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Can someone ID this snake? A friend spotted it. This is in Punjab.

Not sure, but looks like a Checkered Keelback. Usually found near water bodies, non-venomous.

I was taking my dog out for a walk when I noticed something near my car and all of a sudden my dog was on alert too . When I went near to enquire , snake climbed up to the chassis and hid somewhere inside the engine compartment . I slowly opened the hood of the car and used water hose to spray water in the engine bay and nearby spots and suddenly my father saw it trying to escape , I took a foot back and it went into the wood’s nearby. I did give a call to local NGO but they were unable to locate the snake . It was not my first encounter the snake as our home is located near green belt but it was first time when a snake tried to climb up the car.

Certainly not a Checkered keelback with that long slender body and triangular head.
This one looks like a Forsten's cat snake. Beautiful snake. Not harmful for humans.

Yeah, definitely a Forsten's Cat Snake. Has mild poison and is not radically harmful to humans. Larger fangs in rear of its jaw give the head that distinctive long pronounced jaw line. It's eyes are cat-like with vertical pupils hence the name.

Thanks for the correction guys! And the information, beautiful snake indeed.

I came across this juvenile Himalayan Snow Cobra last week in the front range not far from Dharamsala. Their white color helps them blend perfectly with the high snow fields that are their home. They sometimes hang out in teenage gangs. Such gangs are known locally for springing out of the deep snow to trip up trekkers, causing them to fall on their faces in the snowdrifts. This is often accompanied by tittering and guffawing from the idle teenage snow cobras whose delinquency has become a nuisance in recent years. Adult snakes build campfires some nights and retell ancient Naga legends. Afterwards the snow cobras kick back and listen to Pavoroti and Hemant Kumar on their electricals before turning in. They are thriving despite reduction of habitat and questionable taste in music.

Yesterday I was driving in a lesser known part of Manipal and saw this rat snake run across the road.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzU0r7IY_EQ

Spotted a 'creepy' visitor at our plantation!

That's a Banded krait. It is poisonous.

A friend, for whom herpetology is a hobby, reckons it a kind of Pit Viper.

Pit Vipers don't have bands like this. I think it is a banded krait. In Tulu we call it Kadambala. Vipers are Kandhodi.

Could be wolf snake too considering it is quite small in comparison to the vegetation around it.

Most probably this is an ornate flying snake. The yellow bands in the head, yellow rings with orange marks on the body are pointers. Mildly venomous but not fatal for humans

Krait wont have the bands on the head. Pit Vipers are easier to indentify - triangular head with a pit on their noses

The snake actually fell down from a cocoa plant branch and my labourers identified it as "Raktha Mandali". Based on this information which I conveyed to my friend, he supposed it to be a variant of Pit Vipers.

"Pachche Mandali" (Tulu/Kannada term) is another variant generally found on Cocoa plants. However, I know very little about these deadly 'creepers'. :coldsweat

Yes, you are right! It indeed is Ornate Flying Snake. I couldn't send the picture to my friend earlier, which I did late in the evening. His words exactly matched yours!! :)
Attaching the screenshot of my whatsapp conversation with him.