Highway
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New 6-lane highway to cut travel time between Noida-Delhi, UP, Haryana, Delhi-Mumbai expressway
India | May 16, 2023, 04:11 PM ISTThis highway will serve as a primary route for traffic flow between Delhi, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh, and will improve the connectivity of North/East Delhi with Noida and Ghaziabad, the Union Minister informed.
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Toll tax hike: Highway and expressway rates hiked; effective from April 1
Technology | Apr 01, 2023, 12:35 PM ISTTolls on India’s main highways are set to climb by more than 10% on average beginning April 1. The largest increase will be 18% on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway.
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'World's first' 200-meter bamboo crash barrier installed on Maharashtra highway
Maharashtra | Mar 04, 2023, 04:51 PM ISTCalling it a 'remarkable achievement' for the country and its bamboo sector, Gadkari said this crash barrier offers a perfect alternative to steel and addresses environmental concerns.
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IRB Infra bags Rs 2,132 crore Samakhiyali-Santalpur highway project in Gujarat
Business | Feb 21, 2023, 05:31 PM ISTThe Mumbai-based company said that upon award of this project, its order book will stand at Rs 20,892 crores (excluding GST), of which, the construction order book will be at Rs 9,714 crores.
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Pune highway pileup: 48 vehicles damaged after truck loses control, 8 hospitalised; CM orders probe
India | Nov 21, 2022, 11:54 AM ISTPune highway pileup: At least 10 to 15 people had received minor injuries while 6 to 8 people had to be shifted to a hospital for treatment, a police official said.
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Govt conducting pilot projects to replace toll plazas with automatic number plate recognition system
Business | Sep 13, 2022, 06:46 PM ISTGadkari said that the government is now looking at two options -- a satellite-based toll system where the GPS will be there in a car and the toll will be directly subtracted from the passenger's bank account and the other option through number plates.
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Delhi-Amritsar-Katra highway: Start construction on fast-track, says Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann
India | Jul 18, 2022, 07:47 PM ISTPunjab News: CM Bhagwant Mann said the 254-km long Delhi-Katra highway will be constructed at a cost Rs 11,510 crore and will pass through nine districts of the state -- Jalandhar, Sangrur, Malerkotla, Patiala, Kapurthala, Ludhiana, Amritsar, Tarn Taran and Gurdaspur.
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Govt planning electric highway between Delhi, Mumbai: Gadkari
India | Jul 12, 2022, 06:23 AM ISTAddressing an event organised by the Hydraulic Trailer Owners Association, the road transport and highways minister said the government is constructing tunnels worth Rs 2.5 lakh crore.
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Caught on cam: Truck bursts into flames after speeding car rams into it on US highway
World | Apr 14, 2022, 04:39 PM ISTThe impact of the collision was so devastating that the truck's driver couldn't control it and ramped onto the roadside fencing which casued a massive fire and within moments the truck was engulfed in flames.
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Jammu-Srinagar highway reopens after 30 hours
India | Oct 24, 2021, 11:44 PM ISTOver 500 stranded vehicles, mostly trucks, have been cleared from Jammu to Srinagar after the road was cleared of the debris.
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Nitin Gadkari reviews construction of Zojila, Z-Morh tunnels on Srinagar-Leh highway | Photos
India | Sep 28, 2021, 11:03 PM ISTSpeaking to reporters at the Z-Morh tunnel site, Union Minister Gadkari said his ministry is also building 20 tunnels of a total length of 32 km in Jammu and Kashmir and 11 tunnels of a total length of 20 km in Ladakh.
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India to have world's longest expressway by March 2022: Nitin Gadkari
India | Sep 18, 2021, 07:46 AM ISTThe expressway will connect the urban centres of Delhi through the Delhi-Faridabad-Sohna section of the corridor along with a spur to Jewar Airport and Jawaharlal Nehru Port to Mumbai.
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Boulders roll down, block Manali-Leh highway in HP's Lahaul-Spiti district
India | Aug 15, 2021, 01:22 PM ISTState Disaster Management Director Sudesh Kumar Mokhta said according to the information received from the Lahaul-Spiti District Emergency Operation Centre, boulders came down near Killing Sarai in Lahaul valley, blocking the Manali-Leh national highway-3.
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Landslide blocks Jammu-Srinagar highway
India | Jun 11, 2021, 12:59 PM ISTThe strategic Jammu-Srinagar national highway was blocked on Friday by a massive landslide in the Ramban district.
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Srinagar-Leh highway reopens for traffic after two months
India | Feb 28, 2021, 07:32 PM ISTThe highway was thrown open for traffic after remaining closed for 58 days due to snowfall, a Border Roads Organisation (BRO) spokesman said.
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Landslide, falling of trees on Coonoor-Ooty Road, traffic hit
India | Feb 21, 2021, 02:37 PM ISTHeavy rain triggered landslide and uprooting of trees on the Coonoor-Ooty road paralysing vehicular traffic since early Sunday.
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Alia Bhatt celebrates 7 years of Highway; recreates scene on Patakha Guddi
Celebrities | Feb 21, 2021, 12:01 PM ISTImtiaz Ali directorial Highway completes 7 years of its release today. Alia Bhatt on Sunday shared a candid video on her Instagram Stories with the song Patakha Guddi playing in the background. She captioned it, "celebrating 7 years of highway..."
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13 highways to be built in north Karnataka: Gadkari
India | Jan 16, 2021, 01:04 PM ISTA total of 13 national highways covering 847 km would be built in north Karnataka at a cost of Rs 21,000 crore, Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Friday.
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Two dead in road accident on Lucknow-Bahraich highway
India | Dec 31, 2020, 01:42 PM ISTTwo people were killed in a collision between a tractor-trolley and a truck on the Lucknow- Bahraich highway here, police said on Thursday.
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PM Modi to inaugurate widened 6-lane highway, attend Dev Deepawali in Varanasi on Monday
India | Nov 28, 2020, 11:07 PM ISTPrime Minister Narendra Modi will visit his parliamentary constituency Varanasi on Monday to inaugurate a six-lane stretch of the national highway between the city and Prayagraj, and will also attend Dev Deepawali there.