It is the nature of public spaces and citizens’ engagement with them to be constantly changing. Hence, strategies to protect lives and prioritize safety in such spaces, such as roads in urban areas,...

Life is precious. The devastation caused by the loss of a loved one in an accident cannot be fully alleviated. But a “just” financial compensation, as the Supreme Court pointed out last year, can ...

A motor rally observing the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi arrived here on Tuesday through Dhaka in Bangladesh as part of a three-nation tour.The rally will travel through places historical...

Citizens on Sunday participated in a walk organised by the Consumers’ Legal Protection Forum, Assam, with support from Consumer VOICE, Delhi, to mark the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Vi...

Transport minister Chandra Mohan Patowary on Saturday directed all enforcement transport officials to keep track of overloaded passenger vehicles instead of trucks. He said this during the inauguratio...

Superintendent of police (traffic) Ajit Peter Dungdung has told junior officers that they will be held responsible for the death of motorcyclists without helmets.The diktat comes after Dungdung found ...

Rules are made to be broken. This is a maxim that unites Indians cutting across the barriers of religion, caste, class and gender. This could explain the collective outrage over the steep fines prescr...

Sir — Every year, just before Durga Puja, people feel the urge to visit Kumartuli. The idol-makers there, however, painstakingly go about their business all year round, working in conditions that ar...

Sir — Nothing is as it seems. Many of us have wondered why food never tastes as delicious as it looks in advertisements. The trick, apparently, lies in photography. Many a clever ruse, such as using...