Four Indian Army personnel killed in road accident while travelling from West Bengal to SikkimFour Indian Army personnel lost their lives in a road accident while traveling from Pedong to Zuluk along the Silk Route in Pakyong Distric...
05 Sep, 2024, 05.15 PM IST
Central team visits flood-hit Sikkim; over 350 stranded tourists rescuedAn inter-ministerial central team has begun visiting Sikkim, which was hit by a flash flood that resulted in at least 70 deaths and left 80...
09 Oct, 2023, 10.35 PM IST
Rajnath Singh inaugurates 90 BRO infrastructure projectsThe projects were inaugurated by the Raksha Mantri at an event in Jammu. These include Nechiphu Tunnel in Arunachal Pradesh; two airfields ...
12 Sep, 2023, 08.44 PM IST
16 Army jawans killed in road accident in North SikkimDefence Minister Rajnath Singh said he is "deeply pained" over the loss of lives of the personnel. "The nation is deeply grateful for their...
23 Dec, 2022, 04.43 PM IST
Indian researchers working on early landslide detection systems to reduce fatalities, damageSeveral groups of researchers in the country are working upon solutions to reduce landslide-induced fatalities by providing early and accur...
24 Oct, 2021, 12.45 PM IST
Landslides in Sikkim bound NH10 becomes concern for defense and power sectorMultiple accidents on the road have already taken many lives. At the same time glacier fed turbulent river Teesta along the road has swolle...
11 Jul, 2019, 06.05 PM IST
Indian Air Force capable of striking nuke, other targets in Pakistan: IAF ChiefHe said the IAF has the capability to carry out "full spectrum" of offensive at a "short notice" to thwart any security challenge facing th...
14 Jul, 2018, 09.16 PM IST
How Doklam dents China's bullet train chase against Japan in IndiaChina and Japan have been competing to bag high-speed rail contracts in the region. China beat Japan last year to bag a project in Indonesi...
08 Sep, 2017, 01.54 PM IST
Arunachal, Andaman national highways off Supreme Court's booze ban mapArunachal doesn't have many state highways, there are 1,011 liquor vends in the state of which implementation of SC order would warrant clo...
13 Jul, 2017, 09.10 AM IST
Supreme Court exempts Arunachal, Andaman-Nicobar from liquor ban rulingThe counsel appearing for Arunachal Pradesh said that 80% of the state was covered by forests and, out of a total state revenue of Rs 441.6...
12 Jul, 2017, 05.45 PM IST
Liquor ban across highways: Kerala's beer parlours move Supreme CourtThe matter was mentioned before a vacation bench of Justices R K Agrawal and Deepak Gupta which said the plea would be heard after the summ...
14 Jun, 2017, 03.27 PM IST
SC may announce modification order on liqour ban in second week of JulyThe ban was aimed at preventing road accidents due to drunken driving. The court heard the review petitions from Chennai-based hotels and c...
10 May, 2017, 10.57 AM IST
Watering holes along highways go high and dry following Supreme Court orderIn Delhi, 100 restaurants, liquor vends and bars, including those in five star hotels, along the six national highways passing through the ...
02 Apr, 2017, 06.07 PM IST
Government looks to award Rs 1 lakh crore road projects in North East: Nitin GadkariThe ministry plans to extend this scheme to road accident victims on North-South corridor, East-West Corridor and Golden Quadrilateral.
22 Mar, 2016, 08.18 PM IST
Brace for more elephant deaths as NBWL gives nod for extension of Siliguri to Sikkim trackAn existing rail link from New Jalpaiguri to Sevoke, which passes through a part of Mahananda, had earlier seen several elephant deaths.
06 Sep, 2015, 10.47 AM IST
Building & maintaining highways: 5 initiatives undertaken by the Modi governmentGovt is looking at awarding 10,000 km of highways in the current fiscal as it tries to meet the construction target of 30 km of roads per d...
20 May, 2015, 03.22 PM IST
- Wreckage of Dhruv helicopter found, 4 Army men dead
Four Army personnel were killed in a Dhruv helicopter crash in north Sikkim near the Sino-India border, days after a Pawan Hans chopper wen...
22 Apr, 2011, 12.57 PM IST