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Monday, September 1, 2025
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Topic: Roads

Road networks in poll-bound West Bengal, Assam, Kerala get massive push in Budget 2021

The finance minister said West Bengal will see highway projects worth Rs 25,000 crore. Road projects worth Rs 3,400 crore will be undertaken in Assam and Rs 65,000 crore in Kerala.

3 PSU banks have Rs 9,922 cr of NPAs in roads sector. Delays, low toll collection blamed

The banks shared data with the parliamentary panel on transport, tourism and culture, which was looking at aspects of lending to the road sector.

Vodafone to NHAI to SBI to solar power — Why ‘cheapest’ mantra is creating havoc in India

Catering to the bottom of the pyramid with ‘cheap’ services has forced many businesses in India’s infrastructure sector to go belly up.

India to construct 44 strategic roads along borders with China and Pakistan

The Central Public Works Department has been asked to construct 44 "strategically important" roads along the India-China border to ensure quick mobilisation of troops in case of a conflict.

MLAs got Rs 3500 crore spent on bad rural roads, built by contractors of their caste

When MLAs and district collectors shared a surname, a contractor with the same surname was likely to be awarded a contract. These roads were more expensive to construct and sometimes not constructed at all.

On Camera

India has 30 days to pull off fast reform. Hold crash meeting of Centre & state

In India, we are accustomed to glacial change. We love appointing Committees to ‘look into’ reform. Unfortunately for us, the rest of the world moves fast.

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.