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Supreme Court hearing on plea seeking highway clearing amid farmers protest

The Supreme Court will on Monday hear a petition seeking directions to immediately clear the blockage of national and state highways in Punjab, where farmers have been protesting for almost a year to demand a legal guarantee for the Minimum Support Price among other issues. The plea, which will be heard by a Supreme Court bench headed by Justice Surya …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Busted: Bundy collaborator fueled FEMA conspiracy in Hurricane Helene aftermath

Raw Story

Only 30 minutes after billionaire Elon Musk began publicly accusing the federal government of blocking his company from delivering the satellite internet components to the disaster zone in western North Carolina, another extraordinary claim popped up on X. “NC State Police issue statement that they will start arresting any federal employees trying to hinder rescue operations,” an Arizona man named …

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5 months, 1 week ago

California Highway Patrol presence in East Bay will increase four-fold starting next week

LA Times

Gavin Newsom is cracking down on organized crime, sideshows and carjackings in the East Bay. Gavin Newsom said Thursday that he will be quadrupling the number of shifts of California Highway Patrol officers to Oakland and will deploy prosecutors from the California National Guard starting Monday to target organized crime, carjackings and sideshows. The announcement comes five months after initially …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

NGT seeks nature of 111km road linking Ghaziabad to Uttarakhand border

Hindustan Times

Ghaziabad: In the light of a suo motu cognisance taken by the National Green Tribunal regarding proposed felling of over 112,000 trees/plants alongside the proposed 111km Upper Ganga Canal road project, the tribunal has given three weeks’ time to the responding agencies to ascertain the nature of this road. The cognisance of the issue was taken on February 1 on …

Districts Land Uttarakhand Forest Tribunal State Report

9 months, 1 week ago

Mahadevappa seeks to set the record straight on contribution of UPA-2 to State’s road infrastructure

The Hindu

Minister for Social Welfare H.C. Mahadevappa, who is also the Minister in charge of Mysuru district, sought to set the record straight on the contribution of Congress-led United Progressive Alliance – 2 to improving the road infrastructure in the State. At a function in Mysuru on Sunday in which Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari launched a …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Karnataka expects revised EV policy to attract ₹50,000 crore investments

The Hindu

In a bid to create a robust electric vehicles ecosystem in Karnataka, the Karnataka government on Friday unveiled a revised draft EV policy, which aims to attract ₹50,000 crore investment while creating job opportunities for one lakh people. “This proposed policy aims to transform Karnataka into a pioneering force in the field of electric mobility, embracing sustainable practices and equitable …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Shimla-Chandigarh national highway blocked after landslide

India Today

A landslide blocked the national highway connecting Shimla to Chandigarh in Himachal Pradesh's Solan district on Wednesday morning, leaving many vehicles stranded, officials said. Light vehicles coming from Chandigarh have been routed through Parwanoo-Kasauli-Jangushu Road Kumarhatti while other vehicles going from Solan would take Bhognagar-Banasarq. The Shimla Police has routed traffic going from Shimla to Chandigarh via Theog-Sainj-Giripul-Oachghat- Kumarhatti-Sarahan-Kala Amb-Panchkula …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Armed man who tried to 'breach' FBI office in Ohio killed in standoff with US police

ABC

An armed man who attempted to breach the FBI building in Cincinnati, Ohio, and later exchanged gunfire with law enforcement officers has died of his injuries, according to an Ohio State Highway Patrol official. Key points: Officials said the man had "attempted to breach" the visitor's screening area at the FBI office The man was chased onto Interstate 71 and …

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3 years ago

Centre Considered Highway Projects Worth Rs 60K Cr in UP Since 2018, Half of Them This Poll-Bound Year

News 18

Not just the expressways, the Centre has considered highway projects worth over Rs 60,000 crore in Uttar Pradesh since 2018, with proposals worth nearly half that amount considered in just this poll-bound year. The data shows that the quantum of proposals and approvals have accelerated since 2020 and projects worth Rs 28,700 crore were submitted to the Centre just in …

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3 years ago

$9 Billion Houston Highway Project Sparks Debate Over Racial Equity

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING HOUSTON — A $9 billion highway widening project being proposed in the Houston area could become an important test of the Biden administration’s commitment to addressing what it has said is a history of racial inequity with infrastructure projects in the U.S. “We’re going to spend all this money to make the traffic worse and hurt a …

Transportation Infrastructure Projects Houston Harris County State Highway Txdot Highway Project

3 years, 6 months ago

Highway heists, bribe allegations, leadership battles: BJP’s Kerala challenges