Pothole

Man buried alive in pothole: Why blame netas if we can't change our attitude

What? I am sorry about the loss of life. It is horrifying but why shock? He fell into a pothole. Another 3000 people did the same in the past year. And seriously, you cannot blame the crew.

MP tragedy: Man falls into pothole in road, workers bury him alive

In an astonishing incidence of negligence, construction workers buried alive a man after he accidentally slipped into a pothole at an under-construction road in Madhya Pradesh.

Potholes as death traps: Why should the civic body go scot-free?

Imagine what could happen to the civic bodies which do not deliver quality if the law of torts were put to use for seeking and securing damages, even for a broken fork of a bike.

Mumbai's potholes, national malaise: rains, meetings, bribes, tenders

Pothole repairs is a ritual in the country’s financial capital. Mumbai's road work has been held hostage by a network of contractors, bureaucrats and lower level politicians. It’s the scene everywhere across the country.

Landmark? Next to the Sharad Pawar pothole

Mumbai’s civic infrastructure is in such a mess that if you tell a harried Mumbaikar like me that stale joke about NASA setting up lunar simulation centres on Mumbai’s potholed roads that are worse than lunar craters, you’ll get slapped.