Pramod Badiger

Hyderabad Commissioner of Police VC Sajjanar has issued a direct and urgent public appeal for commuters to wear helmets and prioritise their safety — a message prompted by a disturbing accident video from Bengaluru showing a helmetless rider losing control of his motorcycle after being struck by a falling tree branch. Sajjanar's appeal, shared through an official social media post on June 27, 2026, reframes the helmet not as an instrument for avoiding traffic penalties but as the difference...

Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari used a road safety event in New Delhi to deliver a message that has become central to his road safety vision: infrastructure investment and engineering excellence, however significant, cannot succeed without active public participation. Addressing the gathering, Gadkari revealed that the government has identified accident-prone black spots and landslide-prone stretches across the country and has undertaken improvement works at a...

Belagavi's week-long helmet awareness drive has produced a result that every road safety administrator in India would want to replicate: a post-drive compliance survey showing that 91.8 percent of two-wheeler riders in the city are now wearing helmets — more than nine out of ten riders adhering to one of the most basic and most life-saving road safety requirements on Indian roads. Police Commissioner Bhushan Borse, who personally announced the survey findings, attributed the achievement to...