Eastern Freeway

An Indian-origin drug-affected and sleep deprived truck driver was jailed today for 22 years for ploughing his heavy vehicle into Australian police officers and killing four of them last year on Melbourne's Eastern Freeway, according to media reports

Mumbai traffic police have set new speed limits for vehicles plying on flyovers, bridges and highways in the city, an official said on Friday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated two key expressways today, one to cut down on travel time from Meerut to Delhi, the other to help reduce pollution in the national capital. But his address at Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh, next door to Kairana where assembly elections will be held today, touched upon what are seen as the key election issues. The R...

Among the measures taken by the government to handle Delhi's pollution problem was a six-lane expressway that would allow about two lakh vehicles, including trucks and commercial traffic, to bypass the national capital. The much-awaited Eastern Peripheral Expressway will also reduce congestion and provide seamless connectivity beyond Delhi. The hig...

Six persons including two children were today killed while three others sustained serious injuries when the taxi they were travelling in hit a road divider on the eastern freeway here, police said.

The Eastern Freeway is fast turning into a death trap. Last morning, three persons were killed and two others were injured in a pile-up car crash on the stretch near Chembur. The vehicles were so mangled that gas cutters had to be used to extricate the victims.

Police have arrested three persons for allegedly sexually assaulting and murdering a 7-year-old, almost a month after the minor's decomposed body was found along Eastern Freeway near suburban Wadala.

A construction labourer found the skeleton of a 6-year-old boy under a bridge near the Eastern Freeway on Thursday. The cops have identified the deceased as Furkan Raheem Khan, who went missing on October 13.

A Mumbai court has for the second time rejected bail for Janhavi Gadkar, the lawyer who rammed her Audi car into an oncoming taxi while driving on the wrong side of the Eastern Freeway in an allegedly drunken state.

A Mumbai court has rejected the bail plea of Janhavi Gadkar, the Mumbai lawyer who rammed her Audi car into a taxi while driving on the wrong side of the Eastern Freeway, allegedly in a drunken state.

A woman lawyer who crashed her Audi car into a taxi in Mumbai on Monday resulting in the death of two persons consumed alcohol twice that night according to CCTV footage, sources have told NDTV.

Who could have thought that the man who never caused an accident in his life, would die in a road accident. It came as a bolt from the blue and I haven't been able to sleep since then. I am shocked and I will probably never come to terms with what has happened.

A woman lawyer whose red Audi Q3 car crashed into a taxi early on Tuesday morning in Mumbai, might have driven on the wrong side of the Eastern Freeway for 11 kilometres, the police have said. Two people traveling in the taxi were killed in the accident.

Mumbai had to wait for a few hours today for the opening of the new Eastern Freeway. The road finally opened just before noon. The commuters had to miss it during the morning rush hour and then again at 11 am.

The 17-km long road, which is toll-free and signal-free, will drastically reduce travel time between South Mumbai - India's most important financial district - and the eastern suburbs. A journey from Chembur to South Bombay that usually takes more than an hour will be cut to 20 minutes now.

An Indian-origin drug-affected and sleep deprived truck driver was jailed today for 22 years for ploughing his heavy vehicle into Australian police officers and killing four of them last year on Melbourne's Eastern Freeway, according to media reports

Mumbai traffic police have set new speed limits for vehicles plying on flyovers, bridges and highways in the city, an official said on Friday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated two key expressways today, one to cut down on travel time from Meerut to Delhi, the other to help reduce pollution in the national capital. But his address at Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh, next door to Kairana where assembly elections will be held today, touched upon what are seen as the key election issues. The R...

Among the measures taken by the government to handle Delhi's pollution problem was a six-lane expressway that would allow about two lakh vehicles, including trucks and commercial traffic, to bypass the national capital. The much-awaited Eastern Peripheral Expressway will also reduce congestion and provide seamless connectivity beyond Delhi. The hig...

Six persons including two children were today killed while three others sustained serious injuries when the taxi they were travelling in hit a road divider on the eastern freeway here, police said.

The Eastern Freeway is fast turning into a death trap. Last morning, three persons were killed and two others were injured in a pile-up car crash on the stretch near Chembur. The vehicles were so mangled that gas cutters had to be used to extricate the victims.

Police have arrested three persons for allegedly sexually assaulting and murdering a 7-year-old, almost a month after the minor's decomposed body was found along Eastern Freeway near suburban Wadala.

A construction labourer found the skeleton of a 6-year-old boy under a bridge near the Eastern Freeway on Thursday. The cops have identified the deceased as Furkan Raheem Khan, who went missing on October 13.

A Mumbai court has for the second time rejected bail for Janhavi Gadkar, the lawyer who rammed her Audi car into an oncoming taxi while driving on the wrong side of the Eastern Freeway in an allegedly drunken state.

A Mumbai court has rejected the bail plea of Janhavi Gadkar, the Mumbai lawyer who rammed her Audi car into a taxi while driving on the wrong side of the Eastern Freeway, allegedly in a drunken state.

A woman lawyer who crashed her Audi car into a taxi in Mumbai on Monday resulting in the death of two persons consumed alcohol twice that night according to CCTV footage, sources have told NDTV.

Who could have thought that the man who never caused an accident in his life, would die in a road accident. It came as a bolt from the blue and I haven't been able to sleep since then. I am shocked and I will probably never come to terms with what has happened.

A woman lawyer whose red Audi Q3 car crashed into a taxi early on Tuesday morning in Mumbai, might have driven on the wrong side of the Eastern Freeway for 11 kilometres, the police have said. Two people traveling in the taxi were killed in the accident.

Mumbai had to wait for a few hours today for the opening of the new Eastern Freeway. The road finally opened just before noon. The commuters had to miss it during the morning rush hour and then again at 11 am.

The 17-km long road, which is toll-free and signal-free, will drastically reduce travel time between South Mumbai - India's most important financial district - and the eastern suburbs. A journey from Chembur to South Bombay that usually takes more than an hour will be cut to 20 minutes now.