Guwahati, July 11: The team sent by the Centre to assess flood damage in Assam today split into three groups and visited different affected districts, where the crop loss in the current wave has be

Bill envisages rehabilitation & resettlement of squatters if land they occupy is acquired; Infra ministries irked at this inclusion.

Ranchi, July 10: In a fillip to national highways in Jharkhand, the Union ministry of environment and forests today gave its final environmental clearance for widening an 80km stretch of NH-33 betw

The projects cut across the states of Rajasthan, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka

The government is likely to give nod for construction of 11 road projects worth about Rs 15,000 crore this week, a government official said. "Road Ministry has sent a proposal for building 11 highway projects to the Public-Private Partnership Approval Committee (PPPAC), may be all of them would be cleared," an official in the ministry said.

Ranchi, July 9: A crucial meeting scheduled at the Union ministry of environment & forests (MoEF), New Delhi, tomorrow will decide the fate of the ambitious over Rs 1,500-crore NH-33 four-lanin

The widening of NH-6 is slicing apart the central Indian forest landscape.

A raging controversy has erupted over land acquisition for the proposed widening of the Dehra Dun-Haridwar highway to four lanes on the Kuanwala stretch near here by the National Highways Authority of India with villagers blocking the road seeking enforcement of the national land acquisition norms and compensation as given in the case of a similar dispute in Noida, Uttar Pradesh.

“We don't object to parting with our lands for a national cause. But that does not mean we will let the authorities cheat us,” said residents of the area on Friday.

New Delhi: Poor economic conditions and volatile markets are now taking a toll on the highway sector, which had so far been an outlier in an economy where activity had slowed down considerably over

Shimla: The cash-strapped Shimla Municipal Corporation (MC) will have to wait for some more time before it starts getting revenue from the green tax which was to be imposed on all outside vehicles

New Delhi: The highways ministry now aims to award 9,000 km of national highways (NH) during this financial year. It has also set a target of constructing at least 12-13 km a day.

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