The City Traffic Police has booked as many as 1485 cases on vehicles belonging to government departments for violation of traffic rules.
According to Additional Commissioner (Traffic) CV Anand, in a Special Drive launched on government vehicles on Aug 19, the traffic police booked 62 cases for wrong-side driving, 75 cases of stop line violation, 50 cases of signal jumping, 244 cases of wrong parking, 20 cases of triple riding, 17 cases of cell phone driving, 878 cases of irregular number plate and 139 cases of driving without proper documents like driving license, RC or PUC. An amount of Rs. 3,11,600 has also been collected for these violations.
Meanwhile, the Traffic Police continued its drive against the police department vehicles and collected fine of Rs 3,53,300 from the drivers or police officers in 1569 different cases. According to CV Anand, most of the cases were booked for having improper number plate and wrong parking. (INN)
2011/9/24 7:48:49 All ministers and senior officials of the State Government will have to drive their official cars themselves as the government drivers from Telangana region too have decided to join the Sakala Janula Samme or the people's general strike from Monday demanding statehood for the Telangana region.
The Telangana Government Drivers JAC on Saturday served the strike notice to Chief Secretary SV Prasad. Later, the drivers JAC leaders told media that over 2,000 drivers working in the State capital would not attend to duties from September 26. They said they would be joining the protests seeking formation of Telangana state. (INN)
Traffic police ‘clamps’ on haphazard parking, nets Rs 1.29 in fines
2011/7/21 10:05:42 The Traffic Police has netted a whopping Rs 1.29 crore in two months in fines from errant four-wheeler drivers by using the Wheel Clamps to control the menace of haphazard parking across the city.
This amount has been collected since May 20, 2011, when 750 Wheel Clamps were issued to the Traffic Police.
As per the Section 127 of Motor Vehicle Act, the Traffic Police is authorised to book a vehicle which is wrongly parked as impediment to traffic flow by either towing or by using Wheel Clamps to immobilise it.
The Traffic Police fines an errant driver Rs 400 as fine and towing amount.
The concerned traffic officer after putting the Wheel Clamp, affixes the slip giving his name and telephone number on which he is to be contacted for removal of Wheel Clamps.
According to official statistics, 32,324 errant drivers were ‘clamped’ by the traffic police in the past two months.
The police stations of Gopalapuram with 1358 drivers penalized, Mahankali with 1421, Marredpally with 152, with, Trimulgherry with 1299, Begumpet with 3317, Panjagutta with 4582, SR Nagar with 3705, Jubilee Hills with 451, Banjara Hills with 2904, Saifabad 1624, Abids with 2035, Chikkadpally with 826, Charminar with 678, Falaknuma with 1005, Mirchowk with 631, Sultan Bazaar 454, Malakpet with 1118, Kachiguda with 2622, Nallakunta with 254, Goshamahal with 752, Nampally with 483, Asifnagar with 603 and Tolichowki with 50 contributed to the Rs 1.29 crore collected as fines.
Addition Commissioner of Police (Traffic) SV Anand said that the impact of using Wheel Clamps has been tremendous and for the first time the medium and heavy vehicle drivers or owners are thinking twice before parking on the main roads.
Mr Anand however accepted the fact that the problem of haphazard parking is perennial.(INN)
2011/12/19 1:44:18 Telangana Jagruthi president K Kavitha on Sunday demanded that the state government issue identity cards for all auto drivers in the city to prevent harassment from police higher-ups.
Participating as chief guest at the Telangana Automotors Drivers Union first anniversary being held at Telangana Bhavan, Kavitha said that the identity cards should be issued to auto drivers on the lines of Beedi workers in the state.
She also demanded that the government recognize auto drivers in the state as `unorganized labour’ and implement welfare programmes for their standard of livelihood.
Apart from providing houses to auto drivers, she said the government should provide PF facility for their families.She called upon auto drivers to launch an organized fight to achieve their demands.and called upon auto drivers to participate actively in the Telangana statehood agitation.
