Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton Canal nearly choked due to garbage dumping appearing in the DT Next dated 11.05.2025". The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton …
As western auto markets shrink due to environmental concerns coupled with financial tightening and long-term worries about fuel supply, India has witnessed a decade-long steep sales growth rates in all categories of vehicles. The promise of a rapidly growing automobile market has brought every global auto manufacturer of significance to …
Praveen Kumar Singh New Delhi: Three weeks after the environment ministry communicated India's voluntary commitment to reduce carbon emission by 20-25% of gross domestic product by year 2020 to UNFCCC, the road transport and highways ministry has adopted an active stance on this front. It has initiated the groundwork to …
New Delhi: By the end of this month, all National Highways (NH) across India will be renumbered, which the government claims will more scientific than now. So, the popular NH-8 connecting Delhi and Mumbai will be renumbered as NH-48 and similarly, the Kolkata-Delhi highway, which is presently NH-2, will become …
Road transport and highways minister Kamal Nath has finally proposed an alternative route that circumvents the Pench Tiger Reserve to complete the North-South corridor. Earlier, his ministry had suggested widening an existing 18-metre road passing through the reserve, but this was opposed by the environment ministry because it endangered the …
Roads and transport minister Kamal Nath issued an ultimatum to state public works departments (PWD) today, declaring that states must facilitate land acquisition for road construction and utilise previously appropriated funds, otherwise delayed projects would be foreclosed while new ones would become increasingly difficult to procure. Following a meeting with …
The Government is all set to give a new fillip to the road transport and highways sector in the Union Budget 2010-11. It is planning to increase allocation of NHAI for National Highways Development Programme (NHDP) by 20-25 per cent and give special emphasis on projects related to road safety, …
Road transport and highways minister Kamal Nath has asked his ministry to draft bidding documents for mega projects in such a manner that they did not exclude top domestic players from the bidding process. The direction follows objections raised by some major domestic infrastructure players over the ministry's plan to …
The road transport and highways ministry is drafting stringent bidding norms for mega-highway projects that could possibly leave even large Indian players out of the fray. This is in sharp contrast to what the ministry has argued so far with the Planning Commission with regard to the bidding document
In a prelude to creating a national expressways authority on the lines of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), road transport and highways minister Kamal Nath has already set a time table of works that the agency would implement. In a report drafted by the ministry, the minister has …
Sharmistha Mukherjee / New Delhi January 5, 2010, 0:12 IST The Ministry of Shipping is nearly doubling the initial cost estimates of the controversial Sethusamudram Ship Channel Project, which aims to dredge a navigable channel through the Palk Strait between India and Sri Lanka.
For decades, the narrow bridge on Ganga near Kanpur has been a bottleneck on National Highway 25, connecting Lucknow with Jhansi and other places in central India. However, the daily ordeal of motorists is likely to end soon as a parallel, wider bridge will be thrown open to the public …
NOT impressed by the ambitious plans announced by road transport and highways minister Kamal Nath, the Planning Commission has advised the ministry to fix a
Non-Availability Of Fuel Can Upset April Plan New Delhi: Will the new emission norms miss the April 2010 deadline? Automobile industry body Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (Siam) is upset over the non-assurance by oil companies on supply of requisite-quality fuel and has requested the government to look at delaying …
The Copenhagen spirit seems to have caught up with the Indian Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE). While the nations discuss emission reductions at the international summit, the BEE has come up with its own unique proposal
India has made a strong pitch for a World Bank loan of US $2.97 billion for upgradation of single and intermediate lane of National Highways with Road Transport Minister Kamal Nath briefing World Bank chief Robert B Zoellick here on Wednesday. A World Bank team would visit India next month …
New Delhi: India may soon get a $3 billion (about Rs 14,000 crore) loan from the World Bank for building roads in the country, road and highways minister Kamal Nath said on Wednesday.
Terming the reported move of the Government to go ahead with the bypass near Kaziranga National Park, the Conversion of National Highway -37 to 4-lane Demand Committee today termed it as
New Delhi: To attract global infrastructure majors in the highway projects, National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) will soon float six ultra mega projects, each of 600 km or more. The each $1 billion project will be on offer in one and-a-half months, according to road, transport and highways minister …
