| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
According to the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, between 1 January 2019 and 31 December 2023, 18.14 crore (181.4 million) traffic challans were issued, bringing ₹12,631 crore in fines to the government treasury.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
A day earlier, in an accident on the Agra–Lucknow Expressway in Unnao, five people travelling in a car died; in that crash too the driver had dozed off.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
This week a double-decker bus travelling from Lucknow to Noida crashed on the Yamuna Expressway, killing four people.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
On the Yamuna Expressway (Delhi–Agra), 44% of road accidents between 2012 and 2023 were caused by drivers dozing off.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
In one recent year (2024, as stated), road accidents caused by drunk driving in India killed a total of 3,204 people and injured 846 — meaning around eight people die every day in India because someone is driving drunk.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
Another major allegation in this incident is that the driver was addicted to alcohol, which is why he dozed off at the wheel.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
The local administration has formed an eight-member team to investigate the incident (the anchor questions whether such an inquiry serves any purpose).
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
While the sleeper bus was burning, several passengers tried to escape through the emergency door.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
On the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway, a sleeper bus travelling from Haridwar to Indore caught fire after colliding with a truck, and eight people were burned alive.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
On the Delhi-Agra Yamuna Expressway, 44% of road accidents between 2012 and 2023 were caused by drivers dozing off.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
Per the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, 18.14 crore traffic challans were issued between January 1, 2019 and December 31, 2023, yielding ₹12,631 crore in fines, yet 21.83 lakh road accidents still occurred in the same period.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
In 2024, drunk driving caused 8,277 road accidents in India, killing 3,204 people and injuring 846 — meaning roughly eight people die every day because of drunk drivers.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
The burned bus is registered under Indore's Hans Travels but its registration and fitness certificate were issued in a remote part of Arunachal Pradesh — allegedly to dodge proper inspection and fraudulently obtain an all-India permit.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
A Haridwar-to-Indore sleeper bus caught fire after colliding with a truck on the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway, killing eight people who were burned alive; the anchor asserts dishonesty (tax-evading cargo), not just the accident, killed them.
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| Rajat Sharma |
2026-06-29 |
The Delhi government today announced a new EV policy worth ₹15,000 crore, effective July 1, 2026 to March 31, 2030, under which EVs get road-tax and registration-fee waivers and subsidies, and from January 1 next year registration of petrol, diesel and CNG three-wheelers will stop.
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| Rajat Sharma |
2026-06-26 |
India's first hydrogen train underwent its final high-speed trial today on the Delhi–Jind section, running at 120 km/h under the supervision of RDSO's technical team.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-25 |
Per the Haryana Institute of Public Administration, 60% of Delhi-NCR buildings cannot withstand an earthquake as powerful as Venezuela's, and Delhi's municipal corporation told the High Court that 80% of the city's buildings would be unsafe in a quake.
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| Rajat Sharma |
2026-06-23 |
Most coaching institutes and commercial buildings across the country have no fire safety arrangements and no emergency exit provisions.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-15 |
After the Zojila tunnel opens, travel from Ganderbal to Kargil will drop from 3 hours to just 20 minutes, and the Baltal-to-Meenamarg distance will shrink from 40 km to 14 km; it will also let the army move troops and materiel faster to the China and Pakistan borders.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-15 |
The Zojila tunnel connecting the Kashmir valley to Ladakh achieved its final breakthrough blast today, becoming Asia's longest bi-directional tunnel, situated at 11,578 feet above sea level.
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