Chennai: Residents of Nanganallur can breathe a sigh of relief as Greater Chennai Corporation has allocated 29.57 crore to acquire land for a direct link road from Nanganallur Fifth Main Road to the Pazhavanthangal subway to ease traffic congestion and reduce accidents in the area.Pazhavanthangal, which falls under Alandur zone, depends heavily on the subway for access to Grand Southern Trunk Road....
Mumbai: Bombay high court has directed three housing societies in Andheri (east) to forthwith remove three structures obstructing the opening of a development plan road connecting Sahar Road and Sai Mandir Road.Justice Milind Jadhav on Monday said the DP Road is bound to "ameliorate and redress congestion and legitimate grievances" of residents of nearby areas who will benefit not only in terms of...
DHARMAPURI: Four people died in a multi-vehicle collision involving a Taurus truck, a parcel truck, a car, a minivan and a two‐wheeler on Thoppur ghat road on the Salem-Bengaluru National Highway in Dharmapuri district on Tuesday. The deceased have been identified as Taurus truck driver N Munusamy, 43, from Namakkal district, S Arunagiri, 47, and his sister Kalaiarasi, 42, of Mathemangalam in...
Kolkata: Lakhs of Behala residents along with commuters from South 24 Parganas—headed for Maheshtala, Amtala, and Diamond Harbour—faced a harrowing time travelling to work and back on Monday due to the shutdown of the Taratala Flyover for load testing. The shutdown, which began on Saturday evening, is slated to continue until Tuesday midnight. Such was the inconvenience that an IT employee,...
Chennai: Traffic was disrupted on the Minjur–Vandalur Outer Ring Road after a tanker lorry transporting liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) overturned when the driver lost control of the vehicle on Monday morning.The lorry was dispatched to Kadapa in Andhra Pradesh from a company in Athipattu Pudhu Nagar.As the tanker reached a curve on Minjur–Vandalur Outer Ring Road, the driver, Murugan from Tenkasi,...
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...
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