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Tuesday, September 2, 2025
TopicNHAI

Topic: NHAI

Modi govt built 1.5 km of highway per day in Northeast, up from 0.6 km per day by UPA

Modi govt built 2,731 km of national highways across 8 northeastern states in 2014-19 as compared to 1,079.25 km that UPA managed from 2009-14.

NHAI’s soaring debt poses hurdle to Modi’s $5 trillion GDP goal

Restricting road-building risks imperilling Modi’s target to make India a $5 trillion economy as roads are necessary for socio-economic development.

Should NHAI stop road construction? PMO asks Gadkari’s ministry to respond

The suggestion was communicated in a letter by PM Modi’s Principal Secy Nripendra Misra to highways secy Sanjeev Ranjan, dated 17 August.

Modi govt ‘risks’ National Small Savings Fund by using it to support struggling PSUs

Loans from NSSF to PSUs have risen 500% since 2016-17, though some can’t repay them. Critics say this is govt’s way of keeping fiscal deficit in control.

Modi govt to nudge drivers to go digital at toll plazas — or wait in endless cash line

From December, govt plans to restrict cash payments to one lane at each toll plaza, keeping others reserved for vehicles equipped with ‘FASTags’.

Nitin Gadkari ticks off national infra fund over delay, says many others ready to fund govt

At an NIIF event to sign an MoU with NHAI, Nitin Gadkari says highways sector is economically viable but time is biggest capital.

How NHAI built a Delhi flyover in 4.5 months, with a little help from Parrikar

The new flyover from Parade Road to Dhaula Kuan stands in direct contrast to the nearby RTR flyover, which has faced numerous delays since November 2014.

15,000 deaths in five years due to pothole accidents is alarming, says Supreme Court

This indicates that authorities concerned are not maintaining the roads properly, a bench headed by Justice Madan B Lokur said.

India’s national highways have ‘black spots’ and they are dangerous

National Highways Authority of India has identified 506 ‘black spots’ — stretches that have become notorious for accidents.

Judges who uphold equality in court shouldn’t be asking for separate lanes at toll plazas

Why should judges and other so-called VIPs not wait in line at toll plazas just like everyone else?

On Camera

Road building is a money-making racket in India. And we have a very short memory

We get very angry when rain disrupts our lives and brings our cities to a halt, but by the time the elections come around, we have forgotten how angry we were.

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.