India, Sept. 20 -- Deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde's recent banning of heavy vehicles on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad national highway and Ghodbunder Road from midnight till 6 am was meant to solve the perennial traffic jams on the stretch. However, by all accounts, it has only served to worsen the situation. On Thursday evening, an injured 16-month-old child became a casualty after his family's car was trapped for hours in a 20 km-to 25-km-long traffic jam on NH-48.

Ryan Shaikh, a resident of Kurla, who was at his grandmother's house in Pelhar in Vasai taluka, fell off her fourth-floor balcony while playing. He was rushed to Galaxy Hospital in Vasai, where his parents were advised to rush him to a hospital in Mumbai. The family looked for a...