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Wednesday, September 3, 2025
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Topic: Highways

‘Unacceptable to charge toll with safety, traffic issues’—House panel bats for new road tariff authority

Pulling up road ministry, parliamentary panel pushed for rationalisation of toll collection on any highway stretch, and its reduction post recovery of capital & routine maintenance costs.

Infra projects worth over Rs 1 lakh cr completed or under way—Gadkari on Delhi decongestion plan

In an interview with ThePrint, Minister of Road Transport & Highways outlines his 3-point agenda & talks about Panipat-Delhi airport connection that'll cut travel time to under 30 mins.

3 killed, 12 injured as truck crashes into multiple vehicles on old Pune-Mumbai highway

A 10-yr-old girl and her father were among those confirmed dead, said Lonavla police. The incident took place at 10.20 pm, Sunday at Battery Hill near Bor Ghat.

Nearly 700 highway projects delayed, 35% due to land acquisition disputes, says parliamentary panel

Parliamentary panel tabled its report on Demands for Grants (2025-26) of MoRTH in Rajya Sabha. It recommended that project approvals be finalised before contracts are awarded.

Mumbai-Pune travel time may become 30 mins shorter, come August. What’s the ‘missing link’ project

Currently, it takes over three hours to travel from Mumbai to Pune, especially due to traffic congestion at the Lonavala ghat section.

460 road deaths every day—10 Indian states have come up with safety models. It’s working

India has ambitiously pledged to halve road crash deaths by 2030. The question is not if we can tackle this crisis, but how swiftly we can act.

Ministry of Road Transport & Highways launches app to combat highway encroachments

App enables users to report unauthorized parking, ribbon development, and other encroachments on National Highways.

200 Telangana buses plying highways were fitted with AI-based alert devices. Accidents down 40% in 1 yr

Pilot project was initiated in 2022 as part of Telangana govt’s attempts to reduce accidents on highways. Telangana among states with highest number of accidents, fatalities on highways.

India-Myanmar-Thailand highway — final piece of the puzzle in New Delhi’s Atlantic to Pacific push

India is to construct about 200 km of the trilateral highway. At least 30% of total construction remains in various stages of completion owing to the security situation in Myanmar.

Govt unlikely to meet highway award target for FY24, working on new strategy for high-speed corridors

Govt working to develop access-controlled high-speed corridors as part of Vision 2047, which will be the next phase of highway development after Bharatmala Pariyojana programme.

On Camera

Chinese memes, videos & commentaries say Modi overshadowed other leaders at SCO

On Douyin, many videos highlighted how Modi was all smiles during his China visit. Others focused on his handholding with Putin and Trump’s supposed irritation.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.