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- 'Feels like crossing Strait of Hormuz': Noida Sector 51–52 Metro route becomes daily nightmare for commuters. Watch viral videoThe narrow pathway between Noida Sector 51 Metro Station and Noida Sector 52 Metro Station has become a daily challenge for commuters in th...
- Amid Harish Rana euthanasia case, how a pothole 200 km away gave a brain-dead woman in Bareilly a new lease of lifeAt a time when the Supreme Court gave permission to Harish Rana for passive euthanasia, a woman in Bareilly got a new lease of life in an u...
- Pothole deaths rise 53% in 5 years; UP accounts for over half of 9,400 fatalitiesPothole-related road accident deaths have increased by 53% over the past five years, with 9,438 fatalities recorded nationwide between 2020...
- Self-healing roads may soon be a reality: NHAIThe technology allows asphalt, used to build roads, to self-heal and address the issue of potholes, one of the key reasons for road acciden...
- Tamil Nadu: Woman techie dies after her two-wheeler hits pothole, run over by truckA Chennai software engineer died after being run over by a truck as she lost control after allegedly hitting a pothole on the road, informe...
- Bengaluru car driver kills motorbike pillion rider while attempting to navigate potholesThe driver of the car was attempting to maneuver potholes in the Attur Main Road when the vehicle got out of hand and killed Shah, accordin...
- Another pothole death: Bengaluru woman dies after being hit by busA woman who met with an accident while trying to avoid a pothole on a road in the Rajajinagar area of Bengaluru succumbed to her wounds.
- Bengaluru man dresses up as Lord Yama to protest bad roadsResidents of Anjanapura in south Bengaluru invited 'Lord Yama', the god of death, to travel along a 13-km stretch of road, and a video of t...
- Kiran Majumdar-Shaw slams poor condition of roads in BengaluruThe debate on poor infrastructure, especially the dismal condition of roads in Bengaluru city, which is known as the Silicon Valley of Indi...
- Uttar Pradesh roads as bad as state's law & order and health system: MayawatiBSP chief Mayawati said the condition of the roads in Uttar Pradesh has become so bad that people are unable to understand if there is a po...
- Pothole deaths: Nitin Gadkari warns road contractors of dire consequencesThe minister said the rate of road construction was at 2 km a day when the government took over, but is now it is 28 km a day and added tha...
- Supreme Court takes note of 3,597 deaths due to pothole-related accidents in 2017"We are surprised that state governments have disputed the data sent by them to the MoRTH," the bench said, adding "the views of the states...
- MNS workers dig up footpath in Mumbai to protest against potholesThis comes a day after some MNS members attacked a government office in Navi Mumbai, to vent their ire over pothole-related deaths in the s...
- Potholes killed 3,597 across India in 2017, terror 803The ‘pothole deaths’ have stirred a debate on inefficiency of and corruption in municipal and road-owning authorities with the government l...
- 15 Days to fix 15,000 potholes: Will it last?A senior officer in the Road Engineering Division, who did not want to be named, told this reporter that the immediate concern is to fix th...
- 'Bad roads don't cause accidents always but negligent driving does'At least a two-wheeler rider dies in Bengaluru every day. And, the police attribute it to “rash and negligent riding“ even when poor road i...
- Road agencies may be booked for deaths caused by potholesRoad owning and maintaining agencies maybe penalised and booked under Indian Penal Code for fatalities caused due to poor road condition su...
- Bad roads killed over 10,000 people in 2015; 3,416 deaths due to potholesAlthough the overall fatalities under these categories had come down marginally from 2014, the number of people killed due to potholes rose...
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