Agartala, July 12: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will prepare a vision document for the appropriate management and use of national highways for better connectivity in the mountainous northeastern region, a party leader said here today.

Satish Shile, Karwar, July 5, DHNS:

The heavy traffic of iron ore-laden trucks plying on the two national highways of Karwar district has taken lives and limbs of many people.

Praveen Kumar Singh

New Delhi: Get ready to drive on

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The government has postponed the Environmental Public Hearing by the Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) in view of the proposed widening of NH-17 until the exact details of the project are made available.

K P Sai Kiran

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The controversy surrounding the night-time traffic ban along the 13-km stretch of the National Highway 212 running through the Bandipur National Park in Karnataka, is getting more vexed with the National Tiger Conservation Authority joining the issue.

Shimla: Environmentalists fear that cutting of slopes for four-laning of the Shimla-Parwanoo section of the National Highway-22 will destabilise the fragile mountain ranges, making the stretch prone to landslides.

The government may have to curtail Kamal Nath

Malda, June 15: The widening of NH34 in Malda district has been stopped after villagers protested the acquisition of land by the National Highways Authority of India.

The Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways sanctioned five new national highways for Himachal on Tuesday. The highways will be upgraded out of the existing routes. The ministry also agreed to fund the 1.7-kilometre Swarghat tunnel project on the Chandigarh-Manali road.