She slammed the state government for affecting the livelihood of auto drivers by resorting to harassing methods and increasing hike on petrol price.Participating as chief guest in the Telangana Automotors Drivers Union first anniversary being held at Telangana Bhavan, Kavitha (INN)
2011/11/29 14:49:05 The City Police on Tuesday announced that its enforcement against drunken driving will take on the element of surprise from now on, in terms of location and timings.
The Hyderabad Traffic Police has claimed that its special drives have been successful, so far. During the special drives taken up on November 25 and 27 at various places in the twin cities from 10 pm to 1 am, the police arrested a total of 185 drunken drivers.
They include 58 drivers of were 4-wheelers, 120 of 2-wheelers and seven were of auto-rickshaws. On Nov 28, they were produced before the IVth Metropolitan Magistrate Court at Nampally and the Magistrate imposed fine up to Rs.2500 and their driving licenses have been suspended for 3 months. (INN)
2012/2/9 9:33:13 Bangalore police who arrests the 3 drivers in connection with Vaibhav Jewelers MD Manoj Kumar's murder case, have recovered Rs.2 crore worth gold from one of the drivers-Krishnayya Goud's house which belongs to Manoj Kumar. He said to be agreed that they have planned for this murder to loot the money.
Prince Mahesh Babu who is known to be a recluse was forced to come out and meet the press. The reason is the divided talk that has come out after the release of Khaleja.
Mahesh Babu’s last film Athdihi also did not fare well at the box office. Khaleja has come after a gap of three years and hence he cannot afford to have another flop.
So Mahesh has come out and is now desperately promoting his film. Mahesh defended all the vulgar dialogues in the film saying that they made sense as they look authentic!
What Mahesh said was that since cab drivers use foul language he used the same in the film! The can drivers are certainly not amused.
Admitted to Lilavati Hospital in Mumbai on February 18 after complaining of chest pain, actor Saif Ali Khan is fine and will be discharged from the hospital in a day or two.
Said Saif’s spokesman, “Saif is fine. He has been discharged from the ICU and shifted in another room. He will be discharged from the hospital in a day of
two. As of now, when the doctors come in the evening we will know. All his reports are fine and he needs rest.”
Saif was rehearsing to perform in the grand finale at the Kenstar Max Stardust awards on Sunday last at the MMRDA grounds in Mumbai.
He complained of chest pains and was rushed to the hospital, where Dr Vivek Mehan performed angiography on him.
He was also not able to collect the award that he had won for his role in the film, Omkara.
''Usually stars are late for shooting, but this star is late to collect his
award. I wonder where Saif is,” said the director of the film, Vishal Bharadwaj, who collected the award on Saif’s behalf.
Among the Bollywood stars, who enquired about Saif's health apart from sister Soha Ali Khan, girlfriend Rosa and mother Sharmila Tagore, were Amitabh Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, Preity Zinta, Fardeen Khan with wife Natasha.
Malaika Arora and Arbaaz Khan, Pradeep S Sarkar, filmmaker Kunal Kohli and director Vidhu Vinod Chopra were among others.
2007/10/31 6:53:59 The striking auto unions have now decided to intensify their agitation. The government is also firm in its stand that the auto drivers should go in for digital meters. The government has extended the deadline for fixing digital auto meters to December 10.
A delegation of auto drivers led by their union leaders met former chief minister Chandra Babu Naidu and sought his help in resolving the issue. Babu is reported to have expressed his solidarity with the auto drivers.
After listening to their problems, Babu is said to have 'advised' them to gain the confidence of the people of the twin cities. The majority of the people are of the opinion that many auto meters are tampered and the government’s move to insist on digital meters is correct. The public is ready to bear any mount of hardship but want the government to stand firm over the issue.
2011/9/28 5:26:21 The striking Telangana employees in the Secretariat have given a call to observe Secretariat Bandh on Thursday to protest against the arrest of their members. Three drivers were taken into custody on Wednesday for not discharging their duties.
The employees' leaders said that they would not allow the other loyal employees to discharge their duties on Thursday. The drivers' union in the Secretariat also joined the Telangana strike from September 26, which became intolerable for the officials.
