Suvendu Adhikari inaugurates the Kolkata Couture Expo on Thursday Kolkata: Bengal govt will hand over land parcels to at least 25 industries within a month, chief minister Suvendu Adhikari announced on Thursday, adding that a land-purchase policy for industries with single-window clearance for investments will be launched soon. “Bengal will become financially strong in the…
Bengaluru: With heavy rain in Kerala and Kodagu filling the Kabini and Harangi reservoirs and easing the immediate pressure over releasing Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu, Karnataka govt has turned its focus back to the long-pending Mekedatu balancing reservoir project, chief minister DK Shivakumar’s flagship initiative that he championed through a high-profile padayatra in 2022.The…
Encroachments, roadside commercial activity and illegal parking have narrowed the GT Road stretch between Lal Kuan and Dadri Ghaziabad: National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) will build a 12km elevated road to decongest the GT Road stretch between Lal Kuan and Dadri.The six-lane road, which is to begin near the Delhi-Meerut Expressway and NH-9 junction…
The 33-km project will extend from Harsaru bypass on Gurgaon-Pataudi Road at Wazirpur (NH-352W) to Jhajjar (NH-352) Gurgaon: National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has prepared three alignments for a proposed six-lane highway connecting Gurgaon and Jhajjar, with the final route to be decided by its alignment approval committee. The 33-km corridor, announced by the…
Chennai-Bengaluru Expressway Chennai: The 263.4km Chennai-Bengaluru expressway is stuck in litigation over a 25-km stretch falling within Tamil Nadu. Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh have already made giant strides in construction of the highway in their respective territories.The 25km stretch from Arakkonam to Kancheepuram of the six-lane NE-7 has seen a mere 50% progress with the…
Varanasi: Heavy traffic load, especially of vehicles carrying pilgrims, will ease on Varanasi roads in a couple of years as Prime Minister Narendra Modi has gifted two elevlated roads worth Rs 25,000 crore to his constituency.A meeting of cabinet committee on economic affairs, chaired by PM Modi in New Delhi, gave its approval to a…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi waters a sapling during his visit to HPCL Refinery, at Pachpadra, in Balotra on Saturday. Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri and Rajasthan Governor Haribhau Kisanrao Bagde also present Pachpadra: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday pitched for a cooperative approach to interstate water sharing, asserting that political…
Kolkata: Larsen & Toubro (L&T) plans to invest more than Rs 4,500 crore in Bengal over the next few years, with chairman S N Subrahmanyan expected to meet CM Suvendu Adhikari next month to discuss a series of investment proposals.Dip Kishore Sen, adviser to the L&T chairman and managing director, told TOI that Subrahmanyan is…
The improvement was driven largely by non-fare revenue, which jumped to Rs 16.16 crore from Rs 6.42 crore last year Gurgaon: Nearly 81 lakh passengers travelled on the Rapid Metro network during the first five months of this year, a 9.4% increase from the corresponding period last year, an HMRTC official said on Monday.The figures…
President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the visit to Rairangpur, Mayurbhanj district on Saturday Bhubaneswar: At Pahadpur, President Droupadi Murmu’s village in the tribal heartland of Mayurbhanj district, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday announced a Rs 47,600 crore development push, positioning Odisha at the heart of Centre’s ‘Purvodaya’ drive.Sharing the dais…
