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Tuesday, July 22, 2025
TopicRoad accidents

Topic: Road accidents

Why a road builder’s resolution professional was blamed for accident on Yamuna Expressway

UP Police filed FIR against Anuj Jain, Jaypee Infratech's interim resolution professional, for failing to implement safety suggestions to prevent accidents on Yamuna Expressway.

Airbags now a must for front passenger seats in cars manufactured on & after 1 April

For existing car models, which are already under production, the deadline for fitting airbags for front-seat passengers is 31 August 2021, according to a highways ministry notification.

Road crashes hit poor harder in India, 42% left in debt after accidents — World Bank report

Conducted in partnership with Save Life Foundation, the study was released virtually by Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari Saturday.

Union minister Shripad Naik injured in car accident in Karnataka, wife dies in hospital

The vehicle the Naiks were travelling in met with an accident near Ankola in Uttar Kannada district, while they were returning to their native Goa.

8 dead, 21 injured after bus collides with gas tanker due to fog in UP’s Sambhal

The injured have been admitted to nearby hospitals, said officials, adding that police are at the spot and rescue operations are on.

24 migrant workers killed, 36 injured in truck collision in Uttar Pradesh

The accident took place in Mihauli, when a trailer truck carrying around 50 migrant labourers from Rajasthan, collided with another truck.

19 people killed after bus collides with lorry in Tamil Nadu’s Tirupur

The Kerala government bus was going to Thiruvananthapuram from Bengaluru on the Coimbatore-Salem Highway when the accident occurred.

Actor Shabana Azmi injured in road accident on Mumbai-Pune Expressway

Azmi was rushed to MGM Hospital in Navi Mumbai and was said to be out of danger, said a police official. Her husband and lyricist Javed Akhtar, who was traveling with her, escaped unhurt.

6 dead after car falls into canal in Greater Noida due to fog

Two minors were among the dead while five others got injured in the accident that took place at 11.30 pm Sunday in Dankaur area.

Can India reduce deaths on hazardous roads to zero? This group is trying

SaveLIFE Foundation plans to create a Zero Fatality Corridor (ZFC) by 2020, which marks the end of the UN Decade Of Action For Road Safety.

On Camera

Bihar mimics 19th-century American South. Citizenship is now weaponised to exclude voters

Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.