Man dragged on Lok Sabha MP’s car bonnet for 2-3 kms in Delhi (Photo: Twitter)
New Delhi: In a shocking incident, a car belonging to Lok Sabha MP Chandan Singh was caught on camera driving with a person hanging on the bonnet for around two to three kilometres here, police said on Monday.
#WATCH | Delhi: At around 11 pm last night, a car coming from Ashram Chowk to Nizamuddin Dargah drove for around 2-3 kilometres with a person hanging on the bonnet. pic.twitter.com/54dOCqxWTh
The incident took place around 11 p.m. when the car was travelling from Ashram Chowk to Nizamuddin Dargah. The victim, however, did not suffer any injuries.
During the incident, the MP was not present in the car.
A senior police official said, “The driver of the car has been identified as Ramchandra and a case of rash and negligent driving has been lodged against him.”
The incident has sparked outrage among people on social media, with many demanding strict action against the driver.
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Lewis Hamilton has expressed cautious optimism that his Mercedes team are on the right track in terms of improving their car after a miserable start to the 2023 Formula One season.
Mercedes have already admitted they are to abandon their current car concept to adopt a new approach in an attempt to catch the championship leaders Red Bull and Hamilton believed his team were at least on the road to recovery.
Speaking before this weekend’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix, where Mercedes have brought the first of what is expected to be a swathe of small developments to the car, Hamilton was encouraged by the direction the team were taking and hopeful that the car might demonstrate it in Baku.
“I think it will be an upgrade, naturally, but I think it will be kind of the start of a new path for us,” he said. “It will be at the core still the same car, but part of the path of getting where we want to be.
“We’re not going to hit the ground and be where we wanted to be at the start of the season, we’re not making up that crazy ground that there is but I think it’s really positive, that so much great work has been done back in the factory to make time to progress in the right direction.”
Hamilton scored Mercedes’ first podium of the season at the last round in Australia but the team did not read too much into the result, believing it was likely track specific. They are third in the constructors’ championship, nine points behind Aston Martin and already 67 behind Red Bull who have a dominant car, with Max Verstappen leading the drivers’ championship. Mercedes are expected to bring their first major development of their car’s new concept to Imola in May.
F1 is adopting its new sprint race weekend format in Baku, with qualifying for the GP on Friday and then a standalone qualifying and sprint on Saturday, limiting practice to only one session. Hamilton remained hopeful Mercedes could at least get among the front runners, while welcoming the introduction of four competitive sessions over a weekend.
“The last race was really great for us, we worked hard to get that sort of result,” he said. “It won’t be easy to do that again, the Ferraris will be quick, the Red Bulls, the Astons. I just hope we are in the mix and with the shake up of the whole weekend, it’s probably the most exciting weekend so far.”
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The end of the road for the Bolt comes at the beginning of a new era for EVs.
Over the next two or three years, the availability of EVs is poised to transition from just one or two models per automaker to a full slate of vehicles, of many styles and at many price points. Vehicles like the tiny, wedge-shaped Bolt are less popular than SUVs and trucks.
That’s true both for customers, who can’t get enough of larger vehicles, and automakers, who need the higher profit margins from larger vehicles to fund the expensive EV transition.
Observers were conflicted over the Bolt’s demise and what it signifies.
In the eyes of some, it was fitting for the compact to go away as GM and other automakers prepare for an onslaught of models. Others were confounded that GM had chosen to discontinue America’s most inexpensive EV while demand is high.
Joel Levin, executive director of Plug In America, a nonprofit group that aims to broaden EV acceptance, said in an email that the move felt “premature.”
“The Bolt is at its peak right now. Sales are high. With great effort and expense, they’ve resolved the battery issues. It’s a great option for consumers that are looking for a long range vehicle at a reasonable price,” he said.
“It will definitely leave a hole in the market,” he added.
The Bolt and its larger cousin, the Bolt EUV, sold 38,000 units last year in the United States. It is the cheapest nationally with a starting price of $26,500. But it ranks as the No. 5 EV seller behind Tesla Inc.’s slate of EVs and the Ford Mach-E SUV.
GM now makes two other EVs, the Cadillac LYRIQ and the GMC Hummer, but both are much larger and more expensive and are so far available only in small volumes.
The Bolt’s decline is coming as GM gears up to bring new mass-market models to showrooms. They include the Chevy Equinox, which will start around $30,000, and the Chevy Blazer, at around $45,000. Both are expected to start production this year.
