National Highway 50

The Union Cabinet on Friday approved eight important national High-Speed Road Corridor Projects of length 936 km entailing a total cost of Rs 50,655 crore.

A stretch about 50 metres long on the Rishikesh-Badrinath National Highway near Pursari village is showing signs of land subsidence with cracks appearing on it.

The accident took place on National Highway 50 after her Toyota Innova crashed into a loaded truck. The minister and her driver suffered minor injuries in the incident and were provided first-aid.

A truck driver died and 50 passengers, including children, were injured when a roadways bus collided head-on with the heavy goods vehicle near a hotel on the Jind-Rohtak national highway here, police said on Saturday.

Mr Gadkari said that his aim is to achieve 50 per cent reduction in road accident deaths and zero accidents and deaths by 2030.

Farmers Chakka Jam: A thoroughly fortified national capital largely remained peaceful on a day agitating farmers had called for a nationwide chakka jam protest for three hours, even though they did leave Delhi out of it in the first place along with Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. Today's protest came 10 days after the unprecedented vi...

Heavy rain and flooding led to the closure of National Highway 4 and left hundreds of trucks carrying potatoes and other vegetables stranded some 50 km outside Kolhapur city in Maharashtra

Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari laid the foundation stone for development of a six-lane corridor in Delhi today and said road projects worth Rs 50,000 crore have been sanctioned for the national capital, which will improve the air pollution level.

Fifty people were injured when a bus overturned and fell into a ditch on Delhi-Haridwar national highway at Haredi bypass today morning, police said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated two key expressways today, one to cut down on travel time from Meerut to Delhi, the other to help reduce pollution in the national capital. But his address at Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh, next door to Kairana where assembly elections will be held today, touched upon what are seen as the key election issues. The R...

Union Water Resources Minister Nitin Gadkari spoke to NDTV's Vikram Chandra on road building projects initiated by the Centre. The minister also revealed his plans on the Bharatmala programme. Bharatmala programme is the biggest ever road building programme after National Highways Development Project (NHDP) that saw development of about 50,000 km o...

At least 48 people were killed and several injured after a massive landslide buried two government buses in Himachal Pradesh's Mandi district, officials said on Sunday. The number of people killed could rise as over 50 passengers were travelling in the two buses hit by the landslide at Kotpuri near Padhar on the Mandi-Pathankot national highway in ...

The next time you are on national highway anywhere in the country and have to wait for a long then three minutes to clear a toll; do not pay it. While that may seem too good to be true to the millions of commuters, it certainly is true and in fact approved by the law.

Around 50 cow vigilantes targeted officials of the Tamil Nadu government transporting cows from Jaisalmer to their state, pelted stones at a truck and blocked National Highway 15 on suspicion of cattle smuggling in Rajasthan's Barmer district, police said today.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today announced a compensation of Rs 2 lakhs from Prime Minister's National Relief Fund or PMNRF for the next of kin of those killed in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly road accident. He also said that Rs 50,000 will be given to those seriously injured in the accident. Last night, 22 people were reportedly killed and 19 injured...

The Union Cabinet on Friday approved eight important national High-Speed Road Corridor Projects of length 936 km entailing a total cost of Rs 50,655 crore.

A stretch about 50 metres long on the Rishikesh-Badrinath National Highway near Pursari village is showing signs of land subsidence with cracks appearing on it.

The accident took place on National Highway 50 after her Toyota Innova crashed into a loaded truck. The minister and her driver suffered minor injuries in the incident and were provided first-aid.

A truck driver died and 50 passengers, including children, were injured when a roadways bus collided head-on with the heavy goods vehicle near a hotel on the Jind-Rohtak national highway here, police said on Saturday.

Mr Gadkari said that his aim is to achieve 50 per cent reduction in road accident deaths and zero accidents and deaths by 2030.

Farmers Chakka Jam: A thoroughly fortified national capital largely remained peaceful on a day agitating farmers had called for a nationwide chakka jam protest for three hours, even though they did leave Delhi out of it in the first place along with Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. Today's protest came 10 days after the unprecedented vi...

Heavy rain and flooding led to the closure of National Highway 4 and left hundreds of trucks carrying potatoes and other vegetables stranded some 50 km outside Kolhapur city in Maharashtra

Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari laid the foundation stone for development of a six-lane corridor in Delhi today and said road projects worth Rs 50,000 crore have been sanctioned for the national capital, which will improve the air pollution level.

Fifty people were injured when a bus overturned and fell into a ditch on Delhi-Haridwar national highway at Haredi bypass today morning, police said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated two key expressways today, one to cut down on travel time from Meerut to Delhi, the other to help reduce pollution in the national capital. But his address at Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh, next door to Kairana where assembly elections will be held today, touched upon what are seen as the key election issues. The R...

Union Water Resources Minister Nitin Gadkari spoke to NDTV's Vikram Chandra on road building projects initiated by the Centre. The minister also revealed his plans on the Bharatmala programme. Bharatmala programme is the biggest ever road building programme after National Highways Development Project (NHDP) that saw development of about 50,000 km o...

At least 48 people were killed and several injured after a massive landslide buried two government buses in Himachal Pradesh's Mandi district, officials said on Sunday. The number of people killed could rise as over 50 passengers were travelling in the two buses hit by the landslide at Kotpuri near Padhar on the Mandi-Pathankot national highway in ...

The next time you are on national highway anywhere in the country and have to wait for a long then three minutes to clear a toll; do not pay it. While that may seem too good to be true to the millions of commuters, it certainly is true and in fact approved by the law.

Around 50 cow vigilantes targeted officials of the Tamil Nadu government transporting cows from Jaisalmer to their state, pelted stones at a truck and blocked National Highway 15 on suspicion of cattle smuggling in Rajasthan's Barmer district, police said today.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today announced a compensation of Rs 2 lakhs from Prime Minister's National Relief Fund or PMNRF for the next of kin of those killed in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly road accident. He also said that Rs 50,000 will be given to those seriously injured in the accident. Last night, 22 people were reportedly killed and 19 injured...