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Sunday, August 17, 2025
TopicRoad rage

Topic: road rage

Hit by car, dragged for 10 metres, Delhi police constable succumbs to head injuries

Incident took place in Delhi’s Nangloi in early hours of Sunday. 30-yr-old police constable is survived by his mother, wife and five-year-old son.

Dragged out of car, stabbed & shot dead — Not just road rage, says driver Shaqib’s family

Cab driver hit e-rickshaw near Red Fort following which 3 onlookers killed him. His brother questions whether people carry guns to kill and steal as he suspects something amiss.

‘My name is…’ — FIR says MP minister’s son bragged about connections as he beat up Bhopal couple

Law will take its course, says BJP state chief. Minister Narendra Patel reached police station where he refused to speak to cops & demanded presence of DCP & ACP, it is learnt

Bengaluru is fighting street crime & road rage the only way it knows — tech

Bengaluru residents are turning to tech to fight road rage and wave of street extortion scams. They claim cold, hard footage is the perfect foil to hot tempers.

Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu surrenders to serve 1-yr sentence in road rage case

Three decades ago, the cricketer-turned-politician was involved in an altercation at a Patiala traffic signal where he fatally assaulted a man.

Sidhu gets year in jail for 1988 road rage, SC cites young cricketer’s ‘edge’ over elderly victim

A two-judge bench was hearing a review petition filed by victim Gurnam Singh’s family, challenging the Supreme Court’s May 2018 order that exonerated Sidhu.

Bengaluru top cop who ‘fact-checked’ mantri on road-rage case transferred, govt denies ‘motive’

Decision comes month after IPS officer Kamal Pant took to social media to dispel rumours about communal angle to alleged road-rage incident that led to one person's murder.

Face-saving act? Why state government transferred the road rage case to CID

After several BJP leaders saw a communal angle, Bengaluru Police Commissioner tweeted a clarification. But the issue didn’t stop there. 

Abuse & harassment just part of job at Gurugram toll plaza where staffer was dragged by SUV

Operators at the Gurugram toll plaza say they decided to hire women because they believed people would not misbehave with them. They were wrong.

Sidhu’s acquittal paints a grim picture of India’s snail-paced justice system

A 2016 study, commissioned by the law ministry, says that on average a case takes anywhere between 10 and 15 years to be decided by higher courts in India.

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Postcards from Hyderabad—stories Europeans told about the city

For all their colonial underpinnings, postcards from Hyderabad also inadvertently preserve a trace of local memory: a glimpse of a street, a face, a forgotten name.

Navigating Trump’s tariffs is no child’s play. Indian toymakers are losing out on orders, enquiries

Indian toymakers are now exploring new markets, but they want govt to negotiate a trade deal with US soon, introduce incentives and subsidies to make the industry more competitive.

What is Project Sudarshan Chakra, announced by Modi from ramparts of Red Fort

The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?