KOLKATA: Sana Ganguly, daughter of former Indian skipper and BCCI ex-chief Sourav Ganguly, had a close shave on Friday evening when the car she was travelling in was hit by a long-distance private bus. The incident was reported around 6.30 pm from Behala Chowrasta crossing on the Thakurpukur-bound flank, a couple of hundred metres from…
NEW DELHI: Considering speed and lane violations are the major causes of crashes, the road transport ministry has now made it mandatory for road owning agencies to paint the speed limits with vehicle logos on the pavement every 10 km to guide and alert the drivers on expressways and National Highways.The ministry this week notified…
NEW DELHI: Union minister Nitin Gadkari said on Thursday that the situation has worsened despite his initial commitment to cut accidents by 50% upon taking charge as the minister for road transport and highways. Speaking in the Lok Sabha during a discussion on road safety, Gadkari said, “Forget about reducing the number of accidents, I…
NEW DELHI: Seven people, including three women and a child, were killed in a road accident on the Mathura-Kaiserganj highway in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras district. The collision involved a pickup truck and a courier container, leading to the loss of lives. Meanwhile, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath expressed his condolences in a post on…
NEW DELHI: In the past decade (2014-23), around 15.3 lakh people have been killed in road crashes — that’s more than the population of the Union Territory of Chandigarh and nearly equivalent to that of Bhubaneswar — despite the Central govt making repeated global commitments to reduce road fatalities and the Supreme Court’s interventions to…
NEW DELHI: Only six large states – Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan – accounted for nearly 55 per cent of the 1,73,000 road deaths in the country last year. Among them, Rajasthan saw the sharpest increase in fatalities, with an almost 6 per cent rise compared to 2022, according to…
4 people died while another was injured after an Alto car met with an accident with a tractor in Noida NOIDA: Four people died while another was injured after the car in which they were travelling in collided with a tractor in Noida early on Monday.According to the police, the accident took place at around…
Delhi LG, VK Saxena has written to the Union Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, urging her to link insurance premiums of vehicles to the number of traffic violations recorded against the vehicle NEW DELHI: Delhi Lieutenant Governor (LG) VK Saxena has written to Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, advocating for a system that links vehicle insurance…
Exactly a month ago, a 17-year-old boy rammed the Porsche Taycan car he was driving at an alleged speed of 160kmph into a bike at 2.30am in Kalyaninagar, killing two young techies on their way home. In the aftermath, various authorities — from the police to the civic body and state excise department — have…
A video from Bengaluru has stirred debates on social media once again. The video shows a small child standing on the footrest of a moving scooter while the parents are also on the scooter, riding it on a busy road. In fact, from what can be seen in the video, the pillion, a lady, isn’t…
