-Livemint.com 44% of derailments between 2012-13 and 2016-17 were due to failure of tracks, fittings There have been nine incidents of train derailments in the past one month. The spate of Accidents has increased anxiety among passengers and also generated a lot of political heat. What are the concrete facts though? Have train derailments been increasing? What is causing these Accidents? Is it sabotage, human error or dilapidated infrastructure? A NITI Aayog discussion...
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Govt is working on simplifying labour laws: Santosh Gangwar
-PTI NEW DELHI: The government is committed to labour reforms and simplification in the related laws to safeguard workers' interest, Labour and Employment Minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar said on Sunday. Listing a slew of steps to protect workers' interest, the minister said provisions have been made in the Employees' Compensation (Amendment) Act, 2017 to increase the penalty for its contravention from Rs 5,000 to Rs 50,000, which is extendable to Rs 1...
More »Using mobile while on wheel kills 2,100 in a year -Dipak K Dash
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The use of mobile phones while driving claimed 2,138 lives last year while faulty speed-breakers, potholes and under-construction roads accounted for 26 deaths on the roads every day, according to data released by the transport ministry. The maximum deaths due to use of mobile phones while driving were reported from UP, followed by Haryana. Delhi reported two deaths while Maharashtra registered 172 fatalities on this account....
More »Delhi safer this year; murder, rape down
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Crimes against women have declined from last year, figures released by Delhi Police show. Till August 15 this year, 1,335 cases of rape have been reported. The figure for the corresponding period last year was 1,426--6.4% higher than this year. Similarly, for molestation, last year's figure was 2,738; this year, it has come down to 2,138. Not just crimes against women, but the overall crime rate has...
More »In 2016-17, India's derailment deaths are highest in a decade -Chaitanya Mallapur
-Scroll.in/ IndiaSpend.com No one was killed when the Kaifiyat Express went off the tracks in UP on Wednesday. But 458 people have died in train derailments over the past ten years. India’s death toll from train derailments in 2016-’17 is now the highest it has been in a decade, according to an IndiaSpend analysis of data tabled in the upper house of parliament, the Rajya Sabha, on March 31, 2017 and...
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