The government announced a new policy for extending the lifespan of ageing national highways through 'white-topping'. This method involves ...

To address all these challenges Border Road Organization, project VARTAK, Arunachal Pradesh has successfully utilized an indigenous road co...

Steel slag bituminous surfacing due to its inherent high strength and stiffness will offer a more durable heavy duty road surface in face o...

In his address at the seventh edition of the Economic Times Global Business Summit on Saturday, Nitin Gadkari said funds are not a constrai...

"The credit for all this does not go to me, but to the engineers, contractors, consultants, workers who toiled through day and night," the ...

The total length of the 75 kilometres of single lane continuous bituminous concrete road is equivalent to 37.5 kilometres of two-lane paved...

nvented in the 1980s when the professor worked as the chief asphalt engineer in Pennsylvania, the material is informally known as “Kandhal ...

The project will cover 10,510 km stretch of rural roads in Madhya Pradesh that fall under the Chief Minister's Gram Sadak Yojana programme.

It has been experienced that these highways are prone to damage and need frequent maintenance due to adverse climatic conditions such as ra...

In the beginning, municipal corporations with a population of over 5 lakh and municipal councils that have a population of over 2 lakh will...

"For every 100 kg of tar used to build asphalt roads, 3 to 6 kg of plastic will be mixed in it," a Public Works Department official said.

Road secretary Vijay Chhibber said the bids for widening this 20km stretch between Delhi and Dasna will be out in the next few months.

Stress is also being laid on transporting goods and materials through inland waterways whose share of the total traffic today in the countr...

The rigid pavement works under Phase-I (16 kms) has already been awarded and the execution of work shall be taken up soon at the end of the...

The government is implementing a Private Entrepreneurs Guarantee Scheme (PEG) for construction of 204 lakh tonnes of covered storage capaci...

Moreover, the percentage of surfaced road — both concrete and bituminous — has increased significantly from 49% in 2008 to 54% in 2012.

There's merit in Kamal Nath's concrete option for expressways.