Roads
PM Modi to open India’s longest rail-cum-road bridge Bogibeel
24 Dec 2018
The 4.9 km-long rod-cum-rail bridge on the Bramhaputra, between Tinsukia in Assam and Naharlagun town of Arunachal Pradesh, will reduce travel time by more than 10 hours
Modi, Putin discuss north-south transport corridor at Sochi summit
22 May 2018
The International North-South Transport Corridor is a 7,200-km-long multi-modal network of ship, rail, and road route for moving freight among India, Iran, Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia, Central Asia and Europe
Modi launches India’s longest tunnel project at J&K’s Zojilla
21 May 2018
The 14-km-long Zojila tunnel will provide safe, all-weather connectivity to Jammu and Kashmir’s Srinagar, Kargil and Leh and cut down the time taken to cross the Zojila pass from three and a half hours to just 15 minutes
China now comes up with China-Nepal-India corridor
19 Apr 2018
Like the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor that passes through Kashmir, China is looking to build an economic corridor that passes through Nepal to India
Government to invest Rs100,000-cr in a new Delhi-Mumbai expressway
17 Apr 2018
Besides the Eastern and Western peripheral expressway projects, the government has taken up 10 projects for de-congestion the Delhi NCR, transport and shipping minister Nitin Gadkari said
Macquarie JV wins first toll-operate-transfer contract with Rs9,681.5-cr bid
01 Mar 2018
Macquarie’s winning bid is around 29 per cent higher than the second-highest bid placed by Canada’s Brookfield and exceeds National Highway Authority of India’s own expectation of Rs6,258 crore by one-and-a-half times
Eye on China! Tunnel to be constructed under Sela Pass in Arunachal Pradesh: Arun Jaitley
01 Feb 2018
In India, subtle corruption robs villagers of roads
15 Jan 2018
Giving local politicians no formal role in Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, which was intended as a measure to fight corruption, may be having the opposite effect
Cabinet clears 14-km two-lane tunnel at Zojila pass
04 Jan 2018
The tunnel, to be built at an estimated cost of Rs6,808 crore, would provide all weather connectivity to Srinagar, Kargil and Leh in Jammu and Kashmir
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