Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla Tuesday said the decision to invoke a new penal provision related to hit-and-run cases, which has sparked protests by truckers, will be taken only after consultation with the All India Motor Transport Congress.
25 trucks carrying mostly vegetables from India were not allowed to cross the LoC.
The Madhya Pradesh police recently disclosed that nearly 163 trucks with explosives on board have gone missing. According to the police, these trucks were on their way to MP from Rajasthan and were carrying more than 800 tonnes of explosives.
Drivers of commercial vehicles, including trucks and tankers, stopped work in several states on Monday and blocked roads at some places to protest against the provision in the new penal law regarding hit-and-run accident cases involving motorists.
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Tatra Trucks India will soon foray into on road applications by launching a heavy truck in India at its plant at Hosur in Tamil Nadu.
On Monday, five Army personnel were killed and five injured when heavily armed terrorists hurled a grenade and opened indiscriminate fire on two army vehicles around 3.30 pm on the Machedi-Kindli-Malhar mountainous road near Badnota village, about 150 km from the district headquarters Kathua.
At least 19 people were killed while 16 others, including six army jawans, injured when a truck rammed into two vehicles in Pali district of Rajasthan on Tuesday. The truck lost its balance on National Highway-14 in Supermpur area near Netra village on Tuesday evening when a car attempted to overtake it, said District Collector Neeraj K Pawan.
Cheistha Kochhar, 33, was a Doctoral Candidate studying behavioural research since she moved to London from Gurugram, Haryana, last year.
At least 12 people were killed and 23 others injured when a speeding mini-bus hit a container truck on Samruddhi Expressway in Maharashtra's Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district in the early hours of Sunday, police said.
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In several places, from roof-tops and flyovers, people showered petals and garlands on the truck.
Consolidation has begun, due to which some are trying to trim the business and others are seeking an exit. The situation would worsen after August 31.
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Hit-and-run cases are those in which drivers, who cause the accidents, flee from the spot and do not inform the police.
Sumit Antil sent his spear to a distance of 69.50m to stand to claim the gold medal.
The range will also be gradually introduced in South Korea, South Africa, the SAARC countries and the Middle East. "The developing infrastructure in India makes it possible for transporters to reap the benefits of trucks with higher power, speed and carrying capacity. The new range from Tata Motors will meet those needs and will help us penetrate international market more effectively and competitively," Tata Sons and Tata Motors Chairman Ratan Tata said.
The truck overturned while negotiating a sharp turn.
Commercial vehicle major Ashok Leyland plans to strengthen its presence in the 5-12-tonne range of vehicles. It is to launch trucks from the Prague-headquartered AVIA, which it had bought in 2006, and would upgrading its light commercial vehicles (LCVs) from the joint venture it has with Nissan of Japan. It has also said the JV with Nissan would turn cash-positive in the next 18 months.
Sandeep Sharma, who worked for a local news channel, had told the district administration he feared he could be killed by the sand mafia, his nephew, Vikas Purohit, said in a complaint to the police.
The state government on Wednesday issued an order shifting Kanyal to the post of state deputy secretary. Narsinghpur's collector Riju Bafna has been made the new collector of Shajapur.
The three armed forces have put on hold induction of Tatra trucks for their ongoing projects from BEML in the wake of the ongoing investigations against it.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Sunday ordered a probe into a road accident on the Samruddhi Expressway which claimed 12 lives.
After launching the Nano early this week, the country's leading truck and bus maker, Tata Motors, is now looking to set up a truck manufacturing plant in Myanmar with support from the Indian government in the form of financial participation.
A 25-year-old driver from Northern Ireland has been arrested on suspicion of murder of the 39 people, they said.
Three persons were killed and two others injured when pro-Taliban militants attacked several North Atlantic Treaty Organisation container trucks in the restive Khyber tribal region of Pakistan on Monday, officials said.
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At least 15 villagers were killed and 19 injured on Monday in Balrampur district of Chhattisgarh, bordering Jharkhand, when their truck overturned.
The incident took place at about 3 am when the truck was returning from Agra, police said.
Four times more liquor has been seized in the 2024 election than during the 2019 polls.
The study paper -- 'Skills Gaps in the Indian Logistics Sector' -- estimates that currently India has only some 3 million truck drivers for medium and heavy commercial vehicles. Even if 50 per cent of all drivers in India are to be trained, almost 125 institutes of the size and scale of the existing one in Namakkal will be required in the next 7-8 years, says the paper.
Scenes from the farmers' Delhi Chalo march and protest.
