Delhi, it seems, is the India's accident capital as well. It accounts for one-fourth of the 10,500 deaths that occur due to road accidents in 23 metropolitan cities of India. Says Dr A K Gupta, director, Central Road Research Institute, more than 70,000 people die every year in the country because of road accidents, the world's highest. Fifteen per cent of these fatalities, he said, take place in the 23 metropolitan cities and another 35 per cent occur on National Highways.

n Sycophancy was always all about parroting. And now the parrots have come out in support of beleaguered Bihar chief minister Laloo Prasad Yadav, according to an agency report. Janata Dal cultural cell president O N Mausami has trained his parrots to say "Laloo Nirdosh Hai". Mausami said the parrots would also perform near the Supreme Court in New Delhi.

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