Potholes

Supreme Court Concerned Over Large Number Of Deaths Due To Potholes

India News | Press Trust of India | Thursday December 6, 2018

The Supreme Court today expressed concern over 14,926 people being killed in road accidents due to potholes in last five years and termed it "unacceptable".

Congress Makes It Youth vs Experience In Fight For Shivraj Chouhan's Turf

Assembly Madhya Pradesh | Written by Anurag Dwary | Monday November 26, 2018

There are no swanky buildings here. The roads are mostly of average quality, with potholes here and there. But this town in Madhya Pradesh is still a focal point of the assembly elections in the large, heartland state. Budhni, represented by BJP's Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, 60, faces a young opponent sent by the Congress to breach his fo...

Royal Enfield Interceptor 650 India Ride Review

Preetam Bora | Saturday November 17, 2018

We ride the new Royal Enfield Interceptor 650 on Indian roads, over potholes, speedbreakers and in hot and humid conditions in sweltering Goa. And here's what we found out.

Use Toll Money To Fix Potholes, Court Tells Maharashtra Government

Mumbai News | Press Trust of India | Wednesday September 26, 2018

The Bombay High Court on Tuesday said it was unfortunate that arterial roads and highways across Maharashtra continued to remain riddled with potholes year after year and asked why the state government did not spend even a portion of the money collected as toll for repairing them.

Here's How Bengaluru Is Fixing It's Pothole Problem

Bangalore News | Written by Maya Sharma | Tuesday September 25, 2018

Monday was the Court-mandated deadline for Bengaluru's city corporation, the BBMP, to repair the thousands of potholes that make travel in the traffic-choked city even slower and more dangerous.

"Frightening", Says Top Court On 3,597 Pothole-Related Deaths In 2017

India News | Press Trust of India | Tuesday September 18, 2018

Taking note of almost 3,600 deaths reported in 2017 alone due to potholes on roads across the country, the Supreme Court today said it was "unfortunate" that some states were disputing the data published by the Centre on such accidental deaths.

This Mumbai Man Fills Potholes To Save Lives, "Honour" His Dead Son

Mumbai News | Agence France-Presse | Friday September 14, 2018

Dadarao Bilhore smoothes the road surface, rests his shovel, looks to the sky and prays for his son, who was killed in an accident caused by a pothole. Prakash Bilhore, a promising student, was just 16 when he died in July 2015 in Mumbai. To help deal with his grief, Prakash's devastated father Dadarao decided he would do something about Mumbai's n...

Panaji Mayor To Go On Hunger Strike If Potholes Not Filled In Two Days

Goa News | Press Trust of India | Sunday September 2, 2018

Panaji Mayor Vitthal Chopdekar on Saturdaysaid he and other corporators would launch a hunger strike if all potholes on city roads are not filled up within 48 hours.

Uber Faces New Roadblock in New York on Its Way to IPO

Associated Press | Friday August 10, 2018

Uber will have to navigate around a new regulatory pothole in New York on an already bumpy road to its initial public offering of stock next year.

Ford Develops Pothole Detection Technology To Make Driving Smoother

CarAndBike Team | Saturday August 4, 2018

Ford recently launched the latest model of the Ford Focus in the UK where it was fitted with Pothole Detection. Ford uses a technology called 'continuous controlled damping' which consists of 12 high-resolution sensors that monitor the suspension and driving inputs such as throttle, brakes, and steering every two milliseconds.

After Mumbai Man's Son Died Because Of A Pothole, He Filled 500 Of Them

Mumbai News | ANI | Tuesday July 31, 2018

Dadarao Bilhore, a Mumbai resident, who lost his 16-year-old son beacuse of a pothole on a road three years ago, filled up 556th pothole in the city on Sunday.

In Mumbai, A Citizens' Campaign To Fill Potholes On City Roads

Mumbai News | Edited by Divyanshu Dutta Roy (with inputs from ANI) | Tuesday July 31, 2018

While accusations and counter-charges fly over the dismal state of roads in and around Mumbai and continue to cost lives, two citizens have literally taken the matter into their own hands.

Supreme Court Voices Concern Over Accidental Deaths Due To Potholes

India News | Press Trust of India | Friday July 20, 2018

The Supreme Court today expressed concern over deaths in accident caused by potholes on roads across the country and observed that the number fatalities caused due to such accidents was more than those in terror attacks.

In Thane's Kalyan, Signboards Put Up To Warn Motorists Of Potholes

Cities | Press Trust of India | Tuesday July 17, 2018

The Kalyan civic body has put up boards at key junctions asking motorists to be careful while driving, a move that comes after five deaths due to potholes on roads.

In Protest Against Mumbai Potholes, Raj Thackeray's Party Men Damage Road

Mumbai News | Edited By Richa Taneja (With Inputs From Agencies) | Tuesday July 17, 2018

The incident took place a day after the party workers caused damage to a government office in Navi Mumbai.