Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
Campaign will draw attention to issues - car pooling, affordable and reliable mobility options Uber on Wednesday launched a nationwide campaign called "Decongest India", starting with New Delhi, to curb congestion and pollution. As part of the campaign, the cab aggregator will focus on reducing congestion through shared mobility across …
Salem: Young Indians (Yi), an initiative of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), organised an awareness programme on health hazards caused by excessive honking here on Tuesday. Assistant city police commissioner, M Barathi, inaugurated the drive. Police personnel and volunteers of Young Indians participated in the campaign. They talked to the …
Union Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan said a study had found that the white marble of the historic monument was turning yellow due to carbon pollution. New Delhi: The Taj Trapezium Zone (TTZ) Authority has banned petrol and diesel vehicles within 500 metre of Taj Mahal, the government said in the …
Bharat State VI standards prescribe vehicular emission norms that are “fuel neutral” wherein the gap between emission from diesel and petrol vehicles considerably narrows. Though the Auto Fuel Policy suggested by expert committee headed by R.A. Mashelkar had earlier set an April 2024 deadline for BS VI norms, the Ministry …
Create a law-abiding culture, the Delhi High Court has said while cautioning the Centre and the AAP government against issuance of pollution under control (PUC) certificates to polluting vehicles in the city. A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar also expressed concern over the …
Modern diesel cars emit less pollution than vehicles fuelled by gasoline or petrol, a study suggests. “Diesel has a bad reputation because you can see the pollution, but it is actually the invisible pollution that comes from petrol in cars that is worse,” said Patrick Hayes, an assistant professor at …
Mumbai : With a view to significantly bring down pollution levels, the government has decided to adopt and implement in totality the automobile standards in developed countries, union minister for shipping, road transport and highways, Nitin Gadkari said at an ASSOCHAM event held in New Delhi. “Yesterday itself, we have …
Delhi-Ludhiana double-decker service planned The government is looking to revamp public transport through introduction of double-decker luxury buses run on alternative fuels, with an aim to curb private vehicle use, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said today. Volvo is ready to run buses on methanol, which can easily be manufactured in …
Petitioners also raised the issue of the State writing to the Centre, asking it to relax noise rules during festivals. The Bombay High Court on Wednesday directed the state government to immediately set up a grievance redressal mechanism, before the festive season begins, for citizens to complain about violation of …
Delhi crossed the 10 million mark of total vehicle registrations in 2017. New Delhi: For daily commuters in Delhi, what has been the general experience is now being backed by hard statistics. The Centre for Science and Environment’s new assessment of travel time and traffic speed in Delhi shows that …
Constitutes 100 teams to check pollution in units In order to create awareness for prevention and control of pollution in the state, the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) has constituted 100 teams headed by environmental engineers of different ranks to make owners of units aware, besides warning them against spreading …
The traffic 'rush hour' extends from 8am to 8pm on arterial roads of Delhi, with average speeds not exceeding 30 kmph 92% of the time, reveals a Centre for Science and Environment study that analysed Google Maps data for last month. Surprisingly , the study also found that traffic congestion …
The bench said, “We permit 20 vehicles of the fire department to be registered by the RTO Delhi which are conforming to BS-IV norms. These vehicles should be used only for the purpose of fire tending and not any other purpose”. The National Green Tribunal (NGT) Monday allowed the registration …
Volume of traffic has shot up with over 10 million vehicles on the road while average speed has plunged Traffic on Delhi’s arterial roads has become slower than ever, the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has found. Not just this, the congestion and consequent pollution is also getting worse. …
Over 200 vehicles of the Municipal Corporation (MC) of Jalandhar are being plied in the city without any annual fitness certification for the past many years. These also include tractors and trailers which have even been banned by the Punjab and Haryana High Court. The fact was revealed after RTI …
France will end sales of petrol and diesel vehicles by 2040 as part of an ambitious plan to meet its targets under the Paris climate accord, Emmanuel Macron’s government has announced. The announcement comes a day after Volvo said it would only make fully electric or hybrid cars from 2019 …
AHMEDABAD - A plan to combat extreme heat in India's Ahmedabad city has been so effective in raising awareness and bringing down fatalities that city officials are rolling out a similar programme to fight another environmental risk: air pollution. Ahmedabad, in the western state of Gujarat, has among the worst …
Officials cite study during traffic diversion from Nrupathunga Road Bengaluru’s prime lung space is no green retreat for the gasping city’s residents. A recent study by the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) shows that there is a rise in air and noise pollution in Cubbon Park due to increase …
All new cars launched by Volvo from 2019 onwards will be partially or completely battery-powered, in what the company called a “historic end” to building models that only have an internal combustion engine. Between 2019 and 2021, the firm will introduce five 100% electric models, and ensure the rest of …
The government has won the latest court challenge over the UK’s air pollution crisis. Environmental lawyers ClientEarth had argued that ministers’ draft proposals to improve air quality – which contributes to tens of thousands of deaths each year – were unlawful. But at the high court in London on Wednesday …
