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Ladakh fines four tourists Rs 2 lakh and seizes their Thar, Creta and Fortuner; here is what they didLadakh's Wildlife Department has fined four tourists Rs 50,000 each, totalling Rs 2 lakh, for illegally driving into protected areas includ...
New rules classify highway project failures as catastrophic; to affect contractor ratings & future contractsNew rules define catastrophic failures in highway projects. These failures will impact contractor ratings and future contract awards. Incid...
New 40mph law hits October 1 — break it and you will pay a $425 priceMaryland Governor Wes Moore has approved fresh legislation to expand speed camera deployment and increase penalties for speeding. Cameras c...
International Road Federation flags safety non-adherence in road projects in IndiaThe International Road Federation (IRF) has raised concerns about the alarming rise in fatal crashes at road construction zones across Indi...
Repeat offenders beware: Three or more violations & you could lose your driving license in DelhiDelhi may soon implement stricter traffic regulations, penalizing habitual traffic offenders with license cancellation. Approximately 178,0...
Indian roads claim lives equivalent to Chandigarh's population in accidents, but penalties remain milder than murderIndia witnessed a high number of road accident deaths between 2014 and 2023. The number of deaths is more than the population of Chandigarh...
Drive some sense in roads to perditionA surge in the number of road accidents in India is a cause for worry. Data reveal that driver error is the most common reason. Poor road d...
Not just common man, Kerala MPs, MLAs too under AI camera's egalitarian lens; booked for traffic violationsThe government also said that the AI cameras have been instrumental in bringing down the number of road accidents and the resultant fatalit...
Delhi-Meerut highway accident: Stop the stupidity of 'road roulette'India, which has the world's highest number of road accidents, is still far from reaching its commitment to reduce fatalities by half by 20...
Take a U-turn on the road to perditionThere was an absolute reduction of 18.46% in accidents compared to 2019, owing largely to Covid-induced lockdowns and restrictions. However...
Fines are fine: States opposing the penalties in the amended Motor Vehicles ActStates with non-BJP governments like Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Kerala, Odisha and West Bengal want to put the law on hold
Experts see rise in motor insurance after passing of new vehicle actNational Insurance Co Chairman K Sanath Kumar said that about half of the vehicles run in India, especially two-wheelers, are not covered u...
Cabinet okays new Motor Bill: Get ready to shell out upto Rs 4,000 for overspeedingThe provisions also include that guardian/owner will be deemed to be guilty in case of road offence by juveniles while registration of the ...
Automakers may face Rs 100 crore fine for violating safety rulesThe panel has agreed to framing strict and steeper penalties that include imprisonment for offences like driving by minors, crossing speed ...
Government to spend Rs 11k crore on road infra to check road accidentsIndia has highest number of roads fatalities in the world with one person being killed in road mishap every four minutes.
Road safety bill: States’ power not diluted in final transport draftThe change made in consultation with the law ministry is to avoid creation of “any wrong impression” that states’ authority is getting dilu...
Transport Ministry mulls safety push for road makersSafety could soon earn road developers brownie points, with the government mulling ways of offering financial and other incentives in a bid...
Road safety authority in the worksA draft bill put out by the ministry on Saturday has proposed a penalty of Rs 5 lakh and imprisonment for faulty manufacturing design.
New Motor Vehicle Bill to hold government bodies responsible for bad roadsRoad transport minister Nitin Gadkari has already said that a stronger law on the lines of UK will be brought before the parliament.
- Government expects Motor Bill to be passed in Budget session
The government today said it expects the Motor Vehicle Amendment Bill which proposes hefty penalty for traffic rule violations, including d...