Reliance Infrastructure, a part of the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, remains in the race for the prestigious $900-million highway project in Nepal, expected to boost development in the southern Terai plains, top officials said. Expression of interest for the four-lane, 76-km highway was invited in 2009 to connect the capital city with the Terai plains, [...]
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Reliance Infrastructure in $900 mn Nepal highway project race
January 28th, 2011 |
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Volkswagen given top marks by US highway safety institute
January 5th, 2011 |
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Volkswagen has been given top marks by the American Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) which rated a total of six Volkswagen models as the “Top Safety Pick 2011″. In the compact class, the Jetta Sedan, the Jetta Sport Wagen, the Golf, the Golf GTI and the Tiguan (mid-class SUV) stood out among their competitors. [...]
Oct. 29, 1942: Alaska Highway Built as Hedge Against Invasion
October 29th, 2010 |
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1942: The Alaska Highway officially opens to military traffic.
Until the early 1940s, Alaska was a neglected U.S. territory. The Klondike gold rush of the 1880s and ’90s was a distant memory, and oil had not yet been discovered. There were a bunch of trees and rivers and snow, but nothing really worth exploiting, so the [...]
Crackerjack Highway: Album Release Show Tonight
August 20th, 2010 |
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FINE NEW SF BAND RELEASES STRONG DEBUT
Powered by groove and unforced sophistication, emerging Bay Area band Crackerjack Highway will hold their CD release shows this weekend – tonight, Friday, August 20 at the Connecticut Yankee in San Francisco and tomorrow, Saturday, August 21 at 19 Broadway in Fairfax, CA. The group has the polished pop-rock feel of vintage Steely Dan and their ilk with a modern sheen, where strong musicianship and compositional care rule the roost throughout their engaging self-titled debut. Call it rock with brains, bounce and a touch of romance and you’re in the ballpark. (Dennis Cook)
Texting-While-Driving Likely To Blame For Plastic Surgeon Frank Ryan’s Fatal Crash
August 18th, 2010 |
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Need more evidence that texting-while-driving kills? Dr. Frank Ryan — Hollywood plastic surgeon-to-the-stars — was Tweeting a message about his Border Collie when his Jeep careened off the Pacific Coast Highway, killing the doctor on impact, law enforcement officials say.The California Highway Patrol confirms that Ryan, 50, was texting before the crash, but investigators [...]
Traffic changes in effect due to bridge repair
July 3rd, 2010 |
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The whole right side of the highway through Belgrade for about 900 meters in front of the Gazela Bridge, will be closed. The part of the highway that will be shut down for the repairs is the section that is located right across the street from the Sava Centar complex.
June 29, 1956: Ike Signs Interstate Highway Act
June 29th, 2010 |
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1956: Urged to ease congestion on America’s roads, and inspired by Germany’s use of autobahns for troop movement during World War II, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956.
The new law poured $33 billion (about $265 billion in modern purchasing power) into overhauling the country’s roadways. Then-Secretary of Commerce Sinclair [...]
Minister: EUR 22bn for infrastructure
June 24th, 2010 |
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The highway sections between Novi Sad and Horgoš, and Subotica and Kelebija are priority projects that are to be completed by the end of 2010. This is according to Serbian Minister for Infrastructure Milutin Mrkonjić, who spoke on Wednesday in Belgrade, during the presentation of the General Transport Master Plan for Serbia.
10 killed in Pune accident
April 5th, 2010 |
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Ten people travelling in a sports utility vehicle were killed when it hurtled off a highway here after ramming into a truck’s rear, police said.
Nine people were injured, some seriously, in the accident on the Pune-Satara highway, police officer Ashish Kale told IANS. They have been taken to the Sassoon Hospital here.
The incident occurred near [...]
FCC Broadband Plan: The New Interstate Highway System
March 15th, 2010 |
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News Analysis: The proposed FCC National Broadband Plan may just be social change we all can agree on. The federal government has already shown that it can manage to build out a network of highways under Eisenhower’s Interstate Highway System, among others. However, in this recession, is a broadband plan run by the government the public works project we’ve all been looking for?
