Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Sewri-Nhava Sheva Atal Setu today. The Mumbai Trans Harbour Link has been built at a cost of ₹ 17,840 crore and is the longest sea bridge in the country.

In December 2016, PM Modi laid the foundation stone of the bridge. Marking the historic milestone in India’s infrastructure development, the name Atal Setu also honours the former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

The Atal Setu is a 21.8-kilometre-long bridge that connects Sewri in Mumbai and the Nhava Sheva area in Raigad district.

With the help of the country’s longest bridge, the journey between the two locations will be shortened from the current two hours to around 15-20 minutes.

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Talking about the infrastructural marvel, Metropolitan Commissioner of MMRDA Dr Sanjay Mukherjee said, “On January 12, PM Modi will inaugurate the Atal Setu – the Mumbai Trans Harbour Link. This is India’s longest bridge built on the sea. Several such technologies have been used in the making of this bridge, which are used for the first time in India. The lights used in this bridge do not disturb the aquatic environment.”

Here is What’s allowed and What’s not:

What’s allowed

The maximum speed limit for four-wheelers on the Mumbai Trans Harbour Link (MTHL) will be 100 kmph.

The maximum speed limit for vehicles like cars, taxis, light motor vehicles, minibuses and two-axle buses is 100 kilometres per hour.

On the ascent and descent of the bridge, the speed will be restricted to 40 kilometres per hour.

What’s not allowed

The police, on Wednesday, informed that motorbikes, auto rickshaws and tractors won’t be allowed on the sea bridge, the police said on Wednesday. There will also be no entry for vehicles like motorcycles, mopeds, three-wheelers, animal-drawn vehicles and slow-moving vehicles.

Multi-axle heavy vehicles, trucks and buses heading towards Mumbai won’t have an entry on the Eastern Freeway.

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These vehicles will have to take the Mumbai Port-Sewri Exit (Exit 1C) and use the MBPT Road near ‘Gadi Adda’ for further movement.

An official informed that the Mumbai police have imposed the speed limit on India’s longest sea bridge to curb “danger, obstructions and inconvenience to the public.”

Meanwhile, the Prime Minister will be visiting Maharashtra to unveil projects worth over ₹ 30,500 crore in the state.

During his visit on Friday, PM Modi will also lay the foundation stone of an underground road tunnel connecting Eastern Freeway’s Orange Gate. The Prime Minister will also launch Namo Mahila Shashaktikaran Abhiyaan in the state

Suchana Seth checked into the apartment in Goa’s Candolim on January 6 and stayed there till January 8. Police suspect that she killed her four-year-old son in the apartment. She then allegedly stuffed the body in a bag and took it to Karnataka in a taxi on Monday, police said.
The child was smothered to death either with a piece of cloth or a pillow, the post-mortem revealed.
She was arrested from Karnataka on Monday night with the help of the cab driver. The driver said that Seth did not utter a single word during the entire trip which lasted more than 10 hours.
Police sources say that she has not been cooperating with the investigation and has shown “no remorse” so far, either over the death of her child, or her role in it.
The 39-year-old was involved in a bitter custody battle with her husband Venkat Raman.
A handwritten note has been recovered from her belongings which she had written about her feud with her husband and the mental exhaustion due to the ongoing court proceedings. Police sources say the note was written on a tissue paper using an eyeliner.
“We would not like to disclose the content of the note but it indicates that she was upset over the custody of her child,” a police official said.
During the investigation, police found that she had on January 6 messaged her estranged husband Venkat Raman. She told him that he could meet the child the next day. But nobody was home in Bengaluru when he came over.
According to the couple’s divorce documents, Suchana Seth had filed a domestic violence case in August 2022 against Raman. She had accused him of physically abusing her and her son, a charge Venkat Raman has denied in court.
The court issued a restraining order against Mr Raman who was barred from his wife’s home or communicating with her or the child. He was later given visitation rights, a development which allegedly upset Suchana Seth.

India’s blue-chip indexes, Nifty and Sensex hit fresh all-time highs today, led by gains in IT services firms after their results and commentary exceeded expectations, alleviating concerns about weak demand.

The NSE Nifty 50 added 1.22 per cent to 21,911 points, while the S&P BSE Sensex climbed 1.31 per cent to 72,661, as of 12.36 pm.

Shares of Tata Consultancy Services climbed 4.3 per cent and Infosys surged 7 per cent, after reporting bigger-than-expected revenue in the third quarter. The rise powered the IT index about 5 per cent higher.

Infosys, TCS, Tech Mahindra, Wipro and HCLTech were the top five gainers on the Nifty 50 index, climbing between 3% and 7%.