DCP (traffic) MM Anarwala added that they hoped the drive would draw the attention of parents and school principals to the unsafe manner in which many schoolchildren were ferried to school. “Parents and principals ought to pay more attention to the children’s safety,” he said.

The traffic department has constituted a 30-member task force under one PI to enforce traffic rules in the city. The task force has been active in different parts of Ahmedabad to check violation of traffic rules.

Traffic police stop 40 vans and autos ferrying kids to school; children made to sweat it out on the roads

Many schoolchildren in the city were literally made to sweat it out on the roads on Tuesday, when they found themselves caught between a zealous traffic police department and the private vans and auto-rickshaw owners who ferry them to school in overloaded vehicles.

The city’s traffic police launched a campaign on Tuesday against vans and auto-rickshaws that were found carrying more than the stipulated 14 and 6 schoolchildren, respectively. As many as 40 school vans and auto-rickshaws ferrying children to school were stopped at Commerce six-roads and Darpan six-roads at 7 am. The vehicles were not released till 5 pm.

South Block fears govt may not be able to stop implosion

Pakistan is heading back to army rule as the civilian government appears incapable of stopping the country’s slide into chaos. Though no one in the Indian government is publicly saying it, South Block is coming round to the view that the government may not be in a position to stop the implosion.

Cotabato City, Philippines  - Three children were killed in the southern Philippines when a mortar accidentally exploded while they were playing with it, a military report said Wednesday.

Five more children were wounded in the explosion that occurred late Tuesday in Buldon town in Maguindanao province, 930 kilometres south of Manila, the report added.

The children were playing with an 81-millimetre mortar, which accidentally exploded inside a rice mill building.

Melbourne, Mar 3: Men are more likely to get distracted by the in-car GPS navigation devices than women, according to a new study.

In the survey involving 2500 Australian drivers, 17 per cent of male admitted to losing focus while using their GPS units in the car.

While just 12 percent women said they were distracted by the gadgets.

44-year-old man runs a free shelter for injured cattle

This is the birth place of Mahatma Gandhi. But 44-year-old Rajubhai Odedara knows little about his beliefs and work. Yet his reverence to cows in particular and cattle in general, and his spirit of service to them, seem straight out of Bapu's set of beliefs. On the outskirts of Porbandar, at Bokhara village, Rajubhai runs a panjarapole (shelter) where he and his family tend to accident-hit cattle and nurse them back to health.