Highways Near Borders

The Centre has approved the development of the National Highway (NH)-15 - Trans Arunachal Highways (NH13 / NH 215) and Frontier Highways in Arunachal Pradesh to improve road connectivity in the frontier state near the border with China.

A live grenade was found on a national highway in Kangra's Bhadroa village near the Punjab border on Friday, the Himachal Pradesh Police said.

Centre notified amendments to environmental impact assessment rules, exempting highway projects related to defence and strategic importance within 100 km of the Line of Control and Line of Actual Control from requirement of environmental clearance.

About 3,000 mostly Central American migrants advanced slowly on Friday along a highway near Mexico's border with Guatemala.

Union ministers Rajnath Singh and Nitin Gadkari inaugurated an emergency landing strip at Satta-Gandhav stretch on National Highway 925 here on Thursday for Indian Air Force (IAF) planes.

China has completed the construction of a strategic highway through the Brahmaputra Canyon, stated to be the world's deepest, close to the Arunachal Pradesh border ahead of its plan to build a mega-dam over the gorge.

Police have registered two separate cases against farmers for allegedly raising concrete wall structure and digging a borewell on National Highway-44 in Haryana's Sonipat district, close to the Singhu border protest site.

Flapping and swaying tents have made way for more permanent structures. Air conditioners and coolers being set up indicate the approaching summer has been accounted for. At the many makeshift townships that have sprung up along Delhi's border points in the past three months or more, the crowd may be thinning, but not the resolve by the looks of it....

Home Minister Amit Shah met Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar this afternoon amid a nationwide hunger strike by farmer leaders as they step up protests against the new agricultural laws. With thousands of protesters camping near Delhi borders since late November, this is the second nationwide protest in less than a week after highways were ...

Thousands of farmers will take out a tractor rally to block the Delhi-Jaipur highway on Sunday, demonstrators protesting the centre's new agricultural laws said on Saturday, vowing to intensify their agitation despite a fresh message from Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the new legislations. Protesters will also hold a nationwide demonstration at a...

The Atal Tunnel in Rohtang, near Manali is now open for traffic. It is one of the longest highway tunnels in the world and it is at an altitude of over 10,000 feet. We tell you everything you need to know about the newly inaugurated Rohtang tunnel in Himachal Pradesh.

Violence erupted in the border town of Sendhwa in Madhya Pradesh on Thursday as thousands of migrant workers went on warpath, throwing stones after traffic was jammed on the National Highway 3.

China today opened a 409-kilometre-long expressway linking Tibet's provincial capital Lhasa with Nyingchi, which is close to the border with Arunachal Pradesh. The toll-free expressway has linked the two major cities which are also tourist attractions in Tibet, state-run Xinhua news agency reported

Over a thousand people have been stranded after the Rishikesh-Badrinath National Highway was closed on Friday near Vishnuprayag in Uttarakhand's Chamoli district because of a landslide, following which hundreds of pilgrims were feared stranded at Gopeshwar. The highway has remained closed near Vishnuprayag, one of the five confluences of the Alakna...

Seven policemen were killed in a Maoist attack in Koraput, near the Odisha-Andhra Pradesh border. The policemen were part of a convoy which was going from Koraput to Cuttack for training. The Maoists detonated an Improvised Explosive Device when the mini bus, carrying 12 policemen and a civilian, reached near Mogarguma village on the Sunki-Salur hi...

The Centre has approved the development of the National Highway (NH)-15 - Trans Arunachal Highways (NH13 / NH 215) and Frontier Highways in Arunachal Pradesh to improve road connectivity in the frontier state near the border with China.

A live grenade was found on a national highway in Kangra's Bhadroa village near the Punjab border on Friday, the Himachal Pradesh Police said.

Centre notified amendments to environmental impact assessment rules, exempting highway projects related to defence and strategic importance within 100 km of the Line of Control and Line of Actual Control from requirement of environmental clearance.

About 3,000 mostly Central American migrants advanced slowly on Friday along a highway near Mexico's border with Guatemala.

Union ministers Rajnath Singh and Nitin Gadkari inaugurated an emergency landing strip at Satta-Gandhav stretch on National Highway 925 here on Thursday for Indian Air Force (IAF) planes.

China has completed the construction of a strategic highway through the Brahmaputra Canyon, stated to be the world's deepest, close to the Arunachal Pradesh border ahead of its plan to build a mega-dam over the gorge.

Police have registered two separate cases against farmers for allegedly raising concrete wall structure and digging a borewell on National Highway-44 in Haryana's Sonipat district, close to the Singhu border protest site.

Flapping and swaying tents have made way for more permanent structures. Air conditioners and coolers being set up indicate the approaching summer has been accounted for. At the many makeshift townships that have sprung up along Delhi's border points in the past three months or more, the crowd may be thinning, but not the resolve by the looks of it....

Home Minister Amit Shah met Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar this afternoon amid a nationwide hunger strike by farmer leaders as they step up protests against the new agricultural laws. With thousands of protesters camping near Delhi borders since late November, this is the second nationwide protest in less than a week after highways were ...

Thousands of farmers will take out a tractor rally to block the Delhi-Jaipur highway on Sunday, demonstrators protesting the centre's new agricultural laws said on Saturday, vowing to intensify their agitation despite a fresh message from Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the new legislations. Protesters will also hold a nationwide demonstration at a...

The Atal Tunnel in Rohtang, near Manali is now open for traffic. It is one of the longest highway tunnels in the world and it is at an altitude of over 10,000 feet. We tell you everything you need to know about the newly inaugurated Rohtang tunnel in Himachal Pradesh.

Violence erupted in the border town of Sendhwa in Madhya Pradesh on Thursday as thousands of migrant workers went on warpath, throwing stones after traffic was jammed on the National Highway 3.

China today opened a 409-kilometre-long expressway linking Tibet's provincial capital Lhasa with Nyingchi, which is close to the border with Arunachal Pradesh. The toll-free expressway has linked the two major cities which are also tourist attractions in Tibet, state-run Xinhua news agency reported

Over a thousand people have been stranded after the Rishikesh-Badrinath National Highway was closed on Friday near Vishnuprayag in Uttarakhand's Chamoli district because of a landslide, following which hundreds of pilgrims were feared stranded at Gopeshwar. The highway has remained closed near Vishnuprayag, one of the five confluences of the Alakna...

Seven policemen were killed in a Maoist attack in Koraput, near the Odisha-Andhra Pradesh border. The policemen were part of a convoy which was going from Koraput to Cuttack for training. The Maoists detonated an Improvised Explosive Device when the mini bus, carrying 12 policemen and a civilian, reached near Mogarguma village on the Sunki-Salur hi...