The transport department on Wednesday revoked the licence of a man who was spotted by transport minister Suvendu Adhikari talking on a mobile phone while driving a small bus ferrying schoolchildren.Of...

Plating troubleSir — Some young people in Calcutta were recently heckled and harassed over sharing posts that sought to promote veganism. Besides being called ‘fascist’, some of them even had to...

The Narendra Modi government that overdoses on high-risk ventures like the demonetisation and air strikes appears to have been spooked by an omnipotent and omnipresent force: Indian road rogues who ha...

Sir — According to a study conducted by scientists at Otago University, the legendary Loch Ness monster may be a giant eel. It is interesting how a mythical creature has attracted the attention of s...

Kerala’s government has decided to keep in abeyance the recent hike in traffic fines during the ongoing Onam season following vehement resistance from both the ruling and Opposition parties.A meetin...

The capital has only 35 pollution testing centres for 9.5 lakh vehicles registered under Ranchi district transport department at a time pollution-under-control (PUC) certificates for vehicles are a mu...

Friday was almost unreal in the capital city. Almost all thoroughfares bore a deserted look. Even auto-rickshaw drivers, who are notorious for overloading, wrong-side driving, picking and dropping pas...

Steep fines for traffic violations, passed through the amended Motor Vehicles Act in Parliament, were enforced in the capital and in the steel city on Tuesday, the move already creating ripples of fea...

Public transporters, like city buses and auto-rickshaws, picking up passengers close to crossings and roundabouts and causing traffic snarls will soon be punished with fines of up to Rs 500.On the req...

Racing buses and the risk they pose on the streets of Calcutta were the focus of police commissioner Anuj Sharma’s first interaction with traffic police officers on Saturday.Sharma, a 1991-batch IPS...