Bangalore: The watch tells you that you are late. There is sparse traffic and police are hidden from sight. A snap decision makes you scoot off. Unlike days when you could get away, traffic police have adopted technology to curb the menace of traffic offenders. Fifty people sitting in a plush room in Ashoknagar traffic police station keep an eye on every commuter in the city through 175 (another 14...
03:28 PM, Jul 28, 2012
In a horrific incident in Patna, a young girl was gangraped by her boyfriend and his classmates. And what's worse was that the heinous crime was shot on a camera and circulated on MMS. Below is the full transcript of CNN-IBN Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose's chat with experts over the issue: Sagarika Ghose: Hi there. Good evening. Everyday seems to bring a new crime against women, rapes, sexual assault and...
11:04 AM, Jul 27, 2012
Mumbai: What do you expect an airlines priority to be after discovering that one of its recent flights experienced turbulence, leading to damage to the plane and injuries to passengers, and that the pilot allegedly did not inform the company or aviation regulator and instead ordered crewmembers to stay mum? Find out who leaked the information to the media. After MiD DAYs expos on July 24 (Maharaja of cover-ups), national...
02:03 PM, Jul 25, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Our roads are simply not the safest places for pedestrians, it seems. As many as 3,272 pedestrians lost their lives in the state in road accidents in a matter of 18 months. This shocking data was presented in the Assembly on Monday by Home Minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan. In all, 21,665 pedestrians were also injured in road accidents during 2010-2011 and between January 1 and June 30, 2012, Thiruvanchoor said...
01:35 PM, Jul 25, 2012
Bangalore: When it comes to crimes against women, the other parts of the state are not lagging behind the capital, which stood second after Delhi in the NCRB report released recently. In the last five years the number of crimes against women " atrocities, outraging the modesty of women, murder, chain snatching, etc. " has doubled in Karnataka. According to the NCRB report, Karnataka stands 10th in the country in...
10:59 AM, Jul 25, 2012
Bangalore: Pepper sprays, stun guns, telescopic batons and knives are a few things that Bangaloreans have been getting their hands on in the last one week. The recent Guwahati molestation incident seems to have spurred the trend. Many people now pick up a can of pepper spray from their nearest chemist, and several others have started enrolling in self-defence classes. The Guwahati incident has instilled fear among single working women,...
12:22 PM, Jul 23, 2012
In the aftermath of the Guwahati molestation incident, CPM leader Brinda Karat criticised the National Commission for Women (NCW) for revealing the name of the victim and mishandling the whole issue. She also said that the government is soft on acting against honour related crimes perhaps because of the vote bank politics. "Because these so called Khap panchayat produce votes, where they need them," said Karat. Below is the full...
10:28 PM, Jul 22, 2012
In the aftermath of the Guwahati molestation incident, CPM leader Brinda Karat has blamed Home Minister P Chidambaram for failing to modernise laws for safety of women, saying that he has been so involved in vote-bank politics as to be insensitive to crimes against women. Speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate, the CPM politburo member criticised the way the UPA government had handled issues concerning women's security. Below is...
08:04 AM, Jul 22, 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
Mumbai: Much of India is outraged by the acts of a mob that molested a teenage girl on a Guwahati street on July 10. What is a greater outrage is the fact that such episodes keep repeating themselves regularly all over the country. While the depravity of the wrongdoers is certainly reprehensible, what has contributed to this nightmare is the fact that more often than not " apart from knee-jerk...
01:25 PM, Jul 16, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Three persons died and as many as 20 persons, including two children, were injured in six separate road accidents in the district on Saturday. The deceased were identified as Dr Ramachandran Nair, 68, of Jagathy, Shiji, 32, of Chirayinekeezhu and Kumaravelu, 90, of Parassala. Dr Ramachandran Nair was killed when the car in which he was travelling from the city to Kadakkavur collided with a KSRTC bus, which was...
12:56 PM, Jul 16, 2012
Bangalore: With the city witnessing an increasing rise in incidents of crime, Bangaloreans are now liking Fred Eaglesmith for his hit song, Time to put something... Between me and the sun, When the talking is over, Its time to get a gun. Professional and circumstantial reasons have forced many Bangaloreans to turn to the gun and weapon training for self protection. So these days certain celebrities, realtors, businessmen, security personals...
12:39 PM, Jul 16, 2012
Hyderabad: Fire accidents have become a regular feature in the twin cities and the latest one at the Jubilee Hall on Sunday, has had officials in a tizzy. Officials at the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporations (GHMC) fire prevention wing admitted that most of the historical structures and monuments have neither fire safety measures in place nor the required no objection certificate. The threat of fire is not only to new...
01:09 PM, Jul 02, 2012
Hyderabad: The monsoon may be playing truant now but it is only a matter of time before the State capital gets its share of the rain pain. The ubiquitous, uncovered manholes are among the major problems the civic authorities will have to tackle in the next couple of months. However, it appears that many of the manhole covers in the city are missing! Stolen, in fact by insensitive public, according...
12:02 PM, Jun 25, 2012
Aviation Safety Consultant Captain Mohan Ranganathan says the army official must be penalisd. ...
10:37 AM, Jun 07, 2012
Pune: Captain Anil Gadgil and his wife Kavita Gadgil have set up a flying school with India's first mobile flight simulator. They took up the task after losing their 27-year-old son Abhijit in a MIG-21 crash. But Abhijit's death didn't dampen the spirits of his heart-broken parents. Together they set up the Abhijit Air Safety Foundation in 2002 to ensure that other promising lives do not meet the same fate....
09:53 AM, Jun 06, 2012
New Delhi: The West Bengal government has been quick to cash in on Kolkata Knight Riders' maiden IPL triumph organising a grand felicitation ceremony at the Eden Gardens on Tuesday. However, Kolkata Police, in their bid to enhance the image of 'Brand Kolkata', has conceived an innovative 'Road Safety' advertisement campaign. They have connected William Blake's famous poem "The Tyger" with KKR's IPL victory. Kolkata Traffic Police have put out...
04:40 PM, May 29, 2012
CHENNAI: An initiative by the city police to enhance security and prevent crimes against senior citizens who live alone has received an enthusiastic response. Following a spurt in crimes targeting the elderly, City Police Commissioner J K Tripathy hammered out a special plan. Senior citizens who are 'home alone' were requested to register with the police so that the cops could enhance security measures. In the last four months, 850...
08:10 AM, May 28, 2012
Mumbai: Even as aviation authorities are making a bid to revive the Juhu aerodrome, certain officials, it appears, are taxiing in the opposite direction. MiD DAY is in possession of documents that indicate an unholy nexus between some Airports Authority of India (AAI) bigwigs and the builders lobby, endeavouring to shut down one of the runways at the aerodrome for furtherance of building projects. The records suggest the officials attempted...
01:27 PM, May 15, 2012
London: The British Safety Council on Monday announced the suspension of its 2012 International Safety Award recently conferred on mining major Vedanta Aluminium Limited's Lanjigarh refinery in Odisha. A press release from the BSC said information had been brought to its attention concerning a fatality at the site in April 2012. It said investigation was necessary to determine whether the stringent eligibility conditions for making such awards had been complied...
10:46 PM, May 14, 2012
