Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Akhilesh Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 23/05/2025. The matter related to illegal mining activites carried out by Jai Maa Chandrika Enterprises, Rajendra Nagar, village Kabari, district Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh. The applicant also alleged about illegal sale …
NEW DELHI:Nearly 30% of the Delhi-Mumbai and almost half of the Mumbai-Chennai stretches of the Golden Quadrilateral are unsafe for car, bus and truck occupants, says a first-ofits-kind safety study on national highways by agencies that included World Bank and National Highways Authority of India. The study, which looked into …
NEW DELHI: Since January this year, there has been an increase in the number of accidents being reported every month compared with last year. According to Delhi Police data, 751 accidents were reported till June 30 this year against 715 accidents in the same period in 2017. The biggest killers …
The survey was conducted Thursday morning by nearly 20 road safety experts. Mumbai: A survey conducted from Worli naka to Worli sea face by road safety experts from three private organisations has found that footpaths in Mumbai are anything but pedestrian-friendly. According to the experts, sidewalks in the city are …
This draft blueprint document for an EU Cycling Strategy is the first time ever that, in a consolidated manner, all EU policies that have a direct or indirect link to cycling, have been collected in one single document. In an intensive and collaborative approach over the past 9 months, this …
Road safety is a major international health issue – every year an estimated 1.25 million people are killed on the world’s roads and up to 50 million people incur non-fatal injuries. Despite the scale of the human cost, road safety has historically been given low priority, with interventions having a …
With over 1.24 million deaths and up to 50 million injuries every year on roads – over 90% of which happen in low and middle income countries (LMICs), road safety is now recognized as an urgent global problem often costing such countries between 3-5 % of their annual GDP and …
Transport and Health Minister Satyendra Jain on Saturday exhorted people to respect road users and called for strong laws for road safety He spoke of government’s initiative of awarding Rs 2,000 and public felicitation to people who help road victims He said this at a function, ‘Child Safety and Safer …
With the city's traffic situation getting worse by the day, relief seems to be at hand for commuters — the state government has finally given its nod to the Integrated Traffic Management System, a project that was see-sawing between the MCG and the Gurgaon police since February this year. The …
Telangana was the youngest state in the country it had the highest scope for better road safety law enforcement. Tampere (FINland): Road safety experts of the World Health Organisation said that as Telangana was the youngest state in the country it had the highest scope for better road safety law …
BHUBANESWAR: Traffic related fatalities in the country have increased by 4.6 percent in 2015 resulting in the death of over two lakh persons. Quoting the figures from a report by the World Health Organisation (WHO), Claudia Adriazola, the Program Director (Road Safety) of World Resources Institute (WRI) said, WHO’s figures …
RTA’s driving licence test checks only 3 of 24 parameters listed in MV Act. Hyderabad: Hyderabad has recorded 235 pedestrian deaths up to July 2016, compared to 455 in all of 2015 and 420 in 2014. There were several reasons for this. The prime cause was inadequately trained drivers including …
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 primary roads in Telangana. The bank is currently funding the Hyderabad-Bijapur road project which packs trauma …
The government will ask auto companies to equip all their future car models with frontal protection system to reduce the number of road fatalities in the event of a front-end collision with a pedestrian. The protection system would involve changes in the designs of bumper, bonnets, leading edges windshield and …
Nashik: Taking cognizance of the lack of manpower with the police in managing traffic, the state government has come up with a novel plan of deploying 'traffic wardens', who would assist the department in managing vehicle movement on the roads. In this backdrop, the city traffic department is preparing a …
Ahmedabad: Gujarat high court on Wednesday sought reply from the state government in response to a PIL that demanded curb on overloading of heavy vehicles - trucks and buses on state roads for the purpose of road safety. The PIL was filed by a social worker from Viramgam, Rajesh Kareliya. …
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, 2016. Ischemic heart Disease (IHD) killed 1215400 people in 2012, 12.4 per cent of total …
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 India in 2015 — an increase of five per cent from 2014. Road accidents as a whole …
Pune: While a number of accidents took place on the Nagar road BRTS corridor last month, the Pune Municipal Corporation has planned to build 5 foot over bridges to prevent accidents. However, NGO Nagrik Chetna Manch has said, ``the latest plan to build the foot over bridges is nothing but …
Global road safety body IRF has urged India to become a signatory to the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic (1968) and be on par with international standards in this area. In a letter to Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari, IRF said there is a pressing need for India …
AHMEDABAD: Every hour, at least one person is killed in road mishaps in the state. In response, the Gujarat government is trying to cut the fatality by half through a new road safety policy that focuses on first response at the 'golden hour' (the first hour after the accident). The …
