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IndiGo has cancelled 19 flights and 16 others have been delayed as crew members were stuck in a massive traffic jam at NH-8 due to anti-Citizenship Act protests on Thursday, a Delhi airport official said.

In view of severe fuel crisis in Tripura due to disruption of vehicular movement on damaged NH-8, state government has demanded dispatch of fuel by rail as it has come to the broad gauge map of the country following flagging off a train between Agartala and Delhi on Sunday.

Taking a cue from the Delhi government, Tripura has decided to introduce the "odd-even" system from Thursday in a bid to ration petrol and diesel due to extreme shortages.

Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari today asked ministry officials to send a technical team to the northeast region to restore Tripura's lifeline, National Highway-8, which has been badly damaged by rains of the past many weeks.

More than 4,500 trucks are now stranded on National Highway 8, which connects Tripura to the rest of the country, as heavy rains, mudslides and water-logging has turned a 20 km-stretch of the crucial road into slush.

Routine maintenance work on one of the busiest national highways, NH-8 connecting Mumbai and Ahmedabad, has led to an around 40-km-long traffic jam in the last three days, leaving over 20,000 vehicles trapped on the highway on Friday.

Two trucks collided with each other near Shankar Chowk flyover at Gurgaon expressway on National Highway-8 early today, leaving hundreds of motorists including office-goers trapped in a long traffic jam.

Traffic was thrown out-of-gear in several parts of the national capital, especially in south Delhi where commuters had a harrowing experience during and long after the morning peak hours today.

As many as three members of a family were killed and one was injured, after an over-speeding truck rammed into their car from the opposite direction at Alamgir village on NH-8 in Vadodara district, police sources said today.

10 people have been killed and 12 others are seriously injured after a chemical tanker exploded on the Delhi-Jaipur highway today. The number of dead could go higher as many of those injured are in hospital in critical condition.

If you've ever been in one of the two-lakh cars that pass through the Gurgaon-Delhi toll plaza on NH-8, you'll know just why it's the most hated part of the interstate commute.

Relatives of Geetanjali Garg, the wife of Gurgaon Chief Judicial Magistrate Ravneet Garg, today held a protest blocking the NH-8 demanding his suspension and arrest along with that of his relatives.

IndiGo has cancelled 19 flights and 16 others have been delayed as crew members were stuck in a massive traffic jam at NH-8 due to anti-Citizenship Act protests on Thursday, a Delhi airport official said.

In view of severe fuel crisis in Tripura due to disruption of vehicular movement on damaged NH-8, state government has demanded dispatch of fuel by rail as it has come to the broad gauge map of the country following flagging off a train between Agartala and Delhi on Sunday.

Taking a cue from the Delhi government, Tripura has decided to introduce the "odd-even" system from Thursday in a bid to ration petrol and diesel due to extreme shortages.

Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari today asked ministry officials to send a technical team to the northeast region to restore Tripura's lifeline, National Highway-8, which has been badly damaged by rains of the past many weeks.

More than 4,500 trucks are now stranded on National Highway 8, which connects Tripura to the rest of the country, as heavy rains, mudslides and water-logging has turned a 20 km-stretch of the crucial road into slush.

Routine maintenance work on one of the busiest national highways, NH-8 connecting Mumbai and Ahmedabad, has led to an around 40-km-long traffic jam in the last three days, leaving over 20,000 vehicles trapped on the highway on Friday.

Two trucks collided with each other near Shankar Chowk flyover at Gurgaon expressway on National Highway-8 early today, leaving hundreds of motorists including office-goers trapped in a long traffic jam.

Traffic was thrown out-of-gear in several parts of the national capital, especially in south Delhi where commuters had a harrowing experience during and long after the morning peak hours today.

As many as three members of a family were killed and one was injured, after an over-speeding truck rammed into their car from the opposite direction at Alamgir village on NH-8 in Vadodara district, police sources said today.

10 people have been killed and 12 others are seriously injured after a chemical tanker exploded on the Delhi-Jaipur highway today. The number of dead could go higher as many of those injured are in hospital in critical condition.

If you've ever been in one of the two-lakh cars that pass through the Gurgaon-Delhi toll plaza on NH-8, you'll know just why it's the most hated part of the interstate commute.

Relatives of Geetanjali Garg, the wife of Gurgaon Chief Judicial Magistrate Ravneet Garg, today held a protest blocking the NH-8 demanding his suspension and arrest along with that of his relatives.