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The Victims Association-Morbi sought the formation of an expert committee to investigate nationwide tragedies in the wake of the recent Harni Lake boat mishap in Vadodara

India plans to increase travel speeds on its national highway network from 47 kmph to 85 kmph by fiscal 2031-32. The plan includes decongesting highways and building high-speed corridors, with India spending Rs 19.5 lakh crore on this upgrade. This could reduce logistics costs to 9-10% of GDP, similar to countries like Singapore and the US.

The government has identified 5,803 black spots in the entire National Highways network in the country, with Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, and Karnataka having the biggest share of such highly dangerous stretches, Parliament was informed on Thursday. In a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha, Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari said state/UT-wise details of the accidents/fatalities at these black spots based on the data for 2018-2020 received from states.

Union Road Transport and Highways minister Nitin Gadkari said budgetary allocation of the road ministry has increased from about Rs 31,130 crore in 2013-14 to Rs 2,70,435 crore in 2023-24. Such increased budgetary allocation led to expansion of the National Highway (NH) network in the country from about 91,287 km in March 2014 to about 1,46,145 km at present, Gadkari added.

Focus on Legislature seen as key to making inroads

LACONIA --- “I'm from Cornish Flat, New Hampshire, near Claremont and Lebanon, and my environmental concern is single use plastic waste and pollution in our state.”

New Delhi [India], March 1 (ANI/GPRC): February was a month full of awareness campaigns on Cancer. Celebrating World Cancer Day ( February 4) and International Children Cancer Day ( February 15), Narayan Health (NH), India's leading healthcare provider with a chain of multispecialty tertiary and primary healthcare facilities across a network of 23 hospitals and 7 heart centres in India, organised extensive and multi-location campaigns to raise awareness and honoured the spirit of cancer surv...

Ann Podlipny of Chester is a member of the NH Network. It’s remarkable that all of us have the capacity “to stop burning things” as climate activist Bill McKibben wrote in his essay, In a World on Fire. Though climate action can feel overwhelming at...