India to use Facebook, Twitter to curb road accidents (Second Lead)

September 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Social networking sites Facebook, Twitter and YouTube will be made use of by the Indian government to spread the message of safe driving, transport officials said Monday. "For generating mass awareness about road safety, apart from using traditional media tools including advertising, billboards and posters, modern web based social networking tools that include Facebook, blogs, Twitter and YouTube will be used to spread knowledge of road safety," K.K.

September 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways and International Road Federation (IRF) are planning to use social networking websites including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to help reduce fatal accidents by 50 percent in the next three years, officials said Monday. For generating mass awareness about road safety, apart from using traditional media tools including advertising, billboards, posters, modern web based social networking tools that include Facebook, blogs, Twitter and YouTube will be used to spread knowledge of road safety, K.K.

September 25th, 2009 JAKARTA - More than 470 people have been killed in road accidents as millions of Indonesian revellers returned to major cities after celebrating the Muslim festival of Eid ul-Fitr in their home towns, media reports said Friday. A family of six was killed in a collision in East Java province Thursday when a minivan hit an intercity bus, bringing the number of people killed in road accidents in the past two days to more than 100, the newspaper Kompas reported.

August 18th, 2009 NOIDA - Two labourers were killed in separate hit and run road accidents in Noida, police said Tuesday. Ramdev, a worker in a private company, was crushed to death when an unidentified vehicle ran over him near Sector-40 late Monday, according to police.

August 12th, 2009 What is Facebook lite? Well it appears as it looks-  a lighter version of Facebook, or might be a micro facebook that will offer users a "faster, simpler version of Facebook with a Twitter-like experience. Reportedly , tonight, a number of Facebook users have received beta invitations to a 'lite' version of the popular social networking service.

July 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The first visit to India by Hillary Clinton as U.S. Secretary of State will not only be covered by the traditional press,but also by the online media community.

July 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - You don't have to switch on the television or get a ticket to a high-security event to follow the visit of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton - it doesn't need more than a click of the mouse. Clinton, who arrived in India Friday night on a five-day visit, will be covered on the social networking sites of Twitter, Flickr and Facebook, through accounts run by the US Department of State Bureau of International Information Programs.

July 14th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Alarmed over the rising number of road accidents before sunrise due to "sleepy drivers", Andhra Pradesh is planning to ban movement of buses and other heavy vehicles between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. The transport authority plans to issue orders to keep these vehicles off the highways in the early hours to bring down the number of accidents, Transport Minister S.

June 24th, 2009 Bus plunge into gorge kills 25 in northern IndiaJAMMU, India — A passenger bus plunged into a gorge in northern India early Wednesday, killing at least 25 people. An additional 40 people were injured in the accident near Panthal, a town about 30 miles (50 kilometers) north of Jammu, a major city in Jammu-Kashmir state, senior police official Anand Jain said.

June 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The national capital tops in road accidents in the metros, with pedestrians accounting for almost half the fatalities in Delhi as road conditions are most unsafe for them, a new report says According to the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) report released Friday, the total number of accidents in Delhi is almost 2.5 times higher than that of Kolkata, and 2.1 times higher than Chennai. Pedestrians in Delhi, where a third of working people walk to work, accounted for 47 per cent of fatalities in these accidents.

May 1st, 2009 Pentagon uses Facebook, Twitter to spread messageFORT MONROE, Va. — You don't often hear a three-star general using the word "friend" as a verb.

May 1st, 2009 Pentagon looks to Facebook, TwitterFORT MONROE, Va. — You don't often hear a three-star general using the word "friend" as a verb.

April 29th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Hollywood actress Evan Rachel Wood was left baffled when she discovered she had a loyal fanbase on the micro-blogging site Twitter, because she doesn't even use the site. Evan was dazed to realize that an impostor had gathered the attention of her zillion fans by posing as her.

April 14th, 2009 LONDON - Hollywood actress Keira Knightly has revealed that she hates social networking websites such as Twitter and Facebook. "I hate the internet," the Sun quoted her as saying.

April 7th, 2009 WASHINGTON - High School Musical star Zac Efron has revealed that he has not signed up for Twitter, MySpace or Facebook. Efron, 21, says that he values his privacy and does not like to have his personal life open to all.