• Engineers moved more than 10,000,000 cubic meters (cum) of earth in building the road; enough to build a wall three feet wide and 10 feet high, from New York to San Francisco

• They also dug 1,000,000 cum of gravel from river beds to surface the road; if loaded on rail cars the gravel train would be more than 600 kilometres long

Udaipur s waterbodies run dry, authorities run amok

The chaos on the roads is choking the growth of India's IT capital, Bangalore

The Hon

NIDHI JAMWAL looks at ways to utilise flyash, and so combat a polluting scourge

the Union ministry of rural development (m o rd) has recently issued fresh guidelines under the

A novel referendum by the Siliguri Municipal Corporation (smc) spelt doom for 122 trees. The civic body asked people to choose between the trees and traffic jams. In the voting, the roads won by a

for now, the construction of the controversial Dalhousie-Chamba highway has been stalled. Recently, the Union

Road through the Gir sanctuary opens up Pandora s box

Researchers at Newcastle Univer

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