Chandigarh: With heavy rain exposing weaknesses in civic infrastructure, incidents of road cave-ins are becoming increasingly common across the city. In the latest case, a portion of the dividing road between Sectors 33 and 45 has caved in, posing a potential risk to motorists and pedestrians. A portion of the dividing road between Sectors 33…
Potholes on the roads (Chandigarh – tricity story pics) Mohali: Given the potholed and waterlogged roads of Mohali, one might think it has been pouring for weeks. But no, the heavy infrastructure damage is the result of barely one hour of rainfall – twice in the last 48 hours – that too when the rainy…
The cave-in occurred at the spot where GMDA is constructing a stormwater drainage culvert beneath NH-8 using trenchless technology Gurgaon: A section of Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway caved in at Narsingpur on Tuesday evening after heavy rain, forcing closure of two lanes on the carriageway towards Jaipur and causing tailbacks during rush hour.The cave-in occurred at the…
A moving tanker got stuck in a caved inn road in Dindoli area in Surat Surat: Every spell of monsoon rain is exposing the city’s crumbling infrastructure, with freshly repaired roads caving in one after another and crores of taxpayers’ money sinking into the ground.The latest embarrassment came on Thursday when a moving tanker got…
Ludhiana: While the season’s first spell of rainfall brought much-needed relief from the heat in Ludhiana, it also exposed persistent infrastructure problems. Residents in many localities complained of roads caving in and getting damaged besides disrupted traffic after the overnight rainfall on Wednesday.Among the worst-hit areas was Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar, where residents reported road…
Bhubaneswar/Cuttack: Continuous rainfall in twin cities on Thursday led to waterlogging, traffic congestion and disruption of daily activities across several low-lying areas. Commuters and pedestrians were seen wading through knee-deep water in some stretches, while waterlogged roads slowed down vehicular movement and caused long traffic snarls during peak hours. Several roads remained submerged for hours,…
Road collapse at Saggu Chowk in Ludhiana Ludhiana: Political bickering over a trenchless sewer project has left motorists driving over dangerous subterranean voids.Three years ago, the municipal corporation proposed this system to replace the city’s failing, century-old brick drainage network. The ₹154-crore plan specifically targeted the highly vulnerable DMC Road stretch from Saggu Chowk to…
Bus got trapped in a damaged road in Pandesara area in Surat. Few passengers in the bus also suffered injuries. The bus also got damaged badly with its windshield falling on road soon after the fell into the damaged road. Surat: Two separate incidents of city buses getting stuck on Surat roads on Monday raised…
Big pothole at Hathroj peethawas Jaipur: A road cave-in in Hathroj Peethwas Sunday once again raised concerns among residents, who said a similar incident occurred at the same spot three years ago. The road collapsed around 5 am, creating a crater that grew from about 7 feet in length to nearly 30 feet by the…
Sharad ChandraDhanbad: A major stretch of the rural road connecting Gopalganj and Benagoria in Nirsa caved in on Friday, allegedly due to continuous blasting activities at the Chapapur Open Cast Project (OCP). The incident disrupted transportation in the area and triggered strong protests from local residents, who subsequently forced the suspension of mining operations at…
