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 …
KOLKATA, April 2: After the state government rejected a proposal by the Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT) to acquire 2,500 acres of land for dumping dredged soil near Nandigram, the port authorities have urged the Centre to help them purchase land for the process. The KoPT recently sent a letter to …
New Delhi: In the run-up to the polls and just before the election code of conduct kicked in, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government cleared infrastructure projects worth Rs 5,220 crore in the last ten days of February. According to an official release, the public private partnership appraisal committee (PPPAC) …
New Delhi: The UPA Government is allocating Rs 1,000 crore for a complete overhaul of the road infrastructure network in the Naxal-infested areas of the country. The Government has decided to execute these projects under the Engineering Procurement Contract (EPC) mode after realising that the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model was …
PNS | New Delhi Following repeated complaints by World Bank and Asian Development Bank over serious delays in highway projects funded by these international agencies, Minister for Road Transport and Highways TR Baalu has pulled up National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and asked them to set monthly targets for …
Compensation for land acquired, two toll plazas and maintenance of roads to be discussed on Dec 16 Union Minister for Shipping, Road Transport and Highways T R Baalu inaugurated the four-lane Chandigarh-Ambala highway on Wednesday. Speaking on the occasion, he assured the ministers from Punjab and Haryana that all the …
No BOT Venture Awarded In 6 Months, Deadlines Extended Has economic meltdown hit the infrastructure sector in the country? Seems likely since in the last six months, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has failed to award a single BOT project. Bidding deadlines for all major projects, including Kundli- …
1,464 km of highways in the State would be developed TIRUCHI: An outlay of Rs. 9,880 crore is expected to be invested under the third phase of the National Highways Development Project (NHDP), Union Minister of Shipping, Road Transport and Highways T. R. Baalu said. Speaking after inaugurating the Padalur-Samayapuram …
With the completion of the Ambala Zirakpur four-laning project, the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) is all set to formally inaugurate the project on December 10. Union Minister for Shipping, Roads, Transport and Highway T R Baalu will throw open the project for which a toll plaza has been …
Fuel economy: turf war or guerrilla ambush It can get as bad as not having any money left to buy oil. Increased oil demand from rapidly growing cars can make it worse. Yet there is no sign of official agreement on who must take the lead to draft fuel economy …
The BJP pushed the Sethusamudram project it now rails against. Government records reveal just how DARSHAN DESAI WHEN THE Bharatiya Janata Party hits the campaign trail for Assembly elections in 10 states this year and the Lok Sabha poll in 2009, its brand image might come to rest on the …
The National Wildlife Action Plan was adopted in 2004. It entailed identifying ecologically fragile areas and wildlife corridors within 10 km of protected areas, and getting states to notify them as eco-fragile zones under the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986. But there was no progress in some states. In 2005, Goa …
This report is in addition to EPCA report no 15 on Assessment and prevention of gas leakage from CNG buses (July 2005). It takes into account the affidavit on behalf of the Transport Department GNCT of Delhi, October 2005 and Delhi Transport Corporation, October 2005. In addition, it reviews the …