Earlier, as part of the general strike, routine demonstrations held by the agitating employees took a violent turn on Wednesday with the arrest of their leader Narender Rao and three drivers. They were taken to the Kanchanbagh police station located in the old city. Later Narender Rao was released while the three drivers were detained.
Demanding release of the other three drivers the Secretariat, staff held demonstrations raising slogans in support of Telangana State near the out gate and later they took out a rally, headed by Suresh Kumar, Secretariat staff general secretary, to the C block where they also staged a sit-in protest.
Meanwhile, Telangana leader Srinivas Goud met Chief Secretary SV Prasad and urged for release of their drivers failing which they threatened to stop the work in Secretariat. Presently, the loyal employees belonging to Seemandhra region are attending duties. For the first time in the recent past the Rapid Action Force personnel who were requisitioned from the centre were pressed into service in addition to the regular forces at the Secretariat. (INN)
2011/8/11 9:05:40 Perhaps, he alone can take wrong decisions all the time. He alone can find himself standing on the wrong platform every time. Yet, he alone can think that he is fit for CM post. He is Chiranjeevi who now can’t be termed as PRP president or Congress leader. He thought that his presence is very essential at Tirupati where the local Auto Rickshaw drivers are on strike. So, he took the next flight and lands there today.
The Auto Rickshaw drivers are demanding the TTD authorities to allow them to run their autos to Tirumala Hill and Chiranjeevi believes that their demand is correct. Hence, today he met the Auto Drivers at Tirupati and collects a memorandum from them in this regard. Later, speaking to media he blames the TTD Officials for thinking one-sidedly against Auto Drivers. He demands the TTD officials to consider their request to ply autos between Tirumala Hill and Tirupati town. He also blames that the TTD JEO’s attitude towards people’s representatives is not good.
But, did he know that allowing the Auto Rickshaws to Tirumala Hills will lead to many accidents in the road? Doesn’t he know that, allowing the autos to Tirumala Hill will create new problems like transporting alcohol, non veg. items and all other items that were prohibited on the holy hills? Can’t he think that the autos will create a mess on the holy hills roaming free everywhere? It is time, Chiranjeevi should appoint a political and media advisor for him so as he could avert doing mistakes repeatedly.
2011/10/10 7:06:44 RTC bus drivers burn effigies of union leaders Syed Mahmood and Nageshwar Rao at Mahatma Gandhi Bus Station here on Monday for announcing withdrawal of RTC strike.
2007/11/22 1:25:48 The regional transport authority will organize a digital meter mela at parade grounds in Secunderabad. The RTS is organising the meal in association with the manufactures of digital meters. Auto drivers interested in fixing digital meters have to register their names at the local RTA offices. The digital meters are priced between 1500 and 1700.
The government is firm in it decision to make digital meters compulsory from January 1, 2008. Autio’s without digital meters will be fined 500 rupees and the fine will go up to 1000 and 1500 for the second and third time. After that, the autos would be seized. Some union leaders want the government to raise the minimum fare from the present 10 rupees to 14 rupees to go digital.
2011/9/27 5:43:24 Finance Minister Anam Ramnarayana Reddy tasted the Telangana agitators' protest for a while on Tuesday when his vehicle reached the State Secretariat. The minister's vehicle was blocked and the Telangana staff asked the driver to get out of the car. However, the driver did not oblige and sped away with the car.
The protestors also did not allow the officials' cars to proceed to their respective destinations stopping them as the vehicles entered the main gate. The official vehicle drivers, as part of the Sakala Janula Samme which entered 15th day, kept off from their duties on Tuesday. When their vehicles entered the Secretariat at In Gate the Telangana leaders blocked them and motivated the drivers to leave the four-wheelers on the spot.
Following their directions the drivers left the official vehicles leaving the officers in their cars. Some of the officers drove the cars to their respective blocks while others who were new to driving walked the distance to reach their offices.
