Hearing NHAI's challenge to Kerala HC order last week, the top court underscored that statutory rights to collect tolls could not be divorced from performance of statutory duties.
Pulling up road ministry, parliamentary panel pushed for rationalisation of toll collection on any highway stretch, and its reduction post recovery of capital & routine maintenance costs.
In letter to BMC official, Sena (UBT)'s Aaditya Thackeray says 'highways maintained by BMC but toll goes to Maharashtra govt'. MNS has highlighted issue of toll collection across state too.
The fee collection guidelines are still based on NH Fee Rules 1997. It's time to revisit these outdated fee rules and modify them to meet the current expectations, writes V. Subramanian.
Toll charges & receipts have been used previously for many feel-good hoaxes, like the one that claimed you do not need to pay toll for a 12-hr journey.
Cheeni Kum challenged many conventions. It didn’t shy away from addressing concerns of a man in his sixties, from ‘keeping up’ with his much younger partner.
New CPI series will take 2024 as base year, will provide more accurate measure of inflation, spending on digital services. Expected to enhance representation and reliability, says Saurabh Garg.
The agreement, signed after meeting between Rajnath and US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on sidelines of ADMM-Plus in Kuala Lumpur, aims to deepen bilateral ties in the critical sector.
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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