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 …
Traditional American luxury automaker Cadillac, best known for soft rides, posh interiors and gray-haired buyers, on Tuesday said it will compete in the grueling 24-hour Le Mans auto race in June 2000. Cadillac officials, who disclosed their plans at the Geneva International Motor Show, said they will use a 4.0 …
The city administration of Bangkok, Thailand revved up its anti-exhaust campaign yesterday by launching 20 motorcycle patrol teams to nab smoke-belching vehicles which may have eluded stationary checkpoints. Each team of one city policeman and one traffic policeman will prowl city streets twice a day. Their initial focus will be …
Experts at a seminar said that the emission of poisonous gases by the motor vehicles was responsible for almost 50 pc of the air pollution in the city endangering public health.
Delhi Transport Corporation and private city buses will be converted to single fuel mode on compressed natural gas by March 31, 2001, the Lok Sabha was told on Monday. The minister of state for environment and forests, Mr Babu Lal Marandi, in a written reply in the Lok Sabha, said …
For the first time in the country, the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board(KSPCB) has introduced a fleet of mobile vans called the Parisara Vahini(environment streams), in Bangalore, as part of a novel concept to educate drivers and vehicle owners about the importance of protecting the city's environs. The green brigade …
Bakht : Industry Minister Sikander Bakht said that the government has no proposal to either ban or regulate the manufacture of diesel cars, even in metropolitan cities. The ministry has no such proposal under its consideration, Mr Bakht told the Rajya Sabha. However to control vehicular pollution, progressive emission norms …
Air pollution in the congested Bangladeshicapital Dhaka is causing 15,000 premature deaths and sickening several million people a year, a World Bank official has said. "We estimate that air pollution in Dhaka causes some 15,000 premature deaths and several million cases of sickness every year," World Bank country director Fred …
Twice a day, the No. 158 commuter bus driven by Jack Scott makes its way between the Vancouver suburbs of Port Coquitlam and New Westminster. It would not be anything remarkable save for the fuel cell in the back - a potentially revolutionary cell that carries the hopes of advocates …
The Government has cancelled two orders placed by the previous Government to TELCO and Ashok Leyland for the supply of 200 buses to the Delhi Transport Corporation(DTC). The orders of 100 buses each of Tata and Ashok Leyland have been cancelled in light of Supreme Court guidelines which laid down …
In an effort to protect the Delhi traffic police personnel from vehicular pollution, a solar power operated pollution-free shelter started functioning on Friday at a major traffic intersection in the heart of the city.
Corning Inc. introduced a new product one early this week that it says will enable automobile manufacturers to reduce emissions by as much as 70 percent over current national standards. The company's new 900/2 catalytic converter substrate is designed to be used at the core of catalytic converters and allow …
Brazil's government has authorised a pilot project for one of its state capitals to use a pollution-busting diesel fuel containingalcohol distilled from sugar cane in its buses, a spokeswoman said. The project would begin later this month in Curitiba, the capital of Brazil's southern state of Parana, and run for …
In a bid to stop environment pollution by black smoke emission, the Bangladesh Government decided to import lead-free petroleum from the first of July. To discourage the import of two-stroke engines as part of the drives against air pollution, the government also decided to impose high duties on such imports …
The old generation vehicles are being phased out rapidly from Delhi's roads and the taxis that once supplemented the public transport system for a part of Delhiites are also on their way out. In their place elegant black and yellow Maruti Omni vans have made their debut as taxis on …
Air pollution kills 15,000 people annually in Dhaka, according to a World Bank study. The Bank's environmental economist, Carter Brandon, identified two-stroke three-wheeler autorickshaws, known in Bangladesh as baby-taxis, as the major culprits in polluting the air.
Four major allies of the BJP-led coalition, including the AIADMK, on Saturday announced they would exert pressure on the government to roll back the hike in price of high speed diesel (HSD).
if the recent Supreme Court (sc ) judgements are anything to go by, the judiciary in India is increasingly playing the role of the policymaker. Take the case of air pollution in Delhi. First sc ordered closure or relocation of polluting industrial units operating in the capital in July 1996. …
An Icelandic consortium, Vistorka hf. signed a Cooperation Agreement with Daimler Chrysler Norsk Hydro and the Royal/Shell Group setting up a joint venture to investigate the potential for eventually replacing the use of fossil fuels in Iceland with hydrogen and creating the world's first "hydrogen economy". The joint venture, called …
Proposals to curb urban air pollution were condemned by public transport operators in Hong Kong yesterday. The Environmental Protection Department's proposals include raising fines for smoky vehicles from $450 to $1,000 and making some busy streets in Causeway Bay and Mongkok pedestrian-only at certain times. Urban taxi and public light …