Later, the striking staff took out a rally and observed a sit-in near the main entrance raising slogans in support of Telangana. They also demonstrated in front of the Chief Minister's office at C-Block and raised pro-Telangana slogans.
At Vanashalipuram, the Telangana agitators attacked the buses which were bound for Secretariat to transport the employees. Enraged by the special arrangements for picking up the Secretariat employees, the agitators stopped and damaged the buses breaking wind shields. (INN)
2007/1/3 6:24:13 Crew members filming a Bollywood anti-smoking movie will have to cough up a fine if they are caught puffing up on the set, a newspaper reported on Wednesday.
Kumar Mangat, the producer of ``No Smoking,'' told the Mumbai Mirror newspaper that he has hired a cameraman to catch offenders in action.
``Many people try to smoke on the sly, so I have told my cameraman to be very alert at all times,'' said Mangat. ``Sometimes when caught the offenders protest that 500 rupees is too high an amount,'' the daily quoted Mangat as saying.
However, he insists they pay up and plans to donate 1.12 lakh rupees collected over the past two months to a cancer hospital.
The movie is about a chain smoker, played by Bollywood heartthrob John Abraham, who undergoes rehab to help him stop smoking and save his marriage.
Abraham has quit smoking and has not been caught cheating, he said.
Among those recently fined was upcoming actor Ranvir Shorey.
``I think this fine is a bit heavy on the pocket, but it's done in good spirit,'' Shorey told the newspaper. ``Anyway I'm trying to quit smoking, so I think this should help.''
2011/9/17 7:36:57 All auto-rickshaws in the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad will go off the roads from Sunday midnight.
Protesting against the increase in petrol prices and also to express solidarity with the employees’ general strike, the Telangana Auto Workers Joint Action Committee have called for 48 hours `Auto Bandh’ from September 18 midnight. Talking to media persons at Telangana Bhavan, TRS labour wing president L Roop Singh said the JAC has unanimously taken a decision to observe 48 hour Auto Bandh.
Roop Singh called upon the auto drivers in other Telangana districts to participate widely in bandh expressing solidarity to Telangana agitation. He appealed to transport authorities to increase the minimum fares of auto to Rs 20 and per kilometer as Rs 10.
If the government failed to take decision favourably on their demand, the auto drivers would intensify their agitation, he said. The drivers of goods and transport auto-rickshaws would also participate in the bandh.
Meanwhile, the state government is trying to make alternative arrangements in view of the auto bandh. (INN)
The Mahesh Babu film Dookudu is creating history at the box office. The film collected a record 9 crore on the first day of its release. Dookudu is now going strong by the day. The film has collected 21 crore till Sunday i.e. in the first three days of its release!
Traffic police to get tough with errant govt vehicles
2011/8/9 9:12:23 Additional Commissioner of Police (Traffic) CV Anand on Tuesday said that following public outcry, the traffic police will launch a drive against errant vehicles belonging to Police and other Government Departments for violating basic traffic rules.
Mr Anand said that, “there is an outcry in the public regarding the enforcement of traffic rules against common vehicle owners and ignoring government vehicles, as reflected in the face book, emails and phone calls received by the Police Department.”
The traffic police chief said that the main violations by government vehicles are wrong side driving, stop line violation, signal jumping, wrong parking, triple riding, cell phone driving, irregular number plates and vehicles without proper documents like DL, RC, PUC, etc.
Mr Anand pointed out that the Facebook facility which the Hyderabad Traffic Police launched recently is receiving the photographs, videos of the government vehicles which are violating Motor Vehicle Act and Rules.
If the date, time, location and the violation committed are clearly seen, then e-Challan will be issued against these vehicles, the traffic police chief promised.
He added that the enforcement and fining against police vehicles moving in Hyderabad City limits will commence from August 11.
The special drive against all other government department vehicles will start from August 16. Till that time, letters will be addressed to all Heads of Departments in the city with a request to instruct all drivers belonging to their departments to set right the irregularities in the documents and also instruct drivers to follow the traffic rules as per the MV Act/Rules compulsorily. (INN)
2011/9/22 8:18:27 Over 50,000 auto-rickshaws in the Telangana region would go off the roads for 48 hours from Friday mid-night.
