China strikes back on Arunachal

Barely weeks after it failed in its attempt to block Asian Development Bank (ADB) funds to a project in Arunachal Pradesh, China has successfully struck back.

Last month, in a development New Delhi has been quiet about, China won a vote on a “disclosure agreement,” which prevents ADB from formally acknowledging Arunachal Pradesh as part of India. (A disclosure agreement is a formal notification of a project once it’s approved by the ADB Board).

On June 16, India had successfully isolated China the entire ADB Board except Beijing had voted in India’s favour and secured approval for its $2.9-billion country plan.

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Last year, National Highway Projects Crawled The Slowest Ever

The country's biggest infrastructure upgrade under the National Highways Development Programme (NHDP) has recorded the lowest-ever progress rate under this government in 2007-08.

The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has posted a56 per cent project completion rate across all phases of the NHDP in 2007-08 in terms of completion of projects the lowest since the UPA came to power and Union Minister TR Baalu came to head the Ministry of Shipping, Road Transport & Highways.

The NHDP exercise is on along 33,000 km of national highways across NHDP I, II, III and V.

It has only been a slide down in the NHDP progress rate since 2004 and that was evident earlier this week when Baalu held a review with NHAI.

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