Roadways

Nineteen passengers were injured on Sunday when an Uttarakhand Roadways bus fell into a gorge while travelling from Mussoorie to Dehradun, police said. According to police, the accident occurred near the ITBP camp. The injured were pulled out of the 70-metre deep gorge and rushed to a hospital where the condition of three is said to be serious. The accident took place apparently after the brakes of the bus failed, police said. Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami expressed grief at the accident and asked officials to make all arrangements for the treatment of the injured.

Truck operators at two Adani group-owned cement plants at Bilaspur and Solan districts returned to work after 68 days of strike following an agreement over the freight rates. Truckers were on strike after the closure of two cement plants in Bilaspur and Solan by Adani group-owned ACC and Ambuja Cements. The deadlock between the cement company management and truck operators ended on Monday after both the management of the Adani cement plants (Barmana in Bilaspur and Darlaghat in Solan) and the representatives of the truck unions agreed to the new freight rate of Rs 10.30 per kilometre per tonne for single axle and Rs 9.30 per kilometre per tonne for multi-axle during a meeting held here chaired by Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu. Truck operators on Tuesday called the General House in Darlaghat to discuss the CM's announcement regarding freight rates. In this, a proposal was made regarding the new rate, which has been accepted unanimously. Hundreds of people from eight societies

PotHoleRaja has grown from small pothole-fixing drives to a dedicated network of volunteers and is working today with some of the biggest corporations and organisations in the country to build roads

Nitin Gadkari recently blamed poor planning as a major reason for road accidents in country

An MSRTC official said out of the total 93,226 employees of the corporation, 20,935 reported to duty

The Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation also managed to run more than 1,200 buses till evening

The strike of MSRTC employees who are seeking merger of the cash-strapped corporation with the state government continued on the 30th day

Maharashtra transport minister Anil Parab said a meeting with MSRTC employees' representatives was "positive"

Raut said he held discussion with Pawar on a range of issues, including politics and the ongoing MSRTC workers strike

The 6,943 employees comprised 4775 administrative staffers, 1725 workshop workers and 163 conductors

The workers were asked to join duty within 24 hours or face termination

The MSRTC on Thursday suspended more of its employees

The number of staffers who have been suspended so far rose to 918

The state government on Wednesday night invoked the Rajasthan Essential Services Maintenance Act

The Uttarakhand High Court urged central government to hold a meeting of the Chief Secretaries of Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh on September 15

However, private omni bus operators, who have been pressing for the bus fare to be doubled will stay off the roads

The roads there are in bad shape for many years. They turn muddy even in slight rain and it becomes extremely difficult to drive through or walk easily on them

State raise Rs 9,000 cr in loans for part-finance the initiatives

Slower project awarding and delayed receipt of 'appointment date' (on which projects are kicked off) from the NHAI are the main contributors to this decline

The NHAI plan to scrap projects stalled by tardy land acquisition would also help check escalation of costs