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Wednesday, November 26, 2025
TopicTraffic violations

Topic: traffic violations

Tattling to bosses of traffic violators won’t solve Bengaluru’s gridlock. It will hurt jobs

Bengaluru police's answer to the city’s infamous traffic troubles is naming, shaming, and treating citizens like unruly children. It’s passing the buck and sidestepping the core issues.

Online glitches see Delhi traffic challan dues pile up, police plan collection counters

Police personnel could be deployed to collect fines for 8 hours on Saturdays and Sundays, but plan and its date of commencement are not final yet.

Delhi Police collected Rs 18.98 crore for traffic violation in first two months of lockdown

Union Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy in the Lok Sabha said the amount was collected against 1,29,932 notices issued, while 13,15,059 notices are pending payment.

New motor vehicle law won’t change, states can decide penalty amounts: Nitin Gadkari

In interview to ThePrint, Nitin Gadkari says new law not aimed at generating revenue, but to check road accidents and deaths caused due to violation of traffic rules.

Can steep fines & jail time under Motor Vehicles Bill be enforced and deter people?

The proposed Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill 2019 seeks to levy prohibitive penalty and stricter punishments for road-related offences.

On Camera

New labour codes make India’s workforce competitive with China—and build Viksit Bharat

By consolidating 29 laws into four codes, compliance is streamlined and regulations are simplified, improving “ease of doing business”. This is bound to improve investor confidence.

Vehicles, TVs, mobile phones—PM EAC report shows rural India is catching up with urban consumers

Rural ownership of motor vehicles jumped from 19 percent in 2011-2012 to 59 percent in 2023-2024, while urban rose from 40 percent to 68 percent during the same time period, study by two members of PM-EAC says.

General secrets from frozen peaks: A Kargil veteran reveals what politically correct writers left out

At the Jindal Literature Festival, Maj Gen (Retd) Lakhwinder Singh reveals secrets from 25 years ago, speaking about the decision that outwitted Musharraf and changed the course of the war. 

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.