The Jammu-Srinagar National Highway was closed for traffic Thursday due to a landslide in Ramban district that left over 1800 vehicles stranded, an official said.
Supreme Court has refused to entertain a plea of Jammu and Kashmir government that challenged restriction of movement imposed on the National Highway.
The highway connects the state's Ladakh region with the Kashmir Valley through the Zojila Pass situated at 11,575 feet above sea-level.
There was a more than five-km long traffic jam on the Jaipur to Delhi route on National Highway 48 due to ban on entry of heavy commercial traffic into Delhi by the National Green Tribunal.
For the past month or so, activists of these organisations have been objecting to names of places in Hindi and English being put on top on signboards relegating Punjabi at the bottom.
All toll plazas in national highways will now receive payments through credit or debit cards and e-wallet besides accepting old currency notes of Rs 500 till December 15.
The toll collection on national highways across the country, which was halted in the wake of withdrawal of high-value notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1000, will resume from the mid-night of December 2.
No toll tax on National Highways till November 14: Government
The length of national highways is slated to double from 95,000 km to 2,00,000 km, as part of India's infrastructural reforms, Minister of Road Transport, Highways and Shipping Nitin Gadkari said on Friday.
New Delhi: To ensure quicker connectivity, the government plans to build 1,000 km of expressways at an investment of Rs 16,680 crore under its NHDP programme, which include the Vadodara-Mumbai project. “The central government has
New Delhi: Traffic was thrown out-of-gear in areas around National Highway 8 this morning as hundreds of cab drivers blocked both carriage ways near the Rajokri toll booth in southwest Delhi on the key road
Jammu: The entire length of the 300-km Jammu-Srinagar National Highway would be barred to general traffic on November 7 when Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Jammu and Kashmir, an official said on Wednesday.Going all out
Akola: Union Minister Nitin Gadkari laid foundation stone for the four-laning of the Akola-Murtizaur section on National Highway 6.Gadkari, who laid the foundation yesterday, assured all round development of west Vidharbha region in Maharashtra comprising
Jammu : The Jammu-Srinagar National Highway, which remained closed due to landslides triggered by heavy rains, has reopened for traffic and all the stranded vehicles have been cleared.The landslides at Ramsoo stretch had blocked the
Jammu: The Jammu-Srinagar National Highway , which was closed due to landslides, was reopened for one-way traffic today.The highway, the only all-weather surface link connecting Kashmir Valley with the rest of the country, was closed
Jammu: The Jammu-Srinagar National Highway remained closed for traffic for the third day today due to fresh landslides triggered by heavy rains, leaving over 500 Kashmir-bound passengers stranded. Authorities have not allowed any fresh movement
Itanagar: Arunachal Pradesh has urged the Centre to approve the proposed 2,000-km road from Tawang to Vijaynagar to provide connectivity to the border areas along the MacMohan line by declaring it as National Highway. State
Gurgaon: Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari, has approved the Haryana government's demand to have another national highway connecting Haryana to Rajasthan.Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, while addressing the farmers at the
New Delhi: Rajya Sabha MP and cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar today wrote a letter to Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis highlighting grievances being faced by common citizens over toll tax.He urged the Chief Minister to
Jammu: The Jammu-Srinagar National Highway remained closed for the tenth consecutive day today due to landslides and sinking of road at various places, with hundreds of vehicles stranded on the route.The traffic was suspended on
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