Road accidents in India 2022
The Annual Report on ‘Road Accidents in India-2022” has been published by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways. This report is based on the data/information received from police departments of States/UTs
Traffic Accidents
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Traffic poles will now have SOS systems
Kolkata: After Monday's schoolbus accident in New Town, the Housing Infrastructure Development Corporation (Hidco) authorities are planning to install smart poles in the township. Apart from LED lights,
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World Bank funding for road safety in Telangana
The Hyderabad- Bijapur road safety project is expected to finish by June next year. Hyderabad: The World Bank has in principle agreed to fund up to Rs.1300 crore for major road safety measures along
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The Motor Vehicle (Amendment) Bill 2016
The Motor Vehicle (Amendment) Bill 2016, which is a historic Step towards making roads safe and saving lakhs of innocent lives, was introduced in the Lok Sabha on 9th August, 2016. The Amendment aims
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Accidental deaths & suicides in India
<p>The report contains comprehensive information on various aspects of deaths due to accidents and suicides. An elaborate analysis on causes of deaths due to accidents, inter-alia, traffic accidents; patterns
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Official government statistics of road traffic deaths in India under-represent pedestrians and motorised two wheeler riders
<p>Reliable data on traffic deaths are important for planning road safety programmes and evaluating progress. Although pedestrians comprise approximately 40% of traffic deaths in low-income and middle-income
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Waterlogging, accidents give drivers nightmares
Showers on Tuesday evening caused waterlogging in many parts of the city.Jams were also reported in east and south Delhi due to breakdowns and accidents. Even though the municipal corporations had claimed
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Countdown timers to return after 8 years
Ahmedabad: Forget those restless seconds while waiting for a traffic light to turn green. Traffic Signal Countdown Timers (TSCT) will be back at 186 traffic junctions in the city. The countdown timers
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Nod awaited to strengthen accident-prone ghat section
A proposal mooted in recent years by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) for widening the Bannari-Dhimbam stretch of the Mysore National Highway has not been cleared by the Union Environment
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WHO's health report card confirms India's massive non communicable disease burden
Diseases of the heart and of the lung remain the bane of India's disease burden, being the top two causes of the deaths, respectively as shown by the recently released WHO World Health Statistics Report,
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1.46 lakh lives lost on Indian roads last year
Majority of victims in the 15-34 age group An official report, released by Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday, said 1.46 lakh people were killed in road accidents in