The Telangana Auto Drivers Unions' JAC has called for a 48-hour auto bandh to express solidarity with the Sakala Janula Samme, the general strike for the cause of Telangana.
According to TRS Labour wing president L Roop Singh Roop Singh said that thousands of auto-rickshaw drivers would participate in rallies and dharnas on September 24 demanding statehood for Telangana. An auto-rickshaw rally will be organised on September 25 which will culminate into a public meeting at Indira Park. (INN)
2011/10/29 2:31:06 Greater Noida, Oct 29 (IANS) Formula One (F1) drivers missed the birthday bash of their supremo Bernie Ecclestone Friday night as they avoid "partying and drinking before races", said actor Arjun Rampal, the organiser for the event's parties.
"F1 drivers have a rule. They avoid partying and drinking before races," Arjun told IANS.
"They eat early and sleep early so one will get the chance to see all the F1 drivers Sunday when international pop icon Lady Gaga would be performing here," Arjun told IANS at the F1 party held here at Jaypee Integrated Sports Complex Friday night.
The 38-year-old is co-owner of one of the capital's upmarket lounge bars, Lap, which has been given the mandate for organising the after-parties for the event.
Formula One group CEO Ecclestone, who turned 81 Friday, was escorted to the red carpet by Arjun himself.
The business magnate looked dapper in simple white shirt and trousers.
Asked about his experience on the Indian soil, Ecclestone said: "All the drivers are very happy with the tracks. And I think India has a great potential and we can sustain the momentum by frequent participation."
The guests of the first day of F1 after-party saw some of the regular faces of the glamour world, although Bollywood presence was less.
Among the F1 drivers one could only see Narain Karthikeyan with wife Pavarna including a few F1 team bosses from Renault, Mercedes, Lotus and Sauber among others.
From the tinsel town, the list included, Anubhav Sinha, Chunkey Pandey accompanied by wife Bhawna, Suzanne Roshan, Tarina Patel of "Bhool Bhulaiya" fame and Rahul Dev.
The bash saw many socialites like Suhel Seth, designers Tarun Tahiliani, J.J. Valaya, Rohit Bal, Rohit Gandhi, Rahul Khanna, Manoviraj Khosla and Manav Gangwani among others.
Grammy award winning DJ Roger Sanchez was the highlight of the day. He was here to perform for the guests.
"F1 is one of my favourite sports to watch. I have previously performed in cities like Kolkata, Hyderabad and Delhi. However, I enjoyed playing the most in Delhi and Hyderabad," he said.
2011/7/27 10:51:00 The Telangana Drivers' Association on Wednesday cautioned the state government that its members would go on strike from August 1 if its demands are not met.
Speaking to media persons at the Secretariat after submitting a memorandum to Chief Secretary S V Prasad at the Secretariat on Wednesday, Drivers Union president S Harinath Babu, honorary president M A Rasheed and others stated that despite repeated reminders being made, the government has not heeded to their requests for settling their issues amicably.
At a separate press meeting at the Secretariat, Union Secretary R Krishnaiah blamed the N Kiran Kumar Reddy government for not implementing the fee reimbursement programme effectively as done during the rule of former chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy.
Mr Krishnaiah also wondered whether there was any government functioning in the state.
“There is no coordination between the IAS officers and the Chief Minister's instructions,” Mr Krishnaiah alleged.
AP Washermen's Union, in a memorandum submitted to Health Minister D L Ravindra Reddy asked for protection from the influential sector which is playing havoc with the poor in Duvur mandal of Kadapa district.
The Union members briefed media persons later.(INN)
Telangana Jagruthi president K Kavitha on Sunday demanded that the state government issue identity cards for all auto drivers in the city to prevent harassment from police higher-ups.
The City Police on Tuesday announced that its enforcement against drunken driving will take on the element of surprise from now on, in terms of location and timings.
All auto-rickshaws in the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad will go off the roads from Sunday midnight.
