In her Union Budget 2021-22 speech on Monday, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced that Rs 8,500 crore will be awarded by March 2022, for the completion of an additional 11,000 kms of National Highway Corridor.
At least three people were killed after seven vehicles including lorries and cars collided in Kerala.
Drive to a popular Dhaba in Murthal (Haryana) for a midnight snack turned fatal for four school friends from Rohini when their car met with an accident on the National Highway-44 connecting Delhi to Chandigarh. The accident once again highlights the risks involved on highway near the cluster of dhabas on highway near Sonipat. It also stresses the importance of safety guidelines and precautions to take.
A landslide occurred near Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) camp in Uttarakhand's Chamoli district.
Manali-Leh National Highway was reopened on May 19 for traffic by BRO. The Manali-Leh Highway is opened for only few months each year, it was closed in November last year.
The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) will resume toll collection on national highways from April 20, as per a government communication, a move which is being opposed by the transport fraternity.
An oil tanker rammed into a Gujarat state transport bus on National Highway 56 near Pokhran village on Monday, killing at least eight people.
The state and national highways, crisscrossing Kerala, will soon have thousands of toilet complexes, thanks to ambitious sanitation initiative drawn up by the Left government.
The protest called by locals and all political parties at the Khed Shivapur toll plaza on Pune-Satara Highway (NH4) on Sunday was suspended after the authorities agreed to exempt vehicles from Pune, Pimpri Chinchwad and areas along the road from paying toll there.
One elephant died and another was seriously injured after the two were hit by a speeding truck in Odisha's Dhenkanal district.
Four back to back explosions took place in Assam on Sunday morning as the country celebrated Republic Day. As per reports, three explosions took place within 30 minutes time span and the fourth was reported later. Three explosions took place in Dibrugarh while the fourth explosion took place in Charaideo.
Over 1500 vehicles, mostly Kashmir-bound trucks, are stranded in Ramban-Banihal sector which experienced fresh snowfall and heavy rains since the early hours.
The Jammu-Srinagar National Highway, the only all-weather road linking Kashmir with the rest of the country, was reopened for vehicular traffic on Thursday evening after remaining closed for four days following multiple landslides, officials said.
In what can be good news to lakh of commuters across country, the government has launched a special drive to make all the national highways free of speed breakers to ensure hassle-free movement of vehicles, especially at toll plazas.
With the effective implementation of FASTag on toll plazas and conversion of cash toll lanes to FASTag lanes, the speed breakers/ rumble strips constructed at toll plazas are being removed with immediate effect for smooth vehicular movement.
Srinagar-Leh national highway, Mughal Road, Bandipora-Gurez and Kupwara-Tangdhar-Karnah roads were closed on Wednesday morning following fresh snowfall at various places
The decision was taken as the speed limit for the stretch was wrongly written on a signboard put up by the Public Works Department.
A review meeting on highway works within Dakshina Kannada Lok Sabha constituency limits was held Sunday at the residence of Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari in Delhi, Nalin Kumar Kateel, MP, said here.
The chief minister said he informed Gadkari about the proposed Bhopal-Indore six-lane green field Expressway, which can be constructed either by National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) or the state government.
"It was decided that only stranded civilian vehicles will be allowed on the highway this Sunday in view of the road blockade over the past couple of days. There will be no movement of security convoys from either Srinagar or Jammu," a traffic department official said.
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