Move comes after meeting chaired by Nitin Gadkari this month. Project directors & regional officers to be held accountable for the maintenance of the national highway stretch assigned to them.
The Bharat New Car Assessment Programme is a voluntary measure for car manufacturers to evaluate safety features in their vehicles. The programme will be rolled out on 1 October.
CAG has flagged cost of Rs 250 crore per km for Dwarka Expressway, up from Rs 18.2 crore per km approved by Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs. Road ministry claims '12% savings'.
IIT Delhi study published on 31 January shows between 2017 and 2019, for same distance travelled, 20.8 cyclist deaths were reported annually, compared to 9.5 motorcyclists & 0.53 car occupants.
Ministry of Road, Transport and Highways’s latest ad on cars needing six airbags is timely after Cyrus Mistry’s death. But someone should’ve checked the script.
The govt has admitted to the design of roads often being faulty. It is now aiming to take actions to improve curves on highways and identify black spots.
A proposal by Ministry for Road, Transport and Highways also called for an exemption on the payment of a registration mark in battery-operated vehicles.
Highways ministry built 13,298 km in 2020-21, up from 10,237 km in 2019-20. However, road construction has not crossed Gadkari's 2017 target of 40 km/day.
The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.
With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
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