“The Chevrolet Bolt represents GM’s first serious electric vehicle effort,” said Karl Brauer, an analyst for iSeeCars.com, an automotive search engine. “But the Bolt represents GM’s electric vehicle past, not its future.”
For its part, GM said it was ending production of the Bolt because the factory in which it’s made needs to close for retooling.
The Orion plant, just north of Detroit, is preparing for the making of two electric pickup trucks, the GMC Sierra and the Chevrolet Silverado. “We’ve progressed so far that it’s now time to plan the end of Chevrolet Bolt EV and EUV production,” GM CEO Mary Barra said on a call with investors Tuesday to announce the company’s most recent financial results.
Third time’s not the charm
GM is infamous for killing electric cars.
Way back in 2002, after a short run, it ended production of the EV1, America’s very first mass-produced EV. The opaque reasons behind its termination led to the documentary “Who Killed the Electric Car?” which turned the EV into a political cause and an early actor in the emerging debate over climate change.
Between the EV1 and the Bolt — and another, smaller experiment called the Spark — came another high-profile EV. Like that Bolt, it would come to market with innovative technology and high expectations but meet with disappointing sales.
Even its name was similar: It was called the Volt.
Today, the Volt’s vehicle class is called a plug-in hybrid. When it was introduced in 2010, however, no one knew what to call it. China was the first to introduce the basic idea: a vehicle that runs primarily on a battery, with a backup gasoline engine. When GM introduced its version to American drivers, it called it an “extended range electric car.”
Sales never reached GM’s hopes; the car ended production in 2018 having sold a total of about 177,000 units. By comparison, Tesla sold more than 462,000 EVs in the United States in the last year alone.
What would become the Volt’s successor — the Bolt — was introduced at the Detroit Auto Show in 2015.
It ditched the backup gasoline engine and was pure electric. It was similar in size to another mass-market EV, the Nissan LEAF, which had been introduced in 2010.
However, the Bolt was the first attempt by a U.S.-based automaker to make a pure-electric vehicle intended to be sold in every state, not just to meet regulatory requirements in California.
Its proposition was very similar to what ended up becoming the reality: a range of 200 miles or better with a price around $30,000. At the time, Barra called it “a game-changing electric vehicle designed for attainability, not exclusivity.”
“In some ways, everything about the Bolt seemed like a good idea,” said Mike Ramsey, an auto analyst for the consultancy Gartner, of the Bolt. “It provided a very nice range at a relatively low price.”
While the Bolt had its fans, the compact never generated a ton of excitement.
“Seeing one of these on the road doesn’t evoke any strong emotions in the looks department,” wrote Zander Sutton, an automotive blogger, in a review of the Bolt EUV, which was introduced in 2016. “They were never the prettiest cars on the road … but there’s little to be offended by.”
Any buzz that the Bolt may have generated was sucked up by another entry-level EV that became a global sensation: the Tesla Model 3. It was “a stylish car with better performance and range — albeit at a higher price.” Ramsey said.
Then, in 2021, a safety problem engulfed the Bolt brand. A series of battery fires destroyed 16 Bolts, resulting in a series of recalls that came to encompass every Bolt that GM had sold. Drivers were warned “to park their vehicles outside and away from structures, and to not charge the vehicles overnight.”
“That took most of the wind out of the sails for the Bolt and unfortunately consigned it to a sort of second-tier product,” Ramsey said.
Finally, technology is passing the Bolt by.
In 2020, GM said that all its future models would share a new battery technology, called Ultium. The platform, co-developed with Korean battery maker LG Chem Ltd., is the basis for all of GM’s upcoming slate of EVs, including models now on the market like the Cadillac LYRIQ and the GMC Hummer.
“GM likely was faced with a decision about updating and/or refreshing the Bolt with new electrical systems to support its other services-based ambitions,” Ramsey said, “and decided it would discontinue it rather than not have the capabilities the other EVs in the lineup would have.”
A version of this report first ran in E&E News’ Climatewire. Get access to more comprehensive and in-depth reporting on the energy transition, natural resources, climate change and more in E&E News.
