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Detailed disaster management plan for road & highway sector unveiled

August 23, 2025

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The New Indian Express Tiruchy

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has finalized a Disaster Management Plan (DMP)—a comprehensive framework for managing natural and man-made calamities with a focus on maintaining and restoring connectivity on roads and highways.

- PARVEZ SULTAN @ New Delhi

It outlines strategies for prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery, including updated road design standards, community awareness programmes, and adoption of ‘Build Back Better’ principle in post-calamity reconstruction.

Case studies such as landslide mitigation along NH-44 and 5 (2022), cyclone preparedness in Odisha (2021), glacial lake outburst flood in Uttarakhand (2021), post-flood reconstruction in Kerala (2018) highlight the plan’s practical approach, officials said.

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BJP winning 110 of 152 seats: Shah

UNION Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday claimed that the BJP would win in 110 out of 152 Assembly constituencies in the first phase of polls, prompting the Trinamool Congress in the state to counter his claims.

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₹95 crore debit card racket busted in C’garh Naxal belt

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List out steps taken to chant Tamil hymns at temple consecration, HR&CE dept told

THE Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court recently sought status report from the HR&CE department on steps taken to ensure that Tamil hymns are chanted along with Sanskrit mantras at the ‘yagasala’, sanctum sanctorum and the temple tower during the consecration of thd Meenakshi Sundareswarar temple in Madurai scheduled for September.

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Poll agents with criminal records allowed in Gujarat

THE high-decibel campaign for Gujarat’s local body elections ended on Friday, but a fresh political row erupted after the State Election Commission (SEC) withdrew a restriction that barred people with criminal records from becoming polling agents, with the opposition Congress calling the move a threat to fair polls.

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Maha tiff over making Marathi must for cabbies

THE Maharashtra government’s decision to make Marathi speaking mandatory for auto and taxi drivers triggered a tussle between Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Nirupam and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) workers on Friday.

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'Custodial interrogation must': HC rejects Khera's anticipatory bail plea

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FIREWORKS displays associated with temple festivals and other religious celebrations continue to claim lives with disturbing regularity.

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CM Stalin to mark post-poll lull in Kodaikanal, EPS stays put in Salem

WITH polling for the Assembly elections concluding on a largely peaceful note, political parties in Tamil Nadu have shifted gears from high-decibel campaigning to closed-door reviews, strategy huddles and brief breaks ahead of the results.

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Iran, UAE join BRICS meet in Delhi to talk West Asia war

BRICS Deputy Foreign Ministers and Special Envoys on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) met in the capital on Friday, with members including Iran and the UAE expressing “deep concern on the recent conflict in the Middle East” in achair’s statement issued after the talks.

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Rise in illness, but hospitalisation less, says govt

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