Delhi roads to be built up with international technology

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NEW DELHI - All roads in the national capital will be built up using international technology before the beginning of 2010 Commonwealth Games (CWG), Delhi Public Works Department (PWD) Minister Rajkumar Chauhan said Tuesday.

“Special attention is being paid to the roads which are around the places where the games would be held,” Chauhan said, while inaugurating the work using “recycling and micro surfacing method” in south Delhi.

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Six killed in Haryana road accident

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CHANDIGARH - Six people, including a woman, were killed Sunday when the car in which they were travelling slammed into a truck in Panipat district of Haryana, police said.

The car, being rashly driven, rammed into the stationary truck from the rear in Samalkha town of Panipat, about 130 km from here.

“Six of the eight occupants of the car were killed. Other two were seriously injured. We have shifted the injured to a civil hospital,” Samalkha Station House Officer Kaptan Singh told IANS.

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At least 20 children injured in traffic accident in Delhi

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NEW DELHI: At least 20 children were injured Tuesday when their school bus toppled after a colliding with a bus in the southern part of the Indian capital, police said.

The accident took place at around 07:45 a.m. local time near a traffic intersection of R.K. Puram in south New Delhi. The bus was carrying over 30 students of a local school, said police.

The injured children have been rushed to the AIIMS trauma center in New Delhi for treatment.

Jammu gets the highest ever plan outlay of Rs 71.48

Add comment September 9th, 2009 07:52am webmaster

Jammu: To spruce up the city, Jammu got the highest ever plan outlay to the tune of Rs 71.48 crore today for developing infrastructure projects. Chairing the meeting of the district development board, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah approved a Rs 71.48 crore plan, the highest ever so far, for developmental projects in the district.

Abdullah earmarked Rs 60 crore for the BC road flyover and ordered to start construction of a fourth bridge on river Tawi for which Rs 10 crore were sanctioned.

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20 dead in bus accident

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SRINAGAR (India) - AT LEAST 20 people were killed and 25 others injured in Indian-ruled Kashmir on Monday when an overcrowded bus skidded off a mountain road and plunged into a gorge, police said.

The accident occurred in northern Doda district, south of the summer capital Srinagar, along the main highway linking the Himalayan region with the rest of India.

‘Of the injured, nine are in a critical condition,’ a police spokesman said.

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