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Srinagar, Jul 3 (PTI) The annual Amarnath Yatra began on Thursday with the first batches of pilgrims setting off from the twin base camps in Baltal and Nunwan towards the 3880-metre-high cave shrine in the south Kashmir Himalayas, which houses a naturally formed ice-lingam, officials said. The yatra started early morning from the twin tracks -- the traditional 48-km Nunwan-Pahalgam route and the 14-km Baltal route. The batches of pilgrims, including men, women and sadhus, left from the Nunwan ...Read More >
Mumbai: Maharashtra transport minister Pratap Sarnaik, under an alias, booked a Rapido bike on Wednesday to test whether the service was still being offered despite it being illegal due to the lack of proper regulations for bike taxis. The biker, unaware of the identity of his customer, rode right into the midst of transport department officials who caught him red handed. However, Sarnaik directed officials not to register a case against the bike driver as he was merely an employee, and instead ...Read More >
The Kerala Motor Vehicles Department (MVD) has initiated steps to eliminate regular transport checkposts and introduce virtual models at the state borders. The state government has granted permission to entrust the Uralungal Labour Contract Co-operative Society (ULCCS) with the task of developing a software module, dashboard system, control room, and mobile app as part of the implementation of virtual check posts. The system will be implemented by utilising the existing infrastructure of the GS ...Read More >
Mumbai: Senior BJP leader Ravindra Chavan is all set to become the next Maharashtra BJP chief as he filed his nomination for the post of party's state president on Monday. Mr. Chavan presented the nomination forms to Union Minister Kiran Rijiju, who has been appointed as a central observer for the elections by the BJP. Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and outgoing party chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule were present on this occasion. With no other nomination being filed for the post, M ...Read More >
Bengaluru: In a bid to check overcharging by autorickshaw drivers following the bike-taxi ban, an enforcement drive across the city Monday saw nearly 300 cases of violations and over 100 autos being seized.As complaints of daylight robbery by both regular and app-based auto drivers pour in, the crackdown, directed by transport minister Ramalinga Reddy, involved 22 enforcement teams operating from early morning till evening. The drive covered both the city centre and outer areas including Devanah ...Read More >
Bengaluru, Feb 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) In a major Regional Transport Office operation, 30 luxury cars, including Ferrari and Porsche, were seized for alleged tax evasion in Bengaluru. The seizure of luxury cars is done for non-payment of taxes by the owners, an RTO official said on Monday. The seized vehicles were registered in different states but illegally driven in Karnataka. This operation is expected to recover around Rs 3 crore in taxes. Luxury cars, including Maserati, Ferrari, Porsche, Ran ...Read More >
A 55-year-old man, who was among the several persons injured in the BEST bus accident in Kurla area here, died on Monday morning, taking the death toll to eight, a civic official said. The electric bus, hired by the civic-run Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) undertaking on wet-lease basis, ploughed into a crowd and fatally knocked down seven persons and injured 42 others on a crowded road in Kurla area on December 9. Several vehicles were also damaged in the incident. One of ...Read More >
Kurla BEST accident: CCTV visuals from inside the BEST bus that killed seven people in the Kurla area of Mumbai show the driver Sanjay More collecting two backpacks from the cabin and jumping out of a broken window after the deadly accident. Several video clips of the bus footage with a duration of 50 seconds to 1.04 seconds are going viral on social media, in which the passengers are seen panicking. An electric bus went out of control hitting vehicles and pedestrians on Monday night on a busy ...Read More >
Mumbai: A tragic bus accident in Mumbai's Kurla area on Monday night resulted in seven deaths and left 42 others injured. Disturbing CCTV footage from inside the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) electric bus has surfaced, showing chaotic scenes as the driver, Sanjay More, attempted to flee after the vehicle veered out of control. Notably, earlier a preliminary report from the Regional Transport Office (RTO) confirmed that there was no technical fault with the bus, suggesting th ...Read More >
Mumbai: The death toll in Monday's BEST bus crash rose to seven and the number of injured to 42 even as the driver, Sanjay More, booked for culpable homicide not amounting to murder, claimed he had noticed a spark and mistakenly accelerated the bus instead of applying brakes. Seeking More's custody, police said they want to investigate if he intentionally used the vehicle as a weapon. The bus on Route 332 had accelerated on a congested 200m stretch near Kurla station hitting vehicles and pedest ...Read More >
Mumbai: The death toll in the BEST bus accident in Mumbai has risen to seven, officials on Tuesday said as experts inspected the wet leased vehicle to ascertain if it had any mechanical fault. As many as 42 other persons were also rushed to various hospitals after being injured in the incident on the SG Barve Marg in Kurla (West) at around 9.30 pm on Monday when the bus dashed into pedestrians and some vehicles after its driver lost control over the wheels, they said. Maharashtra Chief Ministe ...Read More >
Alappuzha: The Motor Vehicle Department has submitted a report on the death of five medical students in a car accident at Kalarkode. In the filed to the Transport Commissioner, Alappuzha RTO mentions four reasons for the accident: the presence of water on the road from the rain, inadequate lighting conditions, the driver's lack of experience, the age of the vehicle, and the fact that 11 people were travelling in a car designed for only seven passengers. According to the report, it had only bee ...Read More >
Mumbai, December 3: Three people including the car driver have been arrested for allegedly dragging a biker rider on the bonnet of the car for 2 kilometres in Maharashtra's Pune, a police officer said on Tuesday. The incident unfolded on December 1 in Pune's Pimpri Chinchwad following an altercation with the car driver, the official said. Pune Police Inspector Ashok Shirke said that car driver along with his two friends have been arrested and booked under section 103 of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. ...Read More >
Balasore: 9 e-buses lie unused in Balasore. Will they ever serve the city? This is the question the intelligentsia of Odisha's Balasore district wants to ask to the government as well as district administration. Here is a report. In 2017, 15 city buses were brought to Balasore at a cost of 8 crore rupees in the name of providing city bus services to the people. But the then district administration or the municipal officers probably had no idea about the city's roads. It is true that buses plied ...Read More >
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