The Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana will provide accident insurance of Rs 100,000 to all people who open bank accounts under this scheme.
Police arrested two persons after a woman travelling on a scooter with her husband was fatally knocked down allegedly by a BMW car in Mumbai's Worli area in the early hours of Sunday, an official said.
The Mathura MP's Mercedes car reportedly rammed into an oncoming Maruti Alto.
Members of the Parsi community, business leaders and politicians were among those who attended the cremation.
Petrol pumps in many cities witnessed long queues on Tuesday as people came to fill up their vehicle tanks fearing shortage of fuel amid the protest by truck drivers against a provision in the new penal law on hit-and-run accident cases involving motorists.
Accident On Hill Road is a pathetic excuse for a film.
Rishabh Pant has been nominated for the prestigious Laureus World Comeback of the Year Award.
The MLA pointed out that there is already a ban on the consumption of alcohol in four other states, and Goa should also join the list.
Forty-one Border Road Organisation labourers working to clear snow near the high altitude border village of Mana in Uttarakhand's Chamoli district were trapped under an avalanche on Friday.
'NO problem. Nobody was hurt, which is the most important thing'
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh on Saturday kicked up a controversy when he blamed "girlfriends, bikes and mobile phones" for the rising cases of road accidents in the state. Speaking at a seminar on road safety at a medical institute, he expressed concern over the rising number of youth dying in road mishaps.
In a worrying trend, the BSF has lost four times more troops in off-duty bike accidents than at the borders in the recent past.
