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 …
Poisonous exhaust fumes belting out from autos and buses are the biggest culprits in contributing to visible traffic pollution in Delhi, according to a survey organised by Nature's Soule, a non-governmental organisation. Over 64 per cent of autos, and 59 per cent of buses and trucks, were observed emitting thick …
There is an urgent need to replace the current "speed lanes" system that responds to the varied demands of speed, synergy and optimal distribution of trafffic on roads, says a recent survey conducted by the NGO _ Nature's Soul in tandem with the Class XI students of Delhi. The survey …
Continuing to clash with US car makers over meeting new clean-air standards, the US oil industry proposed differing standards for lower sulfur fuels, depending on the region where they are sold. The proposal, announced after a meeting with the US Environmental Protection Agency, calls for one fuel with 150 parts …
Steyer-Daimler-Puch has now drawn up major plans for India ranging from consultancy services to components manufacture. "Most car models in India were originally developed for Japanese, American or European roads. But Indian conditions require special modifications", said Mr. Werner Grabherr of Steyr's programme management/ product engineering divison.
The environment-friendly electric sub-compact has finally arrived in India. Two prototype models of a zero-emission electric car called Reva, to be eventually produced in India, were flagged off on Friday morning at the US embassy in New Delhi by lieutenant-governor Tejendra Khanna and US ambassador Richard F. Celeste.
The nation's largest oil refiners plan to announce that they will voluntary reduce the sulfur content in gasoline, allowing automakers to fuel a new generation of low-polluting cars, sources within the federal government and the petroleum industry.
Six years after Compressed Natural Gas was introduced as an alternative green vehicle fuel in the city, only about 200 private vehicles have switched over to it. As per the Supreme Court's action plan around 800 government vehicles in Delhi have been converted to CNG, besides the 200 private vehicles.
Even as environmentalist lobby has stepped up its compaign for a cleaner Delhi, the autorickshaw and taxi unions in the Capital are confident that the new government at the Centre will not implement a plan to phase out old and polluting vehicles.
Mazda Motor Corp said on Tuesday that it has developed a new catalyst for gasoline engines which do a better job of removing toxic materials from exhaust emissions.
The Delhi Government has put its decision to ban commercial vehicles older than 15 years from the Capital's roads-a move expected to control vehicular pollution-on the back-burner, apparently prompted by an adverse fallout when elections to the Delhi Assembly are barely six months away. The government has decided to extend …
on february 12, Delhi Chief Minister Sahib Singh Verma's phone lines were flooded as citizen's of the city called his office continuously and told him clearly that he could not barter their health for votes. They were responding to a call by the Centre for Science and Environment (cse) to …
Scientists at Benaras Hindu University (BHU), India, have developed a low-cost catalyst for reducing automobile pollution. They claim that it can replace those currently being used in imported catalytic converters. Unlike the existing converters using expensive metals like gold and platinum, their catalyst employs copper chromite. BHU claims that the …
pollution from vehicles in Delhi may increase by nearly 85 per cent by the year 2010, according to a survey conducted by a Delhi-based non-governmental organisation (ngo), Vatavaran. It shows that the pollution level may go up to 85 per cent by the year 2010 as against 72 per cent …
In a bid to protect environment,the Bangladesh government has decided to take legal action against the vehicles whuich will emit black smoke from April this year.
The Union Ministry of Surface Transport is contemplating to make it mandatory for private vehicles including two wheelers to possess fitness certificates after every few years. Fitness certificates is a statutory requirement for commercial vehicles including buses, taxis and auto-rickshaws.
European carmakers have offered voluntary cuts in carbon dioxide emissions from new vehicles in an atttempt to stave off the threat of the European Union imposing stringent mandatory reductions. But the manufacturers commitment to reduce average emissions by 25 per cent from 1995 levels falls considerably short of the cuts …
A Japanese fuel saver manufacturered by Cosmo Material Inc, Japan, is now available in India.The product has been designed to take on the low grade and often adulterated fuel available in the country and still improve mileage, it is claimed.
Ford Motor Co. and Mobil Corp. have formed an alliance to develop fuel and vehicle technologies to increase efficiency and reduce emissions. The move follows a similar partnership between General Motors Corp. and Amoco Corp.
MOBIL Corp and Ford Motor Co have joined forces in the latest venture between an oil major and an auto company to search for a cleaner fuel to reduce pollution. However, both companies stressed that this announcement, which comes 112 years after Carl Benz produced the first vehicle powered by …
Engelhard Environmental Systems Ltd, a 70:30 joint venture between the $3.2 billion Engelhard Corporation and the Chennai-based UCAL Fuel Systems Ltd, has commenced work on India's first multi product catalytic converter manufacturing facility at Maramalai Nagar near Chennai. The facility is scheduled to start production in August 1998.
