NHAI directs road contractors to adhere to MBCB guidelinesIn a statement issued Wednesday, the ministry of road transport and highways said the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has direc...
18 Dec, 2024, 07.56 PM IST
NHAI to tap capital market this monthGadkari said insurance funds and pension funds have shown interest in investing in India's road projects because there is economic viabilit...
15 Sep, 2022, 11.15 PM IST
Transport Ministry standardises international driving permit process“Currently, the format, size, pattern, colour etc. of the IDP being issued was differing across States in India. Due to this, many citizens...
29 Aug, 2022, 11.44 PM IST
Transport Ministry standardises process for issuing international driving permitThe ministry in a notification on Monday said the provision for QR code to link international driving permit (IDP) with the driving licence...
29 Aug, 2022, 01.40 PM IST
Govt makes PUC certificate for all vehicles uniform across countryAfter the changes in the Central Motor Vehicles Rules 1989 by the road ministry, the QR code shall be printed on the PUC form and will have...
17 Jun, 2021, 03.17 PM IST
Driving licences, vehicle registration certificates to come in card format onlyUnder the new norms notified by the ministry, states would have an option to issue the 2 documents in the form of cards, which would be eit...
07 Mar, 2019, 08.15 PM IST
Government moots 6-point formula to boost digital paymentsThe departments were told that saturating and bringing all merchants on board the Bhim-UPI QR platform is “a very imerportant activity”.
01 May, 2018, 10.26 AM IST
We hope to cross the 100-million user mark on UPI over next 2 years: NPCI CEOWhile on one hand, NPCI is on mission mode to take India towards a less-cash society, on the other, it has to manage the multiple stakehold...
26 Apr, 2018, 11.20 PM IST
Soon, you won’t have to stop at NH plazas to pay tollCommuters will soon have multiple options of paying user charges on national highways, including through their mobile phones linked to prep...
20 Apr, 2018, 11.41 AM IST
Payment companies Paytm, MobiKwik look to commuters to drive growthPaytm has partnered with a lot of major city bus services and so has MobiKwik, allying with entities such as Mumbai Metro, Gujarat State Ro...
11 Dec, 2017, 08.23 AM IST
Original4Sure secures $400,000 from clutch of investorsThe funds, to be used for tech and business development, were raised through the platforms Mumbai Angels and Let's Venture.
27 Oct, 2017, 01.26 PM IST
CBEC officials unhappy with Bengal's e-way bill"West Bengal is one of the two states in the country which has already introduced e-way bill. We have urged the state to keep the procedure...
23 Jul, 2017, 11.19 AM IST
We reported a CASA ratio of 17% after 4 months in operation: PN Vasudevan, Equitas Small FinanceQR code is a solution that we are working for very small merchants
17 Jul, 2017, 04.00 PM IST
GST: Government bets big on tech to ensure e-way bill does not bring back inspector rajUnder GST, the e-way bill is required to transport any good worth more than Rs 50,000. The industry fears that such a document will undermi...
14 Jul, 2017, 06.12 AM IST
Government-backed hackers are the real threat: TR Ramachandran, group country manager, India and South Asia, VisaIf cost was the major concern, we would never have such a huge share of business coming from nationalised banks such as SBI and Bank of Bar...
14 Jun, 2017, 01.43 AM IST
Mobikwik partners NHAI to allow users pay toll using m-walletThe scarcity of physical cash is expected to impact the smooth traffic at tolls after this date, given that masses are still struggling to ...
25 Nov, 2016, 07.27 PM IST
Roads ministry approves use of mobile wallets for toll collectionThe government has suspended toll collection on all national highways till December 2 midnight in the wake of cash crunch.
25 Nov, 2016, 04.04 PM IST