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Road freight rates to cool off 10-12% following diesel price cut: IFTRT

The expected fall in truck rentals will be the first in five months

Gadkari favours raising speed limits on expressways to 140 km/hour

A Bill will soon be introduced in Parliament to revise the speed limits for vehicles for different categories of roads: Gadkari

Road length rises 17% to 6.39 mn km, registered vehicles 41% in 2015-19

The number of registered vehicles in India rose by 41 per cent to 296 million in 2019 from 210 million in 2015, according to the Road Transport and Highways ministry data

Delhi: Portion of road under IIT flyover caves in, traffic affected

A portion of a road under IIT-Delhi flyover caved in due to heavy rains in the last few days, affecting traffic in the area on Saturday, officials said

Portion of road in Delhi's Dwarka caves in amid heavy rains, car gets stuck

A portion of a road caved in Dwarka's Sector 18 due to heavy rains in the national capital and a traffic police constable's car got stuck there on Monday evening, officials said.

Downward re-rating triggers for infra sector as Covid-19 strikes again

Developers grappling with labour shortage and getting construction material to sites could be among a list of problems.

Gadkari lays foundation stone of Rs 8,341-cr road projects in Rajasthan

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari inaugurated and laid the foundation stone of Rs 8,341-crore highway projects in Rajasthan

Maharashtra govt brings out uniform development control rules

The new norm is likely to bring uniformity in width of roads, size of rooms, etc. Height of buildings would, however, vary depending on the plot size and its FSI potential

India to get $177 million loan from ADB for Maharashtra road improvements

The Asian Development Bank and the Indian government signed an agreement for $177 million loan to upgrade 450 kilometres of state highways and major district roads in the state of Maharashtra

Katra-Delhi express road to be completed by 2023: Minister Jitendra Singh

The work has started on the Katra-Delhi Express road corridor and once completed it will reduce the travel time between the two destinations to around six and half hours

Edelweiss Infra Yield Plus Fund acquires 2 road assets from Navayuga Group

With assets of over Rs 28,000 crore under management, Edelweisse focuses on providing long term growth capital to corporates

Liquidity infusion, e-project award top RoadMin revival plan after lockdown

The government will give thrust to the use of technology for speeding up project awards, so that the impact of time lapsed due to the coronavirus disease crisis can be minimised

NHAI slows down on giving data, makes analysis of projects tougher

Industry experts depend on NHAI's data on awards and execution to draw their projections.

How Purvideen Khera got its road

Who'd have imagined that a bunch of poor, illiterate women in a slum would be able to achieve this?

Govt collected Rs 577 cr through challans under Motor Vehicle Act: Gadkari

In a written reply, Gadkari said the number of fatalities in Kerala during September-October this year was 314

ADB to give $200 mn to upgrade rural roads in 34 districts of Maharashtra

An agreement in this regard was signed between the government and the ADB, the agency said

Completion of Bharatmala project to pare need of building highways: Gadkari

NHAI is looking at developing a system for capturing returns on appreciation in land value along developed national highways projects, said the Union Minister

Govt to offer 10-20% of national highway projects on BOT basis for bidding

The focus on BOT means the project mix in highway construction will change from what it was in the past few years, when BOT formed 2-3 per cent of the mix

Modi govt set to announce Rs 70,000-crore rural road building project

The govt is also drawing up an action plan before the Prime Minister's Independence Day speech on August 15 to connect all villages with roads irrespective of the number of people residing in them

5,759 km of national highways built till Nov, 58% of fiscal goal met: Govt

The Ministry has set a target of construction of 10,000 km of National Highways in the current fiscal 2018-19