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KOLKATA: Durga Puja is over this year but organisers have been busy preparing for the Red Road Durga Puja carnival, the spectacular event on Red Road where over 100 puja organisers will strut with the idols and tableaux on Friday afternoon.While some members have been busy practising their dance moves, others are going through the finer details of the attire that everybody will be wearing at the...

CHENNAI: The city, which topped the state's fatal road accidents chart for years has dropped to 17th position in the latest official district-wise accident analysis report. The number of deaths in Chennai this year (up to August) dipped to 332, against the usual number of close to 700. Improved health services and more congested roads are cited as primary reasons for the drop in fatalities.R Sudhakar,...

CHENNAI: Seven of a family, including two children, died in a road accident when a lorry rammed a car, in which they were travelling, in Pakkiripalayam bypass road near Chengam in Tamil Nadu's Tiruvannamalai district. A lone survivor, a woman, is undergoing treatment at the government hospital in Tiruvannamalai.One of the deceased, identified as Sathish, from Tumkur in Karnataka, along with his wife,...

NEW DELHI: Appreciated for being brave enough to distribute ration during the peak of Covid but facing the ire of the common man for forcing them to wear masks in public, the Civil Defence volunteers have taken everything gamely. However, working without compensation is testing their patience. Engaged now in large numbers as bus marshals to oversee passenger safety, the volunteers had to resort to...

MUMBAI: Road crash-related fatalities in the city reduced by 35% with 176 deaths reported between January and September as compared to 272 in the same period last year.Traffic police have attributed the drop to strict enforcement and improved infrastructure around 'black spots' or accident-prone locations. But with high-speed corridors like the Mumbai Coastal Road and Mumbai Trans-Harbour Link to be...

MUMBAI: State transport commissioner Vivek Bhimanwar said that the state plans to reduce fatalities by 50% much before the Centre's deadline of 2030. He announced that the motor vehicle department in Maharashtra was now conferred with the SKOCH award for 'Multi-sectoral road safety improvement strategy'.The award has been conferred in recognition of the road safety measures undertaken in the past year....

CHENNAI: A software engineer was fatally run over by a bus when he was trying to cross the road at Jafferkhanpet in Chennai on Wednesday morning.The Guindy traffic investigation wing (TIW) police said the man, Rishi Gautham, was a native of Dharmapuri and working in company in Taramani. On Wednesday morning, he returned from Dharmapuri on a bus and got down at Jafferkhanpet. While he was crossing the...

CHENNAI: The Greater Chennai Corporation has repaired 252 out of 285 roads in Madipakkam that were dug up by Chennai Metropolitan and Sewerage Supply Board.Out of the 55.3 km of road stretch dug up, 16.4 km of roads have been fixed so far, said city corporation commissioner Dr J Radhakrishnan, who on Wednesday returned for inspections after being down with dengue.He said 106 roads got a blacktopping...

KALYAN: Hearing a PIL filed by an activist on ongoing illegal construction on government and private lands in Kalyan, the Bombay High Court has directed Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC) to demolish the unauthorised construction in Kalyan especially on Kalyan-Haji Malang road and also directed KDMC commissioner to personally look into it.The HC has also asked KDMC to initiate disciplinary...

THANE: Two persons stabbed a 24-year-old truck driver to death in an incident of road rage in Maharashtra's Thane district. The incident took place after their two-wheeler rammed into the heavy vehicle in Kalyan taluka in the early hours of Monday, police said on Tuesday. The police have arrested Anjala Liyat Khan (23) and Mohammad Anans Asfaque Sheikh (21).The victim Bholakumar Mahanto and his friend...