road accidents

Bhopal, April 10 A total of 149 leopards died in Madhya Pradesh over the 14 months starting January last year, with accidents accounting for the highest number of fatalities, according to data provided in response to a Right to Information query.While activist Ajay Dube, who filed the RTI...

Kabul, April 10 – One person was killed and 15 others were injured when a vehicle crashed into a residential house in Logar province, eastern Afghanistan, a local police official said on Friday.The accident occurred on the outskirts of Pul-e-Alam, the provincial capital, due to reckless...

New Delhi, April 9 Road safety awareness is a national movement and requires responsible behavior from all users, said Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways Harsh Malhotra on Thursday.Malhotra emphasized that road safety awareness initiatives are not merely isolated events, but...

Amaravati, April 9 Andhra Pradesh Transport Minister M Ramprasad Reddy has ordered a crackdown on bus safety violations, resulting in the seizure of a vehicle and the imposition of fines during inspections in the Guntur district, a source in the Transport department said on Thursday.The...

Shimla, April 8 A major accident was narrowly avoided in Himachal Pradesh's Chamba district on Wednesday when a portion of a road in a landslide-affected area collapsed as a state transport bus attempted to pass over it, causing the front tyre of the bus to fall off and hang precariously...

Lucknow, April 8 The Uttar Pradesh Police removed five station house officers (SHOs) from their posts on Wednesday for failing to curb road accidents and ordered a preliminary inquiry against two circle officers (traffic).According to an official statement, the decision was taken after a...

Hyderabad, April 8 Five people have been killed, and another has been injured in two separate road accidents in Telangana, police said on Wednesday.A car hit two engineering students who were riding a motorcycle, and a pedestrian who was crossing the road, in Hastinapuram late Tuesday night...

Barwani, April 3 – In two separate tragic road accidents, two tribal youths lost their lives while two others sustained serious injuries after their vehicles plunged into deep ravines in the Barwani district of Madhya Pradesh.The first accident occurred late on Friday near Biliya Pani Ghat...

Kabul, April 3 – Two commuters were killed and 13 others were injured when a passenger bus veered off the road in Ghazni province, eastern Afghanistan, on Friday, provincial police spokesman Khalid Sarhadi said.The accident occurred on the main road in the Qarabagh district early Friday...

Chhindwara, April 2 – In a setback for the Congress, senior leader and former Chief Minister Kamal Nath rejected claims of an LPG shortage in Madhya Pradesh on Thursday, contradicting his party’s aggressive campaign against the Centre and the state government.While the Congress has...

Bhopal, April 2 – A 50-year-old man was killed and four of his family members were injured when an out-of-control dump truck crashed into a house on a roadside in Madhya Pradesh's Narsinghpur district on Thursday.The incident occurred in Kamti village, under the Gadarwara police station area...

New Delhi/Gwalior, March 31 Union Minister for Communication Jyotiraditya Scindia met Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari in New Delhi on Tuesday.Both leaders held detailed discussions on several key projects aimed at strengthening road connectivity and infrastructure...

Jammu, March 30 Jammu and Kashmir government on Monday said that road accidents in the Union Territory have shown a declining trend over the past three years, owing to the effective implementation of various road safety measures.In a written reply to the question of National Conference MLA Ali...

UDHAMPUR, March 29: Deputy Commissioner Minga Sherpa distributed financial assistance to eligible beneficiaries under the Road Accident Victim Fund Scheme.The event was attended by Additional Superintendent of Police Sandeep Bhat, Assistant Regional Transport Officer Mudassir Iqbal, and other...

Dhaka, March 29 Bangladesh is set to introduce the Global Positioning System (GPS) to regulate bus movement in the capital, which is said to be a major cause of traffic congestion, the Minister of Road Transport and Bridges said on Sunday."Authorities will monitor vehicles centrally...

Kabul, March 29 – One commuter was killed and 10 others were injured when a minibus collided with two motorists in Laghman province, east Afghanistan, according to a statement from the provincial police office on Sunday.According to the statement, the minibus collided with a three-wheeled...

Shimla, March 28 Road accidents have claimed 2,643 lives in Himachal Pradesh in the past three years, Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu informed the Assembly on Saturday.In a written reply to a question from MLA Bhuvneshwar Gaur, the chief minister said that 9,999 people were injured in...

Ratlam, March 28 – In another road accident on the busy Ratlam-Indore four-lane highway in Madhya Pradesh, four people sustained serious injuries when a private bus they were travelling in collided with a moving truck in Dharad village on Saturday.The incident occurred around 8:30 to 9:00 a.m...

Bhopal, March 28 The Congress announced on Saturday that it would provide Rs 50,000 in assistance to each of the 10 families of those killed in a bus accident in Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh, two days ago, blaming the government for the tragedy.Speaking at a press conference, Leader of the...

Baripada/Puri, March 28 At least three people died and three others were injured as Nor'wester storms caused widespread damage in Odisha's Mayurbhanj and Puri districts, police said on Saturday.Strong winds followed by thunderstorms lashed the Mayurbhanj district headquarters, Baripada, around...