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A Pizza Express in Woking. The inability to sweat. A tendency to be “too honourable”. Prince Andrew’s 2019 Newsnight interview was a bonanza of bizarre excuses – in which he disastrously tried to defend himself from allegations that he had sex with a 17-year-old girl trafficked by his friend Jeffrey Epstein. Greeted with a riot of disbelief, anger and meme-making by the public, it was the most explosive royal interview of the decade. But how on Earth did it happen in the first place?
A new documentary, airing as part of Channel 4’s alternative coronation coverage, is lifting the lid on this remarkably misguided interview. But Andrew: The Problem Prince kicks off with an entirely different TV appearance. It’s 1985 and the prince is primarily known as a pin-up, playboy and the Falklands hero who risked his life for his country. He is also known as Randy Andy, a nickname referenced by his interviewer on this occasion, a giggling Selina Scott. Andrew shrugs it off with remarkably easy charm and humour. The audience howls in approval. “It was a badge of honour then – the idea of this young prince cutting a swathe through the aristocratic women of London was something to be admired,” says James Goldston, former president of ABC News and one of the documentary’s producers. “There was zero conversation at the time about: are there ethical or moral issues involved in this?”
Fast-forward three decades and Sam McAlister, a guest booker on Newsnight, receives an email from a PR company offering an interview with Prince Andrew about his charity work. She declines on the grounds that it sounds like a puff piece, but the exchange prompts months of negotiations about a more wide-ranging interview, which is again rejected by McAlister because the palace has a single stipulation: all questions about convicted paedophile and financier Jeffrey Epstein are off the table.
But then Epstein is found dead in his New York prison cell. Until that point, the man Newsnight’s Emily Maitlis describes as “America’s Jimmy Savile” had been a peripheral figure in the public consciousness: now he is centre stage, and the prince’s friendship with him is under the media’s microscope. Eventually, Andrew’s team change their minds. McAlister – whose book Scoops: The BBC’s Most Shocking Interviews from Steven Seagal to Prince Andrew, was the inspiration for this documentary – can barely believe her luck.
Emily Maitlis. Photograph: Channel 4
It only gets weirder from there. Andrew brings his daughter Beatrice to a meeting with McAlister and Maitlis. He seems delighted after the interview, inviting the Newsnight team to stick around for a cinema night at Buckingham Palace. It’s only when the Queen receives the transcript, and Andrew receives a “tap on the shoulder” from the palace (according to Maitlis), that the catastrophe becomes clear to him. The interview then prompts Virginia Giuffre – who claims the prince had sex with her on several occasions when she was 17 – to pursue Andrew legally. The lawyers interviewed for the documentary “are very specific”, says Goldston. “What he said opened the door to bringing that legal action which ultimately destroyed him.” In 2022, Andrew settled out of court.
Andrew: The Problem Prince is expressly not a “hatchet job”, says Sheldon Lazarus, another of the programme’s producers. Instead, it’s an attempt to anchor Andrew’s behaviour and decisions within the broader context of his life: despite his status and knack for making headlines, Lazarus believes there has never been an in-depth documentary about him before. We hear how the Queen indulged him as a child, and how Andrew’s finances meant he could never afford the lavish life he had become accustomed to. While Charles had an annual income of £20m, Andrew had to make do with a yearly allowance of £249,000 from the Queen. “By most standards that’s a lot of money, but to live a royal lifestyle, it’s obviously not enough. You feel that he’s being set up for failure,” says Goldston.
Queen Elizabeth II with her sons: Prince Edward next to her, and Prince Charles and Prince Andrew behind, in 1976. Photograph: Anwar Hussein/Getty Images
One of the most notorious moments in the Newsnight interview sees Maitlis ask Andrew whether he regrets consorting with Epstein. No, he replies, because the opportunities he got from it “were actually very useful”. According to Lazarus, the producers found themselves asking a question: “If he had been wealthier, would he have made better decisions, and not got into this crowd in order to keep up with the Joneses – or the Windsors?”
Tonally, the documentary team had to tread carefully. While the Newsnight interview was inescapably comic in content, its subject was a set of extremely serious and disturbing crimes. “I think you can use humour in the most serious of circumstances, as long as it’s done appropriately,” says Goldston, whose other job at the time was overseeing the coverage of the January 6 committee hearings in Washington DC.
