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Maharashtra government is planning to cancel the licences of drivers who drink and drive. Alarmed by the rising number of road accidents due to drunk driving, the Home Department and Regional Traffic Office (RTO) have decided to take this strict action. There were 57,000 cases of drunk driving during the last three years, of which 867 were on New Year’s ...

Tata Steel Construction Products has announced the launch of Tata Steel Highways to address the requirements of the highways industry. It has been created by bringing together all the highways containment solutions previously available with various businesses of Tata Steel including Vetex™ and Protect 365©. All the subsidiaries of Corus have been rebranded under the Tata Steel Group. With this ...

Beijing Municipal government has decided to limit the number of new licence plates to be issued per year to 240,000. This has been done with the aim of reducing traffic congestion in China’s capital. Last year’s monster traffic jam that had lasted for days together raising an alarm all over the world might have been the trigger point for this. ...

The recently inaugrated Delhi-Faridabad Elevated Highway, popularly known as the Badarpur Elevated Highway, will connect Delhi and Haryana. The project was commissioned by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and has been designed, engineered and constructed by the HCC Group with an investment of nearly र600 crore. It will improve travel time by over 40 minutes and will lead ...

If a South Carolina engineer and a South Africa researcher have their way, airplanes may soon look like birds. Geoffrey Spedding (University of South Carolina) and Joachim Huyssen (Northwest University of South Africa) are working independently on redesigning commercial aircraft to make them more fuel efficient. The coincidence is that all the three designs look like birds though they never ...

The first hour after a life threatening accident is crucial for survival of accident victims. It is necessary to get the victims admitted to a hospital and get them treated upon within this time, called ‘the golden hour’. But in India, many people die as they do not get the essential treatment during this time owing to non-availability of money ...

The Karnataka government is in the process of building two electronic driving test tracks in Bangalore for testing the aspiring drivers before issuing them driving licences. These electronic test tracks would do away with the need of human test inspectors as tests would be done electronically. These, the second and the third electronic test tracks in the city, would serve ...

The Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) has appointed Mott MacDonald as technical consultant for the first phase of the new East-West Underground Metro in Bangalore. The 4.5km long East-West Metro covers four stations. The first phase, to be completed by 2013, is being developed as a complementary mode of transport. 3.3km of the Metro will be twin-bored with cut-and-cover ...

RS10, a five year, global road safety project was launched in China late last year. The project aims to reduce road-crash related death and injury in ten low-and-middle income areas by targeting the key risk factors on the road to reduce death and serious injuries and applying the proven good practices and interventions. The  (WHO), Global Road Safety Partnership and ...

The BMW has launched BMW 520d Series Sedan in India. A four cylinder diesel sedan, it is claimed to be an extremely fuel-efficient car. Using ‘Efficient Dynamics’, it delivers fuel economy of 18.4km/ltr for the Indian market specifications. Light weight construction technology, Brake Energy Regeneration and the Advanced Electronic Power Steering technology have been incorporated in the car. It will ...