Gps tracker

Nearly 95,000 passenger vehicles now have GPS trackers for women's safety

A total of 94,974 vehicles have these GPS-enabled devices. If a passenger presses the red panic button inside the vehicle, an alert is sent immediately to the control room with the vehicle’s details and location, officials said

14 September, 2025 09:39 PM IST | mid-day online correspondent

Nearly 95,000 passenger vehicles in Maharashtra are now fitted with GPS tracking devices. Representational Pic/File

GPS-tagged vulture’s 4,000-km journey ends in tragic electrocution

On January 2, mid-day carried a story, ‘GPS-tagged vulture travels 4000 km from Tadoba sanctuary in Maharashtra to Tamil Nadu’, which highlighted how a vulture fitted with a satellite tag at Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve had reached Tamil Nadu. Before reaching the southern state, the vulture travelled from Maharashtra to Chhattisgarh, then Gujarat

17 January, 2025 08:08 AM IST | Ranjeet Jadhav