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After all, much of what goes on with the royals veers between farce and something far more troubling. One of the standout moments from the documentary is an interview with the former – yet still palpably annoyed – deputy British ambassador in Bahrain, who recounts Andrew’s freewheeling and ultimately very damaging input as a trade envoy in the early 2000s. “I love the line that ultimately his boss is the Queen – there was just no accountability,” says Lazarus. The diplomat also tells of how the prince refused to stay in ambassadorial residences, instead hiring out luxury hotels to house his thank-you letter-writer and valet.
The Problem Prince isn’t just about the titular royal, however. It’s “a celebration of the power of journalism,” says Goldston, who admits to feeling “kind of jealous” about the Newsnight scoop at the time. It’s also an insight into a rather mysterious job: that of the celebrity booker. “I’ve worked in journalism for 30 years and been involved in a lot of big gets: presidents, prime ministers, celebrities,” he says. “The art of the booking has always fascinated me – how does that happen?” Goldston ran Good Morning America “at the height of the morning wars and watched these bookers go after these things every day. It’s a phenomenal feat of endurance.”
It’s a world Lazarus is also familiar with, having started his career booking guests for Paula Yates’s On the Bed segment on Channel 4’s The Big Breakfast – a job he admits wasn’t beholden to the same journalistic ethics as Newsnight. “I definitely wouldn’t have said no to Andrew,” he says. “He could have come and juggled – he could have done whatever he wanted!”
The documentary provides an intimate insight into the big-name interview, but its headline question – why Andrew decided to appear on Newsnight in the first place – is ultimately left unanswered. Maitlis suggests it may have been an attempt to clear his name for his daughters’ sake, while Goldston thinks the media pressure meant “he was going to have to confront it head on and that’s how they end up saying yes”. That, however, doesn’t explain why he went against the guidance of trusted advisers, including media lawyer Paul Tweed, who claims in the documentary that he warned Andrew not to do it.
Instead, you come away with the sense that it was driven by a heady cocktail of yes-men-powered delusion and extreme naivety (he was “not intellectual”, according to royal biographer Andrew Lownie, while Tina Brown’s The Palace Papers claims that Epstein called the prince “an idiot”). Yet this cluelessness wasn’t limited to Andrew himself. Goldston recalls McAlister telling him that as the interview concluded, a member of the prince’s staff leaned over to her and muttered, “‘Isn’t he marvellous?’ That lack of understanding of what had just happened was pretty profound.”
The documentary ends with a portrait of an underemployed Andrew living in the shadows. And yet Tweed, who appears in the documentary with the blessing of the prince and his family, suggests something that seems currently unthinkable: the idea that the prince might make a return to public life. Is there any world in which this could happen?
“I think they live in hope that they can still turn this round, which is actually a very interesting idea,” says Goldston. “[Tweed] has seen a lot of these cases. Who knows?” Never say never, but if the royal family wants to survive until the next coronation, it seems that Andrew – utterly tone-deaf, entitled beyond belief and morally dubious, at best – is everything it must leave behind.
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New Delhi: In a shocking incident on late Tuesday, a rickshaw puller was badlu injured after being dragged for around 200 meters by a car driven recklessly on Firoz Shah Road in the New Delhi area, police said.
At the location of the incident, there were slippers that possibly belonged to the victim and blood splattered across the road.
Deputy Commissioner of Police, New Delhi, Pranav Tayal said that the injured had been taken to Ram Manohar Lohia hospital for treatment, where he is said to be out of danger and is fit to give a statement.
The victim has been identified as Manoj (25), who works in housekeeping and also plies a rickshaw.
The driver was apprehended from the spot.
According to the police, the medical examination of the accused driver, identified as Farman, 25, a resident of Murad Nagar near Ghaziabad, will ascertain whether he was under the influence of alcohol or not.
The official said that the car hit the cycle rickshaw on Firoz Shah road and subsequently dragged Manoj for some distance.
Tayal said that the crime team had arrived at the spot and legal action is being taken.
The police have seized the Maruti Swift car involved in the accident, and it had also sustained damage to its front side.
This event has sparked memories of the dreadful Kanjhawala accident that occurred on January 1. During that incident, a 20-year-old woman was struck by a car, and died an agonising death as her body was dragged under the vehicle for nearly 90 minutes, covering approximately 10-12 km before being discovered naked and mutilated on the road.
Jerusalem: A Palestinian man rammed a car into pedestrians near a street market in Jerusalem, injuring five people before he was shot and killed, Israeli police said in a statement.
