<p>A total of 3,66,138 road accidents occurred in India during the calendar year 2020, causing 1,31,714 deaths, Parliament was informed on Thursday.</p>
<p>In a reply to the Lok Sabha, Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari said that as many as 1,51,113 people were killed in road accidents in India during 2019, while the total number of accidents in the country stood at 4,49,002.</p>
<p>On Wednesday, the minister had told the Rajya Sabha that the number of pedestrians killed in road accidents across the country last calendar year fell to 23,483.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Gadkari said a total of 25,858 pedestrians were killed in road accidents across the country during the calendar year 2019.&nbsp;</p>
<h2>1,622 plaints on judiciary functioning in 5 yrs</h2>
<p>Over 1,600 complaints were received in the Centralised Public Grievance Redress and Monitoring System on the functioning of the judiciary, including corruption, during the last five years, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Thursday. These 1,622 complaints were sent to the Chief Justice of India or HC chief justices concerned as per the established &ldquo;in-house mechanism&rdquo;, Law Minister Kiren Rijiju said.</p>
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