Drive against polluting vehicles from outside City
All vehicles entering into Bangalore city will be checked for pollution and those vehicles which emit smoke beyond the prescribed standards under the Air(Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981, will be prevented from entering the Bangalore City from February 14.
Drive against polluting vehicles launched
The Bangalore State Transport Department, in association with the traffic police, launched joint-checking of vehicles in Bangalore city from today, to check violations of pollution norms, and plying of vehicles of other states without paying tax in Karnataka.
Campaign launched against smoke emitting vehicles
The environmental protection squad has launched a special campaign against the smoke emitting vehicles in Faisalabad (Pakistan). During the first phase of the campaign the owners of the smoke emitting vehicles are being given warning to tune up their vehicles within a period of one week.
Delhi Govt set to pump out adulteration
After vehicles, it is now the turn of petrol pumps. To complement its drive against polluting vehicles, the Delhi government has decided to sniff out petrol pumps selling adulterated petrol and diesel. If the reports doing the rounds are to be believed, naphtha is found in generous amounts in petrol, …
Bijlee on road to a cleaner Delhi
Bijlee scooters is a project of the Mahindras and Scooters India, with help from the Delhi Energy Development Agency. They are getting ready to hit the roads by January-end.
Stop Mumbai from turning into a gas chamber
Sometimes one gets the feeling that it it weren't for Public Interest Litigation (PIL), nothing good would ever happen in India. And if it weren't for Dr Sandeep Rane's recent PIL in the Bombay High Court (high lighting the alarming levels of vehicular pollution in the city), the decision to …
DTC may fail to meet SC deadline
The countdown has begun for the Delhi Government to phase out all eight-year-old DTC buses or replace them with CNG engines to comply with the Supreme Court's directions. But judging from the pace of implementation, the Government looks all set to lose the race. Already a strong feeling is emerging …
MOPE mulling policy change
With few micro-buses plying the roads of the Kathmandu Valley the Nepal government might soon review its pro environmental decisions, sources sai. In what was widely perceived as "bold" decision aimed at improving the capital's deteriorating air quality, the government in September imposed a ban on diesel operated three-wheelers, popularly …
