Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Dr. Amit Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 28/05/2025. The applicant has raised a grievance against setting up of a tyre pyrolysis plant by M/s Adideva Carbon LLP. According to the applicant, the tyre pyrolysis plant has …
april 1, 2001 , the date set by the Supreme Court ( sc ) for the Delhi Transport Corporation ( dtc ) to convert its entire bus fleet to compressed natural gas ( cng ), is also All Fool's Day. And, going by the present state of affairs, it may …
DTC Private Total number of buses at present 2,522 2,978 * Total number of buses more than eight-years-old by March 31, 2000 1,848 1,030 Total number of buses by April 1, 2001 10,000 **
Private bus owners have a different story to tell The Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) will never win a medal for transparency if one goes by what it takes to gain access to even the simplest information in their possession. Extracting even the name and contact number of some private bus-owners …
Recent media reports about the heating up of a Ashok Leyland CNG bus on a trial run in the capital led to much confusion. The bus was introduced in state transport minister Parvez Hashmi's constituency on June 26. "For a few days, it was very hot in the driver's cabin. …
What is the EPCA doing to get the Supreme Court order on CNG buses implemented within the stipulated deadline? We have talked to all the parties concerned
Pakistan natural gas reserves will be depleted by year 2010-2015 before new discoveries are made, petroleum minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan informed the National Assembly. "If consumption of existing resources continues at a fast pace, these reserves will be depleted before new gas reserves can be discovered,' he said. The …
The Delhi government is planning to approach the Supreme Court to permit autorickshaws and taxis that are 15 years' old and running on compressed natural gas (CNG) to ply in the capital. The court prohibits autorickshaws and taxis older than 10 years from operating in Delhi. According to a spokesperson …
in an attempt to make compressed natural gas ( cng ) more affordable, the environment ministry has asked the finance ministry for a reduction in import duty on cng kits. Presently, there is an import duty of 70 per cent on the kits, forcing the car owners to shell out …
T he judges were angry. Very angry. They had reason to be. It is a well-known fact that pollution has already risen dramatically in the last two decades in India. To make matters worse, the automobile fleet was also growing by leaps and bounds. If automobiles with poor engine technology …
The concept paper describes the problems of the city of Agra and the anxeityy of the Hon'ble Supreme Court articulated in the various orders passed in connection with the Writ Petition (Civil) No. 13381/84-M.C. Mehta Vs. Union of India & Others. The paper also goes on to describe the various …
the energy crisis that raised its fearsome head in the 1970s is not really over yet. Threatening to bring the industrial world to a grinding halt, it finds new guises to sustain itself. The two billion people across the globe for whom clean, safe and cheap fuel remains inaccessible can …
fuel treatment: Japanese scientists have developed a new fuel treatment that could reduce emissions from truck diesel engines. The technology could allow vehicle manufacturers to meet new emission standards. The process called Soltron will be marketed and manufactured by US-based firm Solpower. Soltron is a fuel enhancing fluid that works …
THE INDIAN hotel industry churns out a composite mixture of paper, plastics, textiles, metal, glass and leftover food every day. Astonishingly, huge amounts of paper wastage is from sources such as newspapers, bills, computer paper, and toilet and wrapping paper, There are over 500 hotels in Delhi alone ,and they …
A prototype fuel cell that can turn every household into a mini power station has recently been developed at Keele University in Staffordshire, UK. Chemist Kevin Kendall and his colleagues have incorporated a ceramic battery into a conventional gas-powered water heater. Free electrons produced by the combustion of natural gas …
THE Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGc)-Videsh Ltd, currently operating in Vietnam, has discovered gas in the offshore area with reserves estimated at three trillion cubic metres which would help trigger a range of activities for Indian companies in the downstream and midstream areas, besides allowing ongc to plough back …
natural gas is one of the most promising fuels available to us. It is cleaner than most other fossil fuels and is available in plenty. The only problem is its transportation, which in the absence of pipelines, is virtually impossible. Till such time as pipelines are not laid, we have …
global stocks of natural gas are enormous. Industry analysts estimate that the world holds enough recoverable natural gas to produce 500 billion barrels of synthetic crude. If this gas is converted into liquid form, it can provide fuel for nearly a decade after conventional supplies of crude oil begin to …
A metal catalyst may one day bring cheaper fuel. Flemming Besenbacher of the University of Aarhus, and Jens Norskov at the Technical University, Copenhagen, Denmark, took a catalyst for steam reforming, where hydrocarbons from natural gas are converted to molecular hydrogen and carbon monoxide that can be used to produce …
The Thailand government's ambitious plans of buying natural gas from Burma and transporting it home through pipelines have met with stiff opposition from the local residents and nature conservation groups. This is because the pipelines would pass through forests and the construction work would damage the forest cover to a …
DANISH FIRM IN INDIA: A S Velfrost, a US $200-million Danish freezer and deep freezer manufacturer, is considering India as a possible manufacturing base, its first outside Denmark. According to executives, a deal is being negotiated with Blue Star India for a joint venture. However, the plans have not taken …
