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Koh-i-Maran, Still a Garrison for Visitors

Edit Kashmir Observer 24 May 2016
SRINAGAR. The much hyped “Kashmir Fort Festival” by Department of Tourism Kashmir atop Koh-i-Maran hillock draws flak from visitors, citing intense security bandobast. The Koh-i-Maran Fort in Shar-e-Khaas was occupied by forces in 1990 after militancy started in Kashmir ... “I had heard stories about fort’s grandeur and magnificence from my parents,” said Sheikh Adnan, a student from old Srinagar ... ....

Four people died in crashes on Oklahoma roads

Edit The Oklahoman 24 May 2016
Four people died Sunday and Monday in wrecks on Oklahoma roads, authorities said ... Monday, Owen was driving a sport utility vehicle on S Council Road ... Monday, Irons was driving a sport utility vehicle west on a Garfield County road east of U.S ... The pickup went off the road and rolled, troopers said....

Lucky escape for woman, daughter as robbers smash car windows

Edit The Times of India 24 May 2016
A homemaker and her 14-year-old daughter, who took a short cut to reach home by avoiding traffic snarls on the main road, had the most harrowing experience in their lives on Sunday night. Four bike-borne men waylaid their car on an interior road and broke open the side windows in an attempt to gain entry into the vehicle ... Road at 8.30pm....

CM okays more cement roads for Nagpur

Edit The Times of India 24 May 2016
Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis has sanctioned more cement roads for the city costing Rs 300 crore ... He had approved cement roads worth Rs 300 crore in 2015-16. Now, same package has been okayed for 2016-17 and we are hopeful that he will sanction more cement roads worth Rs 300 crore every year in next three years. This will take the total expenditure on cement roads to Rs 1,500 crore during the BJP government's five year regime."....

Final destination: Beware Bengaluru's killer buses

Edit Deccan Chronicle 24 May 2016
As a young life was snuffed out on Sunday, with a student from Mysuru coming under the wheels of a BMTC bus,  the transport corporation’s “killer” reputation only got stronger.   But this time the BBMP too has to share the  blame  as its potholed roads clearly played the villain in this latest fatal accident ... Improving the road condition....

Rescued man 'relieved to be heading home'

Edit Otago Daily Times 24 May 2016
A person familiar with the area says it is possible for the road to be closed by snow drifts several metres deep.  ... "They aren't far off the main road, but they are up at 4500 feet, that's the issue," he said ... Central Otago 4WD Club Brent Wilson said the rugged off-road track would be pose a challenge for rescuers if they were to attempt to bring out the stricken convoy by land....

Pothole claims youth's life

Edit The Times of India 24 May 2016
In yet another pothole tragedy in the city, a 24-year-old carpenter came under the wheels of a speeding truck after his bike skidded off the road at Chikkajala near Yelahanka, northeast Bengaluru, on Sunday night....

Ciolos Government, hardly criticized by PSD and ALDE for amending Criminal Codes by GEO

Edit Topix 24 May 2016
Former PM Victor Ponta unleashed subsequently to Ciolos Government's decision to amend several articles of the Criminal Code and Criminal Procedure Code by emergency ordinance , stating that "They are building every day the road to Dictatorship!!!" At the same time, former PM announced that, as a simple deputy, he will propose rejection in Parliament of this "odious Government's Ordinance" ... ....

Protests in Brazil's 2 biggest cities against acting leader

Edit Topix 24 May 2016
"' Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Brazil's two biggest cities Sunday to protest against acting President Michel Temer, trying to keep up pressure on his interim administration only 10 days after he was sworn in. At least 2,000 protesters in Sao Paulo tried to march to Temer's residence but were blocked by police on neighboring roads ... ....

Chiang Mai's serial hit-and-rape suspect arrested

Edit Topix 24 May 2016
Police arrested a 29-year-old man in Chiang Mai on Monday allegedly for hitting female motorcyclists and raping them on local roads late at night in the past year. Pornchai Nanta, a native of San Sai district in Chiang Mai, was arrested at Khrua Ton Nam-Ton Khao restaurant in tambon Yuan of Chiang Kham district, Phayao ... ....

BDC violated open meetings act

Edit Baltimore Sun 24 May 2016
A state board said Monday that the Baltimore Development Corp. improperly barred the public and the news media from meetings about a proposal that the city borrow $535 million to pay for roads, parks, sewers and other projects on land in South Baltimore owned by Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank. The... ....

Agency would get cut of medical marijuana sales under bill

Edit The Washington Times 24 May 2016
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Lawmakers in the Louisiana House have agreed to give the agriculture department up to 7 percent of the revenue from sales of medical marijuana, to pay for agency costs of regulating the drug. The bill by Rep. Major Thibaut, a New Roads Democrat, also includes ... ....

Pilot suffers minor injuries in Monday plane crash in Putnam County

Edit The Florida Times Union 24 May 2016
Authorities in Putnam County located a plane crash in a field Monday afternoon and the pilot was able to exit the aircraft on his own after suffering minor injuries, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. The crash landing was reported just before 5 p.m. near Swisher Lakes Trail and Tucker Lake Road, said Sgt. Dylan Bryan, spokesman for the Highway Patrol ... It’s unclear what caused the crash, Bryan said. read more ... ....
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