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RAMPUR: A 40-year-old man, driver with the Uttar Pradesh power department, was killed in a road accident on the Nainital Highway in the Ganj Kotwali area of Rampur on Sunday evening after a truck loaded with wooden scrap toppled onto the vehicle, crushing it completely.The incident occurred at around 4.45 pm near the Pahadi Gate…
Villagers staging a sit-in protest at R K Pet state highway CHENNAI: Tension prevailed at Karlambakkam Colony near Pallipattu in Tiruvallur district on Saturday after two residents died and more than 10 others were hospitalised with symptoms of vomiting and diarrhoea. Angry residents suspect that they died after consuming contaminated drinking water supplied to the…
SRINAGAR: J&K police have arrested the driver of a car allegedly involved in a highway crash in Ramban district that killed CBI prosecutor Sheikh Adil Nabi, 35, officials said Saturday.Nabi was critically injured Thursday when his Alto K-10 was hit from behind by a speeding Scorpio near Banihal on Srinagar–Jammu NH. He was taken to…
Car crash in Japan after collision of 2 trucks (Video/X@volcaholic1) A massive crash on Japan’s Kan-etsu Expressway killed one person and injured 26 as the country began its end-of-year holiday season, officials said.The Gunma Prefectural Highway Police said the pileup began late Friday in Minakami, about 160 km northwest of Tokyo. It started when two…
BHOPAL: On a forested stretch of Bhopal-Jabalpur national highway, the National Highways Authority of India has introduced what it describes as India’s first integrated “wildlife-safe” road corridor, combining speed-calming design, fencing, animal underpasses and electronic monitoring on a section of NH-45 that cuts through a critical tiger habitat in MP. The features, on a 12km…
A Chennai-bound bus in Tamil Nadu’s Cuddalore district veered off the road and collided with two cars after a tyre burst, resulting in nine fatalities and at least 10 injuries CHENNAI : Nine people, including four women, were killed and at least 10 injured in Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu on Wednesday evening.It happened after…
The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has received regulatory approval from the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) to register Raajmarg Infra Investment Trust (RIIT) as a Public Infrastructure Investment Trust (InvIT), paving the way for wider public participation in national highway assets. In a statement issued on Wednesday, NHAI said the Public…
Survivor of 2016 NH gang rape (Representative image) BULANDSHAHR: Ahead of sentencing in the brutal gang rape of a woman and her daughter at gunpoint on NH-91 in Uttar Pradesh in 2016 which shocked the nation, one of the survivors – then a school girl of 14 and now a woman of 23 studying law…
The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH), which oversees the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), is implementing safety-focused designs that also safeguard ecosystems as the country’s highway network continues to grow. The latest highway stretch in question is the one in Madhya Pradesh that has been able to do just that, and balance…
New Delhi: Highway commuters won’t have to stop to pay user fee at national highway toll plazas by 2026-end as the govt rolls out the multi-lane free flow (MLFF) system, road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari said on Wednesday. He added that the FASTag annual pass launched in Aug, which allows private vehicles to…