– In the mid-1990s, the phrase quot;Digital Divide quot; came into being as
shorthand for describing the mass of disenfranchised Americans who were not
participating in the computing or the Internet revolution. On March 16, the
Federal Communications Commission wants to narrow that gap through an…
“AP of South Serbia†sign posted on highway
February 6th, 2010 |
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The opposition movement “Niš Region†posted up a sign on the Niš-Belgrade highway reading “Autonomous Province of South Serbia.†The movement stated that the sign was posted to warn officials about disregarding the region and ignoring the difficult economic situation in Niš and the region.
Handheld Cell Phone Bans Not Reducing Crashes
January 29th, 2010 |
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The Highway Loss Data Institute reports that laws banning using handheld mobile phones while driving or sending text messages while driving didn’t lead to reduced numbers of collision claims.
– The numbers aren’t adding up for the Highway Loss Data Institute. Comparing
insurance claims for crash damage in four U.S.
jurisdictions before and after bans on driving and using handheld phones,
researchers found no reduction in crashes after the bans.
quot;HLDI researchers calculated month…
Pile-ups near Belgrade slow traffic
January 29th, 2010 |
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Several pile-ups on the highway near Dobanovci, northwest of Belgrade, involved some 50 cars and slowed down the traffic, reports say. Nine people also suffered injuries in the accidents.
Golf: Mystery crash left Woods with ‘fat lip’ – report
December 31st, 2009 |
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Golf superstar Tiger Woods had a “fat lip” but no other visible facial injuries when Florida Highway Patrol officers met him four days after a mysterious car crash outside his home, a local television station reported Wednesday. Florida Highway Patrol spokeswoman Kim Montes told WESH-TV in
Tiger Woods Overdose? Is Tiger Woods Addicted To Prescription Drugs?
December 8th, 2009 |
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As allegations of serial infidelity continue to mount, there are now questions about Tiger Woods’ possible addiction to painkillers and other prescription drugs. What role did controlled substances play in the golfer’s Nov. 27 car crash? Did the world’s most prolific golfer suffer an overdose?
While TMZ.com claims Tiger may have been high after a possible [...]
Lawmakers To Propose Ban On Driving While Texting
July 29th, 2009 |
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WASHINGTON — States would be required to ban driving while texting or face the loss of highway funds under legislation being pushed by a group of Democratic senators.
Aimed at reducing driver distraction and highway deaths and injuries,…
Helicopter Crashes Onto Highway In Maryland, Killing 4 (VIDEO)
July 25th, 2009 |
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(Associated Press) HAGERSTOWN, Md. – One of four people killed when a helicopter crashed on a Maryland highway told his son he was delaying his flight home because of foul weather.
The four — three flight company employees and a friend who h…
Turkey to build highway through Sandžak
July 24th, 2009 |
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Serbian and Turkish Foreign Ministers Vuk Jeremić and Ahmet Davatoglu have agreed that Turkey will invest in the construction of a new highway through Sandžak. Jeremić told a joint press conference after Davutoglu’s meeting with Labor Minister Rasim Ljajić and Minister Without Portfolio Sulejman Uglajnin that Sandžak’s development was a priority not only for Serbia, but Turkey too.
Four dead in US helicopter crash
July 24th, 2009 |
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A helicopter has crashed on to a highway in the US state of Maryland and burst into flames, killing all four people on board, officials say.
No vehicles were hit when the commercial aircraft came down on Interstate 70 in western Maryland.
Firefighters found the helicopter engulfed by fire by the time they arrived at the scene on Thursday night.
Visibility was said to be limited because of fog, but it was not clear if weather played a part in the crash. </p
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Unsafe at Any Speed: Hands-Free Cell Phones?
July 21st, 2009 |
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Suppressed by the government since 2003, research by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration shows drivers using hands-free headsets are just as likely to be involved in traffic accidents as drivers using handheld devices.
– The NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) has withheld
information since 2003 that shows drivers using hands-free headsets are
just as likely to be involved in traffic accidents as drivers using a
handheld device, according to records obtained by the consumer
advocacy groups P…