The ministry of road transport and highways, which has been successful in bringing land acquisition to levels needed to achieve 20-km-a-day target of road building, is, however, struggling to bring the acquired land under its possession and insulate itself from paying huge compensations to developers.

While, on paper, the ministry has managed to acquire 37,789 hectares of land for its national

Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group

Highway developers can now apply to the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to get pre-qualified for projects that will be bid during a year. The NHAI has invited applications for annual pre-qualification (RFAQ) from companies.

They can apply for pre-qualification as a single entity or as a consortium.

Traffic on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway disrupted due to landslide
Life came to a standstill after a moderate snowfall on the upper reaches and heavy rain across the Jammu region today.

The heavy rainfall in the region resulted in a flash flood.

BHUBANESWAR: The State Government will speed up land acquisition to expedite national highway (NH) projects.

The widening of the Kumarhatti-Nahan state highway under the World Bank will entail a huge environmental cost as 11,606 trees are being felled to widen the carriageway.
Under the project, the existing single lane of 72.73 km is being widened and strengthened at a cost of Rs 142.22 crore.

Dehradun: Over 200 people, including tourists, are stranded on national highways and border roads due to heavy snowfall in the higher reaches of Uttarakhand.

Despite impressive infrastructure, the city has struggled to cope with the surge in number of cars.
To ease the congestion, China plans a number of measures, including a cap on the number of licence plates being issued annually.

BEIJING: Authorities in China have come up with an unlikely solution to tackle this city's infamous traffic problems

Almost 10 years after work started on the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) project, one of the biggest highway networks in the country, the 754-km stretch on Delhi-Kolkata road is almost complete, except for a railway overbridge (ROB) at Tundla in Firozabad, which would be ready in March.

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