road safety

Hazaribag, March 14 Two people died and several others were injured after a truck collided with multiple vehicles in the Hazaribag district of Jharkhand on Saturday, police said.The accident occurred near the Charhi Chowk area when the truck driver lost control, causing the truck to collide...

New Delhi, March 14 – Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a major political rally on Saturday at the historic Brigade Parade Ground in Kolkata, as the BJP concludes its statewide "Parivartan Yatra" ahead of the upcoming West Bengal Legislative Assembly election.The BJP's West Bengal unit...

Pune, March 13 The Pune Municipal Corporation on Friday unveiled an eight-point action plan to tackle rising air pollution and traffic congestion in Maharashtra's second largest city, with a strong focus on improving pedestrian infrastructure, promoting public transport, and encouraging...

New Delhi, March 13 Two men were injured after a car, driven recklessly, jumped the median and collided with their vehicles on Pusa Road near Dev Prakash Shastri Marg on Friday, an official said.The accident occurred around 11 am when the driver allegedly lost control of the speeding car...

Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari, has stated that key road safety and commuter facility projects worth approximately ₹171.25 crore have been completed on National Highway 44 in Jammu and Kashmir.These projects include rectifying accident-prone blackspots at SIDCO...

Chatra, March 13 Four teenage boys were killed when their motorcycle collided head-on with a car in Chatra district, Jharkhand, police said on Friday.The accident occurred on the Piparwar-Tandwa Road in the Chiraiyatand area, they said.The boys were between 14 and 17 years old, and residents...

Hyderabad, March 12 Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy has directed officials to purchase only electric vehicles henceforth for any government department as part of measures to check pollution.He instructed the officials to use only electric vehicles in the Core Urban Region (CURE)...

Chennai, March 12 – The Tamil Nadu State Highways Department has begun a major widening project at the Padi Rail Overbridge (ROB) on Jawaharlal Nehru Salai (Inner Ring Road), aimed at easing one of the most significant traffic bottlenecks along this busy arterial corridor.The ₹139-crore...

Jammu, March 11 Nearly 16,000 vehicles were seized in Jammu and Kashmir last year for violating traffic rules, even as the traffic department deployed multiple measures for better enforcement, IGP (Traffic) M Suleiman said on Wednesday.Suleiman, who briefed Chief Secretary Atal Dulloo during a...

Srinagar, March 11: The Chief Secretary, Atal Dulloo, today chaired a comprehensive review meeting of the Transport Department to assess measures being taken for effective traffic management, reduction of road accidents, and strengthening of road safety mechanisms across Jammu and Kashmir.The...

The opening of the third bridge constructed by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) over the Basantar River in Samba on the Jammu–Pathankot National Highway has brought relief and happiness to commuters, local residents, and the business community of Samba town.Constructed at an...

Jalandhar, March 10 Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann said on Tuesday that the AAP government has fulfilled every promise made to the people of the state and remains committed to honoring all its assurances in the coming years.Addressing a ‘Lok Milni’ event in Jalandhar in which he...

New Delhi, March 10 The Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) has constituted a committee to conduct a thorough investigation into an accident involving a cluster bus in west Delhi's Nihal Vihar area, in which two people were killed and two others were critically injured, officials said on Tuesday...

New Delhi, March 10 – The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted bail to the father of the minor, allegedly driving a Porsche car under the influence of alcohol in Pune in 2024, which resulted in the death of two people.The incident occurred on May 19, 2024, when the Porsche car, allegedly driven by...

New Delhi, March 10 The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted bail to the father of the minor allegedly driving the Porsche car under the influence of alcohol in Pune in 2024, which resulted in the death of two people.The incident occurred on May 19, 2024, when the Porsche car, allegedly driven by...

New Delhi/Bhuj, March 10 – Union Road Transport and Highways Minister, Nitin Gadkari, on Tuesday approved a ₹650.42 crore project to develop a key highway corridor in the Kutch district, aimed at improving connectivity across the remote region of Gujarat.The project involves the construction...

Sultanpur (UP), March 10 An 80-year-old man died here after a speeding SUV collided with his motorcycle from behind, police said on Tuesday.The incident took place near Garhwara in the Gosaiganj area on Monday night.Circle Officer R K Chaturvedi said the elderly man – identified as Ram Anuj...

Indore, March 10 The construction of an ambitious highway connecting Madhya Pradesh's financial capital Indore to Hyderabad will be completed by December this year, with the work involving three tunnels carved through mountains, officials said.These tunnels will allow motorists to avoid steep...

Indore, March 9 The construction of an ambitious highway connecting Madhya Pradesh's financial capital Indore to Hyderabad will be completed by December this year, officials said, adding that the project involves the creation of three tunnels through mountains.The opening of the four-lane...

Rajouri/Jammu, March 9 Three people, including a woman and her newborn baby, were killed and three were injured in two separate road accidents in the districts of Rajouri and Jammu in Jammu and Kashmir on Monday, officials said.Shanaz Akhtar (40), a resident of Mandi Poonch, and her...