The incident took place on Monday on a busy street next to Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda Market, a crowded souk in the city centre, reports Xinhua news agency.
The suspect, a 39-year-old Palestinian man from the town of Beit Safafa in Jerusalem, was “neutralised” and killed at the scene, according to the statement.
CCTV footage shows that the driver deliberately crashed his car into the crowd, and “a preliminary examination has ruled out any mechanical fault in the vehicle”, Israeli police said.
Israel’s rescue service Magen David Adom said in a statement that a 70-year-old man sustained serious wounds in the attack.
At a ceremony to mark Israel’s Memorial Day for fallen soldiers, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the attack was “another attempt to murder Israeli citizens”.
“These terrorist attacks come with the expectation that they will overcome us and will uproot us from here, and if they could, they would murder us all. But they will not overcome us; we will overcome them.”
Following the attack, Israel is on heightened alert ahead of Memorial Day, which commemorates soldiers and civilians who have been killed in conflict and attacks since 1860, the BBC reported.
The occasion leads into Independence Day on Tuesday night and Wednesday. The day is celebrated with patriotic events, with this year marking Israel’s 75th anniversary.
Monday’s attack comes amid a surge in Israeli-Palestinian violence this year.
It came hours after Israeli troops shot and killed a 20-year-old Palestinian man in the Aqbat Jaber refugee camp in the West Bank during an arrest raid.
Since the start of this year, more than 90 Palestinians — militants and civilians — have been killed by Israeli forces.
Eighteen Israelis, a Ukrainian and an Italian — all civilians, except for an Israeli paramilitary police officer — have been also killed in attacks by (or suspected to have been carried out by) Palestinians and, in one case, an Israeli Arab.
(Except for the headline, the story has not been edited by Siasat staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
Baramulla, Apr 18:A rashly driven car rammed into a roadside tree at Trumgund village of North Kashmir’s Sopore town, killing the minor girl and leaving two others on board including the driver of the vehicle injured.
According to the police, a speeding car (JK09A- 6032) was on its way to Srinagar from Baramulla. As it reached near Trumgund area, the driver lost control over the vehicle and it rammed into a road side tree. The hit was so fierce that the trunk of the big poplar tree was damaged.
The villagers informed the police about the incident and the three persons on board including the driver were rushed to Sub-District Hospital but he doctors declared one among them brought dead who has been identified as 12-year-old girl Snowbal Maqbool, a resident of Trumgund village of Sopore.
Police have registered a case under relevant sections of law and further investigation is in progress. [KNT]
Hyderabad: City police commissioner CV Anand laid the foundation stone of the new building for the proposed creche at the City Armed Reserve (CAR) Headquarters.
The creche facility for women police officers will be constructed at an estimated cost of Rs 4.5 crores funded by Megha Engineering and Infrastructures Limited (MEIL), director Pamireddy Rama Reddy as part of corporate social responsibility project.
The one storied building is expected to be completed by November 14. The facility can accommodate 100 children aged below 5 years and will be equipped with a separate kitchen to ensure that the children receive healthy and nutritious meals, said a press release.
The facility will be staffed by trained professionals who will provide personalised care and attention to the children. Indoor and outdoor play area, cradles and feeding rooms, medical rooms, dormitory for pregnant women with storage facility, CCTV monitoring and other amenities will be provided.
Commissioner CV Anand addressing the audience said that he was happy as the women officers are now getting better facilities at the workplace. “11.5% of 18,432 personnel working in Hyderabad City Police are Women and it is important that despite all the difficulties, women should bravely take on challenging roles and break the stereotypes,” he added.
“We are committed to creating a supportive and inclusive workplace culture for all our women officers. This project will provide a much-needed facility for our women officers who are also mothers, allowing them to balance their professional and personal responsibilities more effectively” Anand said.
Gurugram: A car with a fake number plate carrying about 250kg buffalo meat overturned on Sohna road and the occupants of the vehicle escaped, police said on Saturday.
They said the Hyundai Venue was speeding away on the wrong side of the road when it overturned. The vehicle was damaged badly.
Police officials found nearly 250kg of buffalo meat in the car bearing HR 28 K 6492 on its number plate.
During investigation, it was found that the real number of the vehicles was HR-27-L 8360.
An FIR has been registered at the Badshahpur police station and further investigation is underway.
Raids are being cinducted to nab the occupants of the car, said a senior police official.
