Ministry of Shipping, Road Transport and Highways (India)

Port workers seek pay hike

KOCHI: The representatives of the five recognised federations of port and dockworkers at a meeting held in Mumbai decided to attend the meeting of the Bipartite Wage Revision Committee (BWNC) and to approach the Union Shipping...

Hijackers release all Indian sailors

Stolt Valor was seized in Somali waters on September 15 — Photo: PTI An elated Seema Goyal, wife of Capt. Prabhat Kumar Goyal, and her daughter after hearing news of Mr. Goyal’s release by hijackers, in Dehra Dun on Sunday....

AIADMK plans demonstration in Karur

CHENNAI: The AIADMK will organise a demonstration on November 18 in Karur district to condemn Union Minister of Shipping and Road Transport T.R. Baalu for his failure to complete the railway flyover in Lalapet. In a statement...

Karunanidhi to inaugurate Indian Maritime University in Chennai next month

CHENNAI: Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi will inaugurate the Indian Maritime University in Chennai and lay the foundation stone for the administrative block in December 2008. In a release, Union Minister of Shipping, Road...

Indian Navy foils hijacks of two ships off Aden

India's News.Net Tuesday 11th November, 2008 (IANS) In a daring rescue mission, an Indian Navy warship patrolling the Gulf of Aden successfully foiled an attempt by pirates to hijack an Indian and a Saudi Arabian merchant...

India misses targets for most sectors in Apr-Aug

New Delhi: The country has missed its targets across all major sectors such as power, coal, finished steel, roads, railways and petroleum despite the Centre’s continued push, discloses government data. An August review of the...

‘State Government is implementing pro-people programmes’

Highways Minister stresses the development schemes executed by the Government ERODE: Tamil Nadu Government is the only one implementing pro-people programmes, State Highways Minister M.P. Saminathan has said. A district...

Money ‘matters’

With a number of private banks entering the field, banking sector has become more competitive. The staff are forced to work for longer hours and some banks are kept open on Sunday also, notwithstanding the ubiquitous presence...

Buckingham Canal to be declared national waterway

Dredging up to a depth of two metres to be taken up It will facilitate transportation of firewood, salt in barges CHENNAI: The Buckingham Canal will be declared a national waterway shortly, according to T.R. Baalu, Union...

Minister commissions four-lane road to port

— Photo: N. Rajesh Making strides: Union Minister of Shipping, Road Transport and Highways, T. R. Baalu inaugurating capital dredging project to deepen inner harbour in Tuticorin on Thursday. TUTICORIN: A capital dredging...

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