Ghaziabad/Greater Noida: After the recent clash on NH-24 between the police and agitated locals, it was the turn of hundreds of farmers who took to the streets near Jaitpur village in Greater Noida protesting against the construction of the Ghaziabad-Greater Noida Expressway.

BHUBANESWAR: Three World Bank-assisted infrastructure projects worth over Rs 400 crore have remained a non-starter even after a year of awarding of contracts due to lack of cooperation from the Government.

The World Bank sanctioned loan for widening and strengthening of three roads under the Orissa State Road Project. Tenders were invited for the three projects in January 2008.

New Delhi: The government, keen to kickstart the stalled road programme, has drawn up plans to unroll an ambitious network of expressways to boost connectivity across key states over next few years.

BHUBANESWAR: The Vijayawada-Ranchi National Highway passing through 13 tribal dominated districts of the State will be completed by 2014.

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today reviewed the progress of different road and bridge projects at a high level meeting.

Out of the 1,219 km long highway, 983 kilometre falls in Orissa and will be constructed by the State Government.

THE road transport and highways ministry is seeking a loan of $2.96 billion from the World Bank to develop 5,937 kms of highways, cutting across 14 states in the country. The proposed loan would cover 70% of the project cost, while the rest would come from the government.

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The Punjab government has resolved to develop the existing Mohali-Ropar Balachaur-Nawanshahr-Phagwara road into an expressway and not to go ahead

Aug. 25: The mythological Kalpavriksha, known as Baobab tree, may face extinction in the state because of the extension of NH-9 from Hyderabad to Vijayawada.
According to botanists, there are only eight such trees in the state mostly distributed in Krishna district along the highway. All the trees are several hundreds of years old.

Samba : The construction of a flyover at Vijaypur is stuck due to its