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TopicZojila tunnel

Topic: Zojila tunnel

Expected next year: 3 strategic tunnels in J&K to boost security & connectivity, cut travel time

Khellani, KM 83 & Z-Morh tunnels will help in ensuring J&K's round-the-year connectivity with rest of India. Currently, NHIDCL is undertaking six projects worth Rs 18,539 crore.

Work begins on Srinagar-Leh Zojila tunnel 15 years after project was first conceived

Highways minister Nitin Gadkari initiated virtual ‘ceremonial blast’ of the tunnel Thursday. Once complete, it will provide year-round connectivity between Srinagar and Leh.

After 6 years & 5 failed bids, the Srinagar-Leh Zojila tunnel remains on drawing board

The sixth and latest bidding process for the 14.3-km Zojila tunnel was annulled on 7 August by Modi govt over ‘administrative reasons’. 

Debt-ridden IL&FS terminates contract to build India’s longest tunnel in J&K

PM Modi had laid the foundation stone for the Zojila tunnel on the Srinagar-Leh Highway in June 2018, but the project has been stalled since November.

Crisis in IL&FS threatens to derail India’s longest tunnel project in Jammu & Kashmir

Work has come to standstill on the Zojila tunnel due to IL&FS’s troubles, which has also hit the Z-Morh tunnel in the region.

On Camera

Rajnath Singh is discovering India-Pakistan civilisational ties

Even as India, Pakistan have seemed on the edge of war, their intelligence services have often sought to find space to de-escalate tensions and reduce risks for the two countries.

Chhattisgarh pitches state as hub for ‘specialty steel’, nets investment plans of Rs 6,321 crore

Speaking at 2nd Investor Connect, CM Vishnu Deo Sai says 'we have been able to attract a lot of investors.' The focus of the event was the steel sector. 

Asim Munir set to take charge as overall commander of Pakistan military, most powerful Army chief ever

In largest overhaul of military command in 5 decades, Field Marshal Asim Munir set to assume post of Chief of Defence Forces tomorrow, as Army claims primacy in Pakistan armed forces.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.