Traffic on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway remained disrupted for more than 12 hours due to landslides at four places between Udhampur and Ramban. Over 1,000 vehicles, including some buses and taxis, remained stranded there throughout the night.

Chamba: The National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) is currently spending nearly Rs 60 crore on construction and widening of roads, including bridges, besides environment management plans in Chamba district.

MUMBAI: State finance minister Dilip Walse-Patil has urged Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee to make available viability gap funding for the Worli-Haji Ali-Malabar Hill-Nariman Point sea link to augment transport facilities in the metropolis.

Fresh landslides blocked NH31 and NH31A at Sevoke today, disrupting traffic from Siliguri to Sikkim and the Dooars for more than 10 hours.

There were seven slides

If the railway network is being packaged by Mamata Banerjee as an engine for inclusive growth, Union Minister of Surface Transport and Highways Kamal Nath is looking at highways through the same prism to promise an unprecedented upgrade at the rate of building 20 km per day, a ten-fold jump over the rate achieved in the last UPA government.

LUCKNOW: Launched with great fanfare, the ambitious Rs 50,000 crore Ganga Expressway project has put the Mayawati government in a no-win situation. While the project has so far remained a non-starter, the ruling BSP has had a bitter taste of its fiasco. The party has virtually faced a near rout in 17 districts proposed to be connected by this mega project.

Ranchi, June 30: National highways passing through Maoist dominated corridors of Jharkhand are set to get a major facelift, courtesy a Rs 750-crore plan approved by the Union ministry of road transport and highways.

Pune: One person was killed and seven others, including two children, were injured following a landslide near Khandala ghat section of the Mumbai-Pune Expressway in the wee hours of Monday.

The mishap took place near Adoshi tunnel, a part of Baur village ghat section, some 52 kms from Pune.

New Delhi: Road transport and highways ministry has designed a draft model concession agreement (MCA) for the four-laning of national highways on build-operate-transfer (BOT) annuity mode. The move comes on the back of claims by ministry officials that the current MCA governing national highways needs to be tweaked for BOT annuity projects even as it is suitable for BOT toll projects.

Only four days are left for the Centre to take a final decision on executing the Hazaribagh-Ranchi four-lane project worth over Rs 600 crore, even as its bids were decided on February 27.