Silliguri, Dec 29 (ANI): An organisation spearheading the campaign for a separate Gorkhaland state here on Monday demanded that the next round of tripartite talks should be held at the political level.
The decision was taken at the central committee meeting of the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM).
GJM is demanding a new state of ‘Gorkhaland’ to [...]
Agartala, Dec 20 (IANS) India will invest Rs.1,666 crore (Rs.16.66 billion) to develop highways in Tripura and Mizoram to improve connectivity of the landlocked northeastern states with Bangladesh and Myanmar, an official said here Sunday.
‘The Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure (CCI) gave clearance for four-laning of the National Highway 44 (from Shillong) up to Tripura’s [...]
Bhubaneshwar, Dec 16 (ANI): At least five persons were killed and four others injured in a road mishap on National Highways No.6 near Baragarh this morning.
According to sources, the incident took place when a jeep carrying nine persons heading towards Harishankar in Bolangir district collided head on with a gas cylinder loaded truck coming [...]
New Delhi, Dec 15(ANI): The Government on Tuesday said that it proposes to enhance security cover in Agra during the 2010 Commonwealth Games to be held in the national capital.
In a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha, Minister of [...]
New Delhi, Dec 15 (IANS) Security for the Taj Mahal and its surrounding areas will be beefed up for the Commonwealth Games next year, Minister of State for Home Mullappally Ramachandran told the Lok Sabha Tuesday.
‘The Uttar Pradesh Police has been sensitized on the need to augment security arrangements around the Taj Mahal,’ said Ramachandran. [...]
New Delhi, Dec 11 (IANS) The government is setting up a network of trauma care centres along the Golden Quadrilateral, and the north-south and east-west corridors of the national highways at a total cost of Rs.732.75 crore, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad told parliament Friday.
‘The trauma care facilities are established by upgrading and strengthening existing [...]
Bangalore, Nov 25 (IANS) India has approached the World Bank for $3 billion to fund widening of 7,000-km single-lane national highways into double lanes, Road Transport and Highways Minister Kamal Nath said Wednesday.
‘We have applied to the World Bank for $3 billion ($2.97 billion) for building double lanes on 7,000 km of national highways, which [...]
Raipur, Nov 19 (IANS) Farmers in Chhattisgarh Thursday called a statewide shutdown Nov 25, accusing the state’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of not living up to its pre-election promise of a bonus of Rs.270 per quintal of paddy it procured.
Sanjukat Kisan Morcha, an umbrella organisation of various farmers’ bodies, said it has called the [...]
Patna, Nov 14 (IANS) Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar urged the Indian Road Congress (IRC) to set standards for rural roads and chalk out a work plan for maintenance of all kinds of roads across the country. The 70th session began here Saturday.
Inaugurating the session, Nitish Kumar said that engineers and experts attending the meet [...]
Shillong, Nov 5 (IANS) Following a series of protests by environmentalist and political groups, the Meghalaya government has put on hold the infrastructure development work in the area where uranium is proposed to be mined.
The decision came after the government held separate meetings here Wednesday night with Khasi Students’ Union (KSU) and the Coordination Committee [...]
New Delhi, Oct 22 (ANI): Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Kamal Nath on Thursday constituted a committee headed by Secretary (Road Transport and Highways) to look into Road Safety and Traffic Management issues in the country.
According to a press release of the Ministry the committee is a stopgap arrangement and will cease to [...]
Hyderabad, Oct 8 (IANS) The Andhra Pradesh government has released Rs.167 crore for repairs and restoration of roads damaged by the devastating floods that hit the state, a senior official said Thursday.
Minister for Roads and Buildings G. Aruna Kumari told reporters that state highways in 13 districts were damaged by heavy rains and floods. The [...]
Bhubaneswar, Oct 7 (IANS) A bus owners’ body in Orissa Wednesday called off their strike against hiked toll fees on national highways, an association official said.
‘We have decided to call off our strike keeping in view of the inconvenience to the passengers all over the state, especially during festive season,’ Debasis Nayak, the spokesperson of [...]
Bangalore, Oct 4 (IANS) Flood-hit north Karnataka had some respite from heavy rains and further havoc Sunday even as the death toll mounted to 170, officials said here. The state has, meanwhile, intensified rescue and relief operations in the worst-hit districts.
‘There is respite from rains and further flooding in north Karnataka since the last 12 [...]
Bhubaneswar, Oct 4 (IANS) The private bus owners in Orissa have decided to go ahead with a statewide strike Sunday after marathon talks with the government failed to resolve their toll fee issue.
The bus owners’ association has been demanding the government to roll back the ‘exorbitant’ hike in toll fee on the national highways.
The government [...]
Bhubaneswar, Oct 4 (IANS) The private bus owners in Orissa have decided to go ahead with their statewide strike Friday after marathon talks with the government failed to resolve the toll fee issue.
The bus owners’ association has been demanding the government to roll back the ‘exorbitant’ hike in toll fee on the national highways.
The government [...]
Raipur, Oct 3 (IANS) A day-long nationwide strike called by Maoists passed off peacefully in Chhattisgarh Saturday but hit road and rail traffic hard in the trouble-torn Bastar region, where guerrillas blocked key roads, even as thousands of security personnel were deployed in the area and in the state capital.
Dozens of people were stranded at [...]
Raipur, Oct 3 (IANS) A daylong nationwide strike called by Maoists hit life in Chhattisgarh’s trouble-torn Bastar region Saturday as buses stopped plying and guerrillas blocked key roads even as thousands of security personnel were deployed in the area and in the state capital here.
Dozens of people were stranded at bus stands as no vehicles [...]
Shimla, Oct 2 (IANS) The central government has approved a road project costing Rs.5.49 billion for the four-laning of the Parwanoo-Solan National Highway 22 in Himachal Pradesh, state Public Works Minister Gulab Singh said Friday.
‘The central government Thursday gave green signal for four-laning of Parwanoo-Solan section of the national highway. For this, it has allocated [...]
Washington, Sep.12 (ANI): Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Kamal Nath has sought World Bank’s partnership for the development of highways in the country.
The Minister met the World Bank President, Robert Zoellick at Washington DC on Friday and sensitized him about the [...]
