Lucknow: Five people were burnt alive on Tuesday morning after a container truck hit a car on the Yamuna Expressway. According to information, the container truck was coming from the wrong direction. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has expressed grief over the incident and has directed district officials to take necessary action and provide help to the […]
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UP: Woman alleges rape in moving bus, conductor held
Agra: The conductor of a deluxe double-decker night bus, on way to Delhi from Lucknow, has been arrested in Uttar Pradesh’s Mathura, after a woman passenger complained on the 112 helpline that she had been raped in the moving vehicle, police said on Saturday. According to the police, there were 40 passengers on the bus. The […]
CBI books former Yamuna Expressway CEO, 20 others
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday said that it has taken over the probe into the Yamuna Expressway scam for alleged irregularities worth Rs 126 crore and named former CEO P.C. Gupta and 20 others in its FIR. A senior CBI official said that the central probe agency has registered the […]
Mercedes speeds at 214 kmph on Yamuna Expressway
Agra (1 MIN READ): A record number of fatal accidents on the Yamuna Expressway has neither alarmed nor proved a deterrent to speed crazy car drivers. The Agra RTO has a sent an E-challan to the owner of a Mercedes which zoomed past at 214 km per hour late on Monday night. CCTV cameras recorded […]
Yamuna Expressway accident: Passengers were jolted out of sleep as bus fell into drain
Agra: “We were all in deep sleep when the bus toppled twice before falling in the nallah (drain). Screams were heard for about a minute after which there was silence. Some passengers climbed on top of bodies to make their way out of the bus,” said Rishi Yadav, a survivor of the bus accident on […]
Yamuna Expressway accident: Villagers risk lives, save 20 people
Agra: Two aspiring army men and a few brave villagers, out for morning ablutions, were among the daredevils who risked their lives to save around 20 people after their bus fell into a gorge on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway early on Monday. The double-decker bus with 53 passengers on board was on its way to Delhi […]
29 passengers killed as bus falls into gorge off Agra-Lucknow Expressway
Agra: At least 29 people were killed on Monday when a passenger bus fell into a gorge on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway. The bus, after hitting the divider, fell into the 40-feet-deep gap between two flyovers on the Yamuna Expressway near Milestone 161 (Jharna nallah) under Etmadpur police jurisdiction of Agra district at around 4.15 a.m. […]
4,956 accidents, 718 deaths on Yamuna Expressway in 5 years
Agra: A total of 4,956 accidents, 718 deaths and 7,671 serious injuries were recorded on the Yamuna Expressway between August 2012 to March 31, 2018, revealed an RTI reply. The alarming number of fatal road accidents on the Yamuna Expressway has caused widespread concern, calling for effective intervention of the Central and State government agencies. Information […]
8 killed as bus rams truck on Yamuna Expressway
Greater Noida: Eight persons, including a woman, were killed, and 24 others injured on Friday when a speeding bus rammed into a truck from the rear on the Yamuna Expressway here, police in Uttar Pradesh said. The accident occurred at around 5 a.m. near Karauli village some 29 kilometre from the Expressway Zero point. The bus […]
Three AIIMS doctors killed on Yamuna Expressway
Mathura : Three doctors of the AIIMS were killed and four seriously injured when their car rammed into a stationery vehicle near the Maant toll plaza in Uttar Pradesh’s Mathura district on Sunday, police said. The injured were immediately shifted to the Niyati Hospital and the bodies to the district hospital, a police officer said. […]