Sharing the dais with the Union Minister, the NCP President said often nothing happens after the stone-laying ceremony, but work progresses swiftly with Gadkari’s projects.
Union minister Nitin Gadkari said he had asked automakers Bajaj and TVS companies to introduce flex engines in their vehicles, after which they came up with ethanol-flex engines.
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.
According to the ministry's statement, the know-how of the indigenously developed saline gargle RT-PCR technique has been transferred on a non-exclusive basis for commercialisation.
The NHAI took nearly 19 months to construct the emergency landing strip on Satta-Gandhav stretch on NH-925 in Rajasthan's Barmer that was inaugurated Thursday.
A Hercules C-130J plane, carrying the Union ministers & CDS Bipin Rawat, conducted a mock emergency landing on NH-925 in Barmar, India's first national highway used for this purpose.
Both ministers will Thursday land on a 3.5-km strip on the national highway in Barmer, Rajasthan. This will be the first such landing on a national highway.
Consumers will have a choice between petrol & bioethanol. The switch to alternative is due to the surplus production of crops in India, from which bioethanol is made, Gadkari said.
Canada faces serious foreign interference issues, but these challenges must not be weaponized to unfairly target friendly and important allies like India.
In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.
The decorated Naga officer from Manipur also served as envoy to Myanmar & Nagaland chief secy. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated a museum dedicated to the Tawang hero Thursday.
While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.
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