Overview
- A head‑on collision between a traveler van and a container truck near Kaziranga on November 13 left 24 people dead and about 20 injured, with officials so far identifying 14 of the victims.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced Rs 2 lakh from the Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund for each family of the deceased and Assam’s chief minister said he would visit the scene to oversee relief and care for the injured.
- Separate highway incidents on November 14 included a Yamuna Expressway bus fire near Raya in which the driver rescued about 40 passengers before firefighters extinguished the blaze and an Agra–Lucknow Expressway mini‑bus collision that killed two people and injured about a dozen.
- Local, CCTV and social‑media footage have driven rapid police responses in other cases this week, including a one‑year‑old in East Delhi who survived after an SUV passed over him and an e‑challan image showing coordinates 0°N/0°E that prompted Noida Traffic Police to ask the motorist to contact the e‑challan helpline.
- Several other local incidents and disputes remain under active review, including a Motihari family complaint that brought a buffalo to a police station, a horse’s sudden death at Gwalior’s Kulaith fair and a legal challenge to a 1993 gift deed for Amitabh Bachchan’s Juhu bungalow that is now before the deputy registrar.