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PM Modi to open India’s longest rail-cum-road bridge Bogibeel
24 Dec 2018
The 4.9 km-long rod-cum-rail bridge on the Bramhaputra, between Tinsukia in Assam and Naharlagun town of Arunachal Pradesh, will reduce travel time by more than 10 hours
Modi, Putin discuss north-south transport corridor at Sochi summit
22 May 2018
The International North-South Transport Corridor is a 7,200-km-long multi-modal network of ship, rail, and road route for moving freight among India, Iran, Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia, Central Asia and Europe
Modi, Putin discuss north-south transport corridor at Sochi summit
22 May 2018
The International North-South Transport Corridor is a 7,200-km-long multi-modal network of ship, rail, and road route for moving freight among India, Iran, Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia, Central Asia and Europe
Modi launches India’s longest tunnel project at J&K’s Zojilla
21 May 2018
The 14-km-long Zojila tunnel will provide safe, all-weather connectivity to Jammu and Kashmir’s Srinagar, Kargil and Leh and cut down the time taken to cross the Zojila pass from three and a half hours to just 15 minutes
China now comes up with China-Nepal-India corridor
19 Apr 2018
Like the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor that passes through Kashmir, China is looking to build an economic corridor that passes through Nepal to India
Government to invest Rs100,000-cr in a new Delhi-Mumbai expressway
17 Apr 2018
Besides the Eastern and Western peripheral expressway projects, the government has taken up 10 projects for de-congestion the Delhi NCR, transport and shipping minister Nitin Gadkari said
Macquarie JV wins first toll-operate-transfer contract with Rs9,681.5-cr bid
01 Mar 2018
Macquarie’s winning bid is around 29 per cent higher than the second-highest bid placed by Canada’s Brookfield and exceeds National Highway Authority of India’s own expectation of Rs6,258 crore by one-and-a-half times
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