A 70-plus doctor from Chennai has described how unsafe footpaths have become, after she and her husband suffered falls within a month. Writing in The Hindu, she said loose paver blocks, debris,…
Mangaluru City Police have registered 7,490 parking violation cases and collected fines of Rs 3,07,600 since June 2026 in a special enforcement drive. The violations include 1,080 cases of footpath parking, which…
State Highways officials, with police, have demolished illegal structures along 5 km of the 14-km Girivalam path around the Arunachaleswarar Temple in Tiruvannamalai. The second phase will clear the remaining 9 km…
A viral video on Instagram shows a man walking through Bengaluru, documenting footpaths blocked by poles, parked motorcycles, shops, and construction debris. He asks how wheelchair users and parents with strollers can…
Two sisters were killed after a motorcycle hit them while they crossed National Highway 66 (NH 66) bypass road at Karimbuvila junction near Thiruvallam in Thiruvananthapuram on Sunday morning, August 9, 2026.…
Bengaluru’s 'Clean Up Bengaluru' footpath drive has expanded beyond conventional encroachments. Bescom and the GBA are now removing electrical poles, transformer centres, and other infrastructure blocking pedestrians. Launched by energy minister KJ…
India’s Supreme Court has declared that people have a fundamental right to walk safely on designated footpaths, after a five-year-old boy was killed by a truck while walking to school. The BBC…
