Indian automobiles will soon be assigned safety ratings, road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari said. The draft version of the notification for Bharat NCAP — a crash test programme ...

Safe return   Sir — Those who have borrowed books from a library are familiar with the niggling pressure of returning lent titles within a stipulated period of time. Recently, a copy...

Soon, a person sending photograph of a wrongly parked vehicle may get a reward of Rs 500 in case the fine works out to be Rs 1,000, Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Thu...

Eager wait    Who will be the Bharatiya Janata Party’s candidate for the presidential election next month? This is the question that is on almost everyone’s lips these days i...

Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren has urged Union minister Nitin Gadkari for widening important highway stretches in the state, particularly from Basukinath to Dumka. In a letter to Gadkari on Th...

State-owned NHAI has created a Guinness World Record for the longest continuously laid bituminous lane of 75 kilometres in 105 hours and 33 minutes on the national highway between Amravati and Akola d...

Currently, India imposes 100 per cent import duty on fully imported cars with CIF (Cost, Insurance and Freight) value more than USD 40,000 and 60 per cent on those costing less than the amount. The I...

The government has approved a proposal to allow the board of directors of public sector undertakings (PSU) to recommend and undertake the divestment or closure of their subsidiaries, units or stakes i...

The collapse of an under-construction bridge over the Ganga in Bihar during a mild thunderstorm last month resonated in Delhi where Union road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari scoffed at ...

Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Saturday said his aim is to develop at least one automobile scrapping facility within 150 kilometres from each city centre, while asserting that the country has the pot...