Word: roading
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...headline growth numbers are just the start. It is the sheer ambition of India's government that takes the breath away. At the World Economic Forum meeting, Kamal Nath, the Road Transport and Highways Minister, outlined a 12,500-mile (20,000 km) highway-construction program that will require India to build 121/2 miles (20 km) of new roads a day - and that is only a part of a gobsmacking infrastructure program that will include more power generation, more air- and seaports, more irrigation projects. Singh stressed the importance of nationwide improvement in education and health, which will also involve...
...Crimson (5-3-1, 5-3-0 ECAC) hit the road and plowed through conference bottom-feeders Yale and Brown in convincing fashion, shutting out the Bulldogs (1-7-1, 1-7-0), 5-0, and trouncing the Bears...
...Crimson cruised to a win in its season opener, dismantling the overmatched Bears on the road...
Late-night digging along the back roads of Bastar, a dense jungle region in India's northern state of Chhattisgarh, can only mean one thing if there's nothing to show for it the next day: Maoist rebel activity. So when a group of villagers in the state's Kanker district, the gateway to Bastar, were kept awake for nights on end last month by repeated chinking from metal striking rock on a nearby road, they knew something...
...They were right. The Maoists, commonly known in India as Naxalites, had dug a tunnel five feet under the surface of a paved back road that was used by security forces from the nearby Counter-Terrorism and Jungle Warfare College. The insurgents' tunnel's exit points, on the side of the road, were well concealed with alternating layers of sandbags and dirt. But before the Naxalites got around to booby-trapping the underground tunnel with improvised explosives cobbled together from scavenged pieces of iron and heisted explosive materials from state-owned mines, it had been filled in. The villagers...