Narsinghpur, Feb 23 (IANS) A tragic road accident claimed three lives in Narsinghpur district of Madhya Pradesh on Monday. A pick-up truck carrying labourers overturned, resulting in three deaths and severe injuries to seven others. The incident took place around 11 am in the Barman police station area, along the National Highway. According to police officials, all the victims were daily wage labourers residing in Surla Khapa village of neighbouring Chhindwara district. They were travelli…
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Shillong, Feb 19 (IANS) Meghalaya Deputy Chief Minister, Prestone Tynsong, on Thursday stated that land compensation amounting to more than Rs 268 crore has been processed and disbursed for National Highway construction projects in North Garo Hills and East Garo Hills districts. Replying to a question in the State Assembly, Tynsong said compensation has been paid to a total of 2,414 beneficiaries across the two districts.In North Garo Hills, 187 beneficiaries have received compensation amounting…
Amaravati, Feb 18 (IANS) The suspect in the rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl had escaped from police custody, police said, adding that his body was found in a lake in Andhra Pradesh’s Annamayya district on Wednesday. Kulavardhan (30) was found dead in a lake in Kanasanipalli village Kuralabalakota mandal.District Superintendent of Police K. Dheeraj told media persons that the accused escaped when he was being taken in a police vehicle on Tuesday. The DSP said the police launched a hunt f…
Amaravati, Feb 18 (IANS) The body of the suspect in the rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl was found in a lake in Andhra Pradesh’s Annamayya district on Wednesday, police said.Kulavardhan (30) found dead in a lake in Kanasanipalli village Kuralabalakota mandal.The locals found the body and alerted police. The body was shifted to government hospital in Madanapalle town for post-mortem examination.Kulavardhan is suspected to have died by suicide. Police registered a case and took up investig…
New Delhi, Feb 14 (IANS) Residents in Assam’s Moran expressed pride and amazement on Saturday after the inauguration of the Emergency Landing Facility (ELF) on the Moran Bypass, calling the development a historic and unimaginable achievement for the region.Sharing their reactions after the inauguration, locals said the project had exceeded all expectations. One resident said, “We had never even imagined in our dreams that today the Prime Minister of the country would accomplish such a great ta…
New Delhi, Feb 12 (IANS) Marking a first in bolstering the combat preparedness in the North-East, the Indian Air Force (IAF) is set to operationalise new emergency landing facility on a four-lane highway in Moran in Assam’s Dibrugarh on Saturday, officials said on Thursday. The 4.2-km stretch of the National Highway has been developed as the emergency landing facility and is situated close to the Line of Actual Control (LAC), giving the IAF strategic leverage and flexibility to augment its opera…
Guwahati, Feb 10 (IANS) Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday said that the Dibrugarh-Moran stretch of the National Highway has been developed not only for civilian vehicular movement but also to serve as an Emergency Landing Facility (ELF) capable of accommodating frontline fighter jets and transporting aircraft of the Indian Air Force during exigencies. In a post on X, Sarma said Prime Minister Narendra Modi would formally activate the Emergency Landing Facility on February 14, u…
New Delhi, Feb 6 (IANS) The government on Friday said that FASTag Annual Pass has crossed 50 lakh users, with over 26.55 crore transactions recorded within six months of its launch. Around 28 per cent of total car transactions recorded on the National Highway (NH) network are now being carried out through the FASTag Annual Pass, said the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways, highlighting the increasing preference of FASTag Annual Pass among National Highway users.The region-wise analysis sh…
New Delhi, Jan 29 (IANS) As the World Bank ranks India among the top 5 countries globally in terms of private investment in infrastructure among low- and middle-income economies, infrastructure continues to be central to India’s growth strategy, with public capital expenditure following a sustained upward trajectory since FY15, the Economic Survey 2025-26 stated on Thursday.According to the Survey, this has been made possible by the institutionalisation of multimodal planning through PM GatiSh…
Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 29 (IANS) State Finance Minister K.N. Balagopal on Thursday presented the sixth consecutive Budget of the LDF government in the Kerala Assembly, placing strong emphasis on welfare spending, infrastructure development and resistance to what he described as sustained fiscal neglect by the Centre.The Vijayan government has gone ahead with a full budget even as the Assembly elections are scheduled this year, and as per the convention, a vote-on-account budget is presented.Ope…