The driver lost control of the vehicle while passing through a culvert and the bus fell into the 30-feet deep well.
While inaugurating the projects, Modi said highways construction has reached 27-km a day from mere 12-km a day during the Congress regime.
He also dismissed the possibility of a fractured mandate and claimed the party will get more seats than the last Lok Sabha polls.
The streets of Chennai were gripped with tension and panic as news of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa's conviction in the 18-year-old disproportionate assets case spread.
Those that are developing quadricycles from scratch say it will take them at least two years to roll them out.
In addition to CPI workers, activists of Congress, YSR Congress and other Opposition parties, who extended support to the bandh, held rallies and other forms of protest at different places in the state.
While the number of active COVID-19 cases stood at 6,039, as many as 515 people have been cured and discharged, and one had migrated, it said. The total number of cases include 71 foreign nationals.
The high court order meant that government can start from Thursday the process of recalibration of e-meters of autos and taxis in Mumbai and its metropolitan region.
The death toll in the Mahad bridge collapse incident has reached 28 after navy divers on August 14 found the wreckage of a washed away SUV and recovered two bodies trapped inside it on August 14.
Unlike Panda, Singh dresses normally to office, but after hours, he wears long robes blessing followers at his house.
A rescue and relief team was rushed to the accident site to shift the injured to hospitals and extricate the bodies of the victims, they said.
Roads account for the second largest amount of bad loans.
The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has been under attack for delays in completion of its road projects as well as for poor corridor management.
With this, the death count in the August 2 night tragedy has gone up to 28, while 12 people are still missing.
The Centre and state governments bonded and then fell apart during the longest lockdown walk.
Road ministry identified bike-sharing, carpooling and e-rickshaws as ways to deal with rising pollution in major cities.
The six-laning of Vadodara-Mumbai section of National Highway No 8 will be taken up at an estimated cost of about Rs 3200 crores (Rs 32 billion), Minister of State for Road Transport K H Muniyappa said in Vadodara on Monday.
Traffic hurdles for travellers between Delhi and Agra may be a thing of past after the implementation of a proposal to construct a signal-free elevated highway on the route at a cost of Rs 267 crore (Rs 2.67 billion).
buses, taxis, trucks and commercial vehicles stayed off the road in response to the strike sponsored by the Left-dominated Motor Vehicle Workers Co-ordination Committee.
The newspaper said efforts are being made to incite caste violence in the state by exploiting the clashes which took place at Bhima-Koregaon on January 1.
Former Indian football captain Chandeshwar Prasad is trying hard to get his dues paid by the government.
The regional manager of Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation, Capt V V Ratnaparkhi, has been suspended for his alleged involvement in a recruitment scam, financial irregularities and misuse of official vehicles.
The bus, which was on its way from Kishtwar to Doda town, skidded off the road and fell down into Chenab river.
Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Telangana have announced a lockdown of educational institutions, malls and other places that attract people in large numbers, even as some of them have been reporting increase in positive cases.
Court documents show that the Kerala government, whose case was treated as the 'lead case' among all the petitions filed against Adani, made four allegations to convince the court to cancel the contract for the Thiruvanathapuram airport. The state's legal team couldn't substantiate most of these allegations with documentary proof and its self-defeating arguments in court failed to convince the judges to cancel the contract given to Adani. The battle for the Thiruvananthapuram airport between the Communist-led Kerala government, the Adani group and the Modi government over the past year hasn't had a dull moment since the proceedings began. Claims of a smoking gun turned out to be a damp squib, says Sai Manish.
International rating agency Standard & Poor's on Thursday lauded India's competitiveness in information technology, business process outsourcing and telecom sectors
The Goa unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday announced that it will observe the birthday of Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar in a simple manner in Panaji on Sunday.
The Golden Quadrilateral Road Project, launched in 2000-01 by the National Democratic Alliance government, would be completed by end of December as only five per cent of the work remains to be completed.
While the most obvious beneficiary of this roll-out will be manufacturers of FASTags, or the Radio Frequency Identification chips, a PwC report says implementation of a pan-India electronic toll collection system on national highways may help save approximately Rs 87,000 crore annually.
Move to accelerate investments; Japan to have a share in corpus
These notes can be used at government hospitals, railway ticketing, public transport, airline ticketing at airports, milk booths, crematoria/burial grounds, petrol pumps, metro rail tickets, purchase of medicines on doctor prescription from the government and private pharmacies, LPG gas cylinders, railway catering, electricity and water bills and ASI monument entry tickets. Highway toll has been scrapped till November 14.
The Indian side, led by Road Transport Joint Secretary Alok Rawat, suggested during the talks that passengers travelling on the proposed service be made to carry entry permits along with passports.
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