-The Telegraph Bhubaneswar: Your smartphone has one more job to do - spot and alert authorities with visual evidence of traffic violations. From next month, one can click photographs of traffic violators on their mobile phone and send it to the authorities using a special app that the Regional Transport Office (RTO), Bhubaneswar-II, has decided to come up with. The app will help residents here to directly report incidents of traffic violations to...
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Accidents by licence-less drivers jumped 54% in 2 years -Dipak Kumar Dash
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Accidents caused by drivers without licences increased by 54% between 2012 and 2014, according to data provided by the police departments of all states and Union Territories. In absolute numbers, the accident count went up from 25,463 to 39,314. In the same period, drivers younger than 18 caused between 19,000 and 21,500 accidents. Though the official count is evidently much less than actual numbers, it reflects...
More »‘One-third of Delhi households paid bribe last year’ -Rukmini S
-The Hindu Corruption in LPG distribution had increased the most, while police was the agency most likely to require a bribe. Nearly half of Delhi’s respondents in a survey on corruption said it had decreased in the State government, but a third of households reported having had to pay a bribe in the last 12 months. Respondents felt that corruption in the distribution of LPG had increased the most, while the police...
More »25,000 fake Aadhaar numbers detected till August -Christin Mathew Philip
-The Times of India CHENNAI: At a time when the Centre is planning to link Aadhaar for government schemes and a large number of people are lining up for enrolment, an RTI application has revealed that the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has identified more than 25,000 duplicate Aadhaar numbers in the country till August. Vinod Ranganathan of onlineRTI.com, who filed the application, said he had sought state-wise number of dubious/fake...
More »Aadhaar now most widely held ID with 92cr holders -Rajeev Deshpande
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Aadhaar card is now the most widely held identification document in the country with a voluntary enrolment of 92 crore people. It is also perhaps the sole ID for many of its holders, including many families below the poverty line. In comparison, 5.7 crore people have passports, 17 crore people PAN cards, 60 crore voter ID cards, 15 crore ration cards and 17.3 crore driving...
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