan section of the National Highway-5 (NH), the four-laning of which was completed in June 2021. One such bridge has already been constructed on the 39-km stretch of the Parwanoo-Solan road. All three bridges were not conceived in the detailed project report (DPR) prepared for this […]

Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala has announced that roads in the state will be widened and strengthened as per requirements. The Ministry of Road, Transport and Highways, under the Central Road and Infrastructure Fund (CRIF) scheme, has approved the widening and strengthening of 11 roads and 11 bridges in the state, which will cost around […]

A toll plaza set up on the Kiratpur Sahib-Nangal-Una road near Nakkian village in November 2007 was shut down today. Speaking at the site, Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann said it was the eighth toll plaza being shut down by his government in a year. An amount of over Rs 10 lakh per day was being […]

A toll plaza set up on the Kiratpur Sahib-Nangal-Una stretch of the road near Nakkian village 15 years ago was shut down here on Saturday. On the occasion, Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann said it is the eighth toll plaza shut down by his government in the past one year. He alleged that the SAD and […]

The Enforcement Directorate today said it had issued a provisional attachment order under provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) to seize assets worth Rs 10.29 crore belonging to the accused in connection with its probe into Punjab’s NH-74 scam. In a statement, the ED said it had attached immovable properties worth Rs […]