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Slow on safety: The Hindu editorial on February 16, 2021 Madhya Pradesh bus accident

The Madhya Pradesh bus crash shows that the accident pandemic is not waning India’s Road Safety Month, launched on January 18 as an extended form of the annual Road Safety Week for greater impact, has concluded with a bus accident in Madhya Pradesh that has claimed 51 lives. The victims, including many young people reportedly travelling to Satna and Rewa to take a government recruitment examination, were trapped within the bus as it plunged into a swollen canal. One of many ghastly mishaps that have occurred after the COVID-19 lockdown, it lends grist to the view that the country, with the world’s worst record on road safety, cannot get its act together any time soon. India has, according to the just-released World Bank-commissioned report, Traffic Crash Injuries and Disabilities, 1% of the world’s vehicles but 11% of all road accident deaths; the Union Transport Ministry put the number of dead in 2019 at 1,51,113, and injured at 4,51,361. Those who suffer the most are from l

Police find fridge, freezer stuffed with drugs worth some €420,000

The police arrested four men after they found a fridge and a chest freezer stuffed with drugs being carried on a van in Floriana late on Monday. In a statement on Tuesday, the police said that after weeks of surveillance, officers from the Drugs Squad assisted by the Rapid Intervention Unit stopped, surrounded and searched the van and found 20 packets of suspected cannabis hidden in the sealed fridge and chest freezer. The operation continued in St Paul s Bay, and another packet with more suspected drugs was found in a residence. A 47-year-old man from Senglea and three Italian men aged 23, 29 and 32 were arrested.

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