Immediately after being sworn as chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Omar Abdullah on Wednesday ordered the police chief not to create a “green corridor” or stop traffic to avoid inconvenience to the people when he or his ministers move anywhere by road.
During the festival this year, for the first time pandal hoppers benefited from the recently-launched state government’s Yatri Sathi app got cab services in West Burdwan district.
Calcutta High Court on Friday questioned the state about the rationale behind promulgating such an order during the pujas.
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi on Thursday announced the development of an innovative method that uses traffic data to monitor the health of ageing bridges in real time.
An elderly man and a two-year-old girl were killed in two separate road accidents due to reckless driving. The incidents led to agitation and road blocks in the respective areas.
Traffic was stalled and disrupted on the Gangotri-Yamunotri National Highway due to the falling and piling up of debris from landslides in the region
Traffic was affected after a 70-metre stretch of the National Highway was damaged due to rainfall near Gauchar town in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand on Monday, officials said.
Electric vehicles constitute a miniscule 0.8 per cent of the total number of vehicles registered in the country, despite government pushing for greener vehicles since 2015.
Traffic has been suspended and the Yamunotri pilgrimage halted as boulders continue to fall at many places on the Yamunotri Highway for the last three days as persistent rains continue to wreak havoc in the Uttarkashi district of Uttarakhand, officials said.
As per Delhi Flood Control Department, the water level in Yamuna was recorded at 206.02 metres at 8 am on Sunday against 207.58 m yesterday morning.
