-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Speedbreakers probably take more lives in India than they save. Road transport ministry data reveals that these 'safeguards' are the cause of 30 crashes daily, killing at least nine people a day. That's the average for two years since the government started collecting data on speedbreakers in 2014. Last year's figures are yet to be published, but government sources say they are likely to be similar. In...
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No coordination between blood banks and hospitals, 6 lakh litres of blood wasted in five years -Sumitra Debroy
-The Times of India MUMBAI: In the last five years, over 28 lakh units of blood and its components were discarded by banks across India, exposing serious loopholes in the nation's blood banking system. If calculated in litres, the cumulative wastage of 6% translates to over 6 lakh litres —a volume enough to fill up 53 water tankers. India faces, on average, a shortfall of 3 million units of blood annually. Lack of...
More »410 people died on Indian roads every day last year -Dipak K Dash
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: At least 410 people lost their lives daily in road Accidents across India last year compared to 400 lives in 2015. On the other hand, the rate of rise in fatalities came down in 2016 compared to the previous year. Data accessed by TOI showed nearly 1.5 lakh people were killed in Accidents last year compared to 1.46 lakh in 2015. India has recorded the maximum deaths in...
More »Indian trains smash records in running late, 800% jump in number of trains arriving more than 15 hours late
-JantaKaReporter.com Union Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu has often been dubbed by his criticis as a Twitter minister because of his prolific use of the microblogging site to resolve minor inconveniences of passengers. However, on major fronts, his department has made no progress at all. In some cases, the performance of Indian trains have alarmingly worsened under Suresh Prabhu as the minister. The number of Accidents has risen with total losses of lives also...
More »'53 killed daily on UP roads in 2016' -Dipak K Dash
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Roads in Uttar Pradesh claimed around 53 lives every day in 2016, accounting for 19,320 deaths in the year, the highest among all states since the central government started compiling details of road crashes at the national level. Admitting that rising road deaths was a major concern for the state police, UP's additional DGP (traffic) Anil Kumar Agarwal told TOI that road Accidents killed more people...
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