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.
Supriya Shrinate says 'Mangalyaan could have been sent at cost of constructing 2 km of Dwarka expressway', accuses Modi of 'remaining silent as scams unearthed under his nose'.
Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami, after meeting the cricketer at a Dehradun hospital, had said Pant told him that his car crashed while he was trying to avoid a pothole on the highway.
FM Sitharaman is likely to raise NHAI capex, but its borrowings from external sources will be curtailed. Highways asset monetisation's plans are on track.
In an interview to ThePrint, Road Secretary and NHAI chairman Giridhar Aramane said 700 charging stations will come up as part of wayside amenities on national highways.
The Union Minister also said that NHAI will rake in annual toll income to the tune of Rs 1.40 lakh crore in the next five years from the current level of Rs 40,000 crore.
The govt is auctioning national highway assets under two models — Toll Operate Transfer and Infrastructure Investment Funds — to monetise them. The 104 NHs span 26,700 km.
At an event Friday where both Uddhav Thackeray and Union Minister Nitin Gadkari were present, the chief minister said his government will not allow any obstacles in public work.
Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
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