Hyderabad: Police have decided to tighten the drive against drunken driving in Cyberabad following last weeks attempt by a group of youngsters to kidnap a girl from the University of Hyderabad campus. Sources in the department said a directive was issued to further intensify the drive soon after the incident. The police officials, however, pointed out that they had been conducting the drive in Cyberabad limits for some time now...
03:03 PM, Sep 03, 2012
Chennai: A 22-year-old newly-married man was murdered on Saturday night in Maduravoyal following a drunken altercation with a friend. He allegedly received over 30 cuts to his body and died at a hospital. Police sources said Arun was involved in fish cleaning work at the Vanagaram fish market. He and his friend Parthiban started work together several years ago but Arun found much more success in the business. He then...
02:31 PM, Aug 27, 2012
New Delhi: Terming drunken driving as a "menace" to society, the Supreme Court has said that persons driving vehicles under the influence of alcohol should not get away with minor punishment and fine. The apex court said the pedestrians are not safe in cities with late night parties followed by drunken driving becoming a way of life among urban elite. "Drunken driving has become a menace to our society. Everyday...
06:16 PM, Aug 04, 2012
Bangalore: "Jungle mein more nacha, kissi ne na dekha, hum jo thodi si peeke zara jhoome, hai re sab ne dekha!" (When the peacock danced in the jungle, nobody saw, but when I drank and danced a little, everybody saw) The film Madhumatis song aptly captured the capability of a drunk to attract attention through Mohammad Rafis voice and the comic antics of Johnny Walker (not the Scotch). Bangalore traffic...
12:47 PM, Jul 19, 2012
SRK's scuffle with MCA guards comes just months after his brawl with director Shirish Kunder at a pub in Mumbai. ...
11:39 PM, May 17, 2012
The actor had got into a verbal spat with Mumbai Cricket Association officials and some security personnel at the stadium on Wednesday night. ...
05:46 PM, May 17, 2012
New Delhi: An NDMC employee, sentenced to five days in jail for driving in an inebriated condition, has been spared imprisonment by a Delhi court on the condition that he would assist police at busy traffic signals for five days. Additional Sessions Judge(ASJ) SC Rajan has asked Rajpal Singh, employed with the New Delhi Municipal Corporation to report to the South West Delhi's Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) (Traffic) in...
03:30 PM, May 16, 2012
Patna: Left at the altar - alone and drunk. That was the fate of two grooms in normally patriarchal Bihar when their would-have-been brides and their families walked out on them because they were simply too sozzled. While one incident took place in Rohtas district's Khaira village, the other was in Aurangabad's Judahi village. Savita Kumari from Khaira called off the wedding when she found her groom sloshed to the...
11:31 AM, May 02, 2012
Pune: Three students pursuing their final year in hotel management from the Metropolitan Institute of Hotel Management Catering Technology vandalised three ATM centres in Hadapsar in the wee hours on Monday. The reason they gave the police later was that an ATM had cheated them. Two of them were arrested, while one met with an accident and will be arrested on discharge from hospital. The arrests were made under Sections...
05:59 PM, Apr 17, 2012
Mumbai: In a case of drunk driving in Mumbai, the 41-year-old son of former Punjab Police IG Paramjit Singh Sandhu rammed his SUV into a cyclist, injuring him. He then threatened police officials by flaunting his father's name. Police say Paramdeep was in an inebriated state at the time of the accident and was arrested for drunk, rash and negligent driving as well as for assault to deter a public...
11:19 AM, Apr 10, 2012
New Delhi: Over 1,800 people were awarded jail terms for drunken driving in the capital in the past three months, police said on Friday. "1,863 have been awarded jail terms in the past 91 days, 326 lost driving licences, 4,072 have been fined while 2,163 cases are under trial," Satyender Garg, Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic), said. Despite exhortations to open up many fronts together, he said, they have stuck...
11:41 PM, Apr 06, 2012
Mumbai: A joyride gone horribly wrong in Mumbai. Eighteen-year-old Shivani Raut lost her life in a car crash, while six others are hospitalized. Police claims one of their friends was driving the car in an inebriated state. The accident happened near an ATM, after the driver lost control and hit a tree, before ramming straight into a stationary autorikshaw. Shivani Raut, along with 5 friends, was on a joyride in...
09:17 PM, Mar 31, 2012
Mumbai: A suspected case of drunken driving in Mumbai left an 18-year-old girl dead. The victim and her friends, all in their 20s, were in a speeding Hyundai Getz which rammed into a tree on Friday night. The girl, who was taken to a hospital in a critical condition later succumbed to her injuries. The incident took place in the western suburb of Santa Cruz. Four others - three boys...
12:30 PM, Mar 31, 2012
Mumbai: Nearly five people were injured in a car accident in Mumbai late on Friday night when the driver of a speeding Hyundai Getz lost control over the vehicle and rammed it into a tree. There were three boys and two girls in the car. One of the girls is said to be in a critical state. The incident happened in the western suburb of Santa Cruz. The Mumbai police...
11:19 AM, Mar 31, 2012
New Delhi: After a series of fatal accidents due to overspeeding in the city, Delhi Police is now mulling ways to jail those who drive their vehicles above the prescribed speed limit. "We will propose that those who drive at speeds which are excessive should be detained and their driving licences seized and suspended, based on photographic evidence by the courts, apart from fines etc. "Over speeding also has jail...
06:11 PM, Mar 20, 2012
New Delhi: A 12-year-old boy was shot dead by a drunk Delhi police constable, who opened fire during a marriage ceremony in the capital, police said Monday. The incident took place around 11.15 pm on Sunday at Dhaka village in north Delhi's Mukherjee Nagar area. Tarun Chauhan, a class 7th student studying in a government school, received a bullet in his chest when the accused opened celebratory fire at the...
07:18 PM, Mar 12, 2012
London: Titanic's captain was drunk when the ill-fated ocean liner carrying 2228 people hit an iceberg and sank, a previously unseen account by a survivor has claimed. Captain Edward Smith was apparently seen drinking in the saloon bar of the doomed ship in the run-up to the catastrophic collision that led to its sinking on April 15, 1912. History books record that the white-whiskered skipper was woken in his cabin...
01:26 PM, Mar 09, 2012
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11:37 PM, Mar 02, 2012
A day after government's tough stand on drunk driving, mixed reactions have come in from across the country. ...
10:30 PM, Mar 02, 2012
Mumbai: A sloshed female ticket checker (TC) in the Central Railway (CR) has been accused of misbehaving with commuters at Ambernath railway station on Friday night. The primary medical report confirmed that she had consumed liquor. Radha Tomar (34) created a ruckus in a local train and at platform three at Ambernath, commuters said. According to RPF sources, she was off her duty at 9 pm at Dombivli, when she...
01:38 PM, Feb 27, 2012
