SLUM dwellers facing the danger of eviction sent 100 telegrams to Union Minister for Environment and Forest Jairam Ramesh on Friday to cancel the clearance given by the ministry to the elevated Expressway from the port to Maduravoyal, running across the River Cooum.

IMPHAL, July 30

Praveen Kumar Singh

The Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has sanctioned Rs 145.72 crore for the construction of carriageways along nearly 89 kilometres of road on two major national highways, mainly in the districts of Kangra and Sirmaur.

Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal said he received a communication on this from Union Minister for Surface Transport Kamal Nath on Monday.

New Delhi: Work will soon begin to make the drive to Nainital or Corbett national park get off to a fast start. The road transport and highways ministry is starting work on eightlaning the 28km stretch of National Highway-24 from Ghaziabad border to Dasna near Hapur.

J. Venkatesan

New Delhi: Chief Justice of India S.H. Kapadia on Friday announced the setting up of an additional Forest Bench in the Supreme Court, to hear environment and mining-related cases.

The CJI said,

: Road transport and highways minister Kamal Nath has recently called the Planning Commission an armchair advisor, obviously stung by the commission

Irked by reports that the Planning Commission has predicted the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) will turn bankrupt, an agitated Union Transport Minister Kamal Nath on Thursday picked up his phone and complained to Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia.

The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday refused to grant stay on the Uttara Kannada district deputy commissioner

The total length of the under construction Four-lane Highway of the East-West Corridor in Assam is 670.65 km and the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) is implementing the project. This was stated by PWD Minister Ajanta Neog in the State Assembly today. She was replying to a question of Phani Bhusan Choudhury (AGP).