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 …
Group Lotus, the Malaysian sports car and engineering group, is forming a joint venture with the Orbital Engine Company of Australia to develop engines that use an advanced form of fuel injection designed to meet the stringent emissions legislation expected next century.
Chief executives of European car companies are under intense pressure to agree this week to a voluntary cut in carbon dioxide emissions, after indications that failure will lead to the imposition of binding targets.
A Washington-based think tank , has alerted India against serious environmental risks arising out of the indiscriminate growth of the automobile industry and private sector -funded infrastructure boom in the country. The World Watch Institute, in its new research paper, released here on Saturday, says nine of the world's major …
a few days before the United Front (uf) common programme was to be released, the Union minister for environment and forests, Saifuddin Soz, in an interview told Down to Earth that the uf has a separate section on the environment. However, the common programme and the joint policy declaration of …
the Delhi government has shelved plans to implement a phase-out of 15-year-old commercial vehicles. Delhi transport minister Rajinder Gupta took a u -turn on the policy decision and withdrew the ban on February 4, with the excuse that the government "would take an objective decision later (after the elections)". Though …
The manner in which the Congress- i has used the forthcoming elections to curry favour with autorickshaw owners by organising them to oppose the bjp -led Delhi government's proposal to stop all commercial vehicles which are 15 years old or more from April 1, 1998 shows that India's politicians will …
Electric buses powered by highly efficient energy conversion devices called "fuel cells" are a feasible solution to tackle toxic emissions from petrol and diesel vehicles, according to a Tata Energy Research Institute factsheet. The average Indian automobile user being price sensitive, the introduction of higher efficiency engines and better fuel …
The Rashtriya Swamsevak Sangh top brass may have the final word on banning of 15-year-old commercial vehicles and phasing out of Blueline buses with sharp divisions appearing in the Bharatiya Janata Party over both the controversial decisions of the Delhi government.
The city's traffic police periodically builds up a hype over anti-pollution steps being under-taken by the department and at the end of every exercise takes credit for challaning thousands of vehicle owners who were supposedly polluting the Capital's air with their two, three or four-wheeler monsters. The anti-pollution drives of …
study : Two and three wheelers are the greatest air polluters in the city, followed by diesel trucks and city buses. This was revealed in a study carried out in the city recently by the Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry's Petroleum Conservation Research Association (PCRA) in collaboration with Pollution …
Study: Vehicular pollution is expected to go up to 85 per cent in 2010. This was pointed out by a survey on vehicular pollution conducted by a non-governmental organisation, Vatavaran. Vatavaran's director Iqbal Malik said the pollution level will rise from 72 per cent in the year 2000 to 85 …
It's been a year since the Delhi government promised 50 authorickshaws runing on environment-friendly propane on the Capital's roads. It's been just about two weeks since Delhi transport minister Rajendra Gupta said his government will allow commercial vehicles older than 15 years to run on city roads beyond March 31, …
Europe's oil industry warned yesterday it could face billions of dollars of extra costs after the European Parliament voted overwhelmingly for toughening targets on air quality.
With the Delhi Government repeatedly taking back its ban on old vehicles, pollution control has taken a backseat. The Government has an enviable record of retracting its own words, policies and proposals at the slightest protest. Respiratory problems, cough and asthma have become an inseparable part of the Delhities' life …
An Indo-Dutch demonstration project to study the feasibility of introducing autogas on a large-scale in the city was launched on Wednesday. The project, undertaken under the directives of the Supreme Court, envisages to convert 50 two-stroke engine autorikshaws to the environment-friendly fuel.Four auto gas stations are also being set up …
A filling station to dispense propane, a clean automotive fuel, will start functioning in about six weeks. Set up under a pilot project being implemented by SHV Energy India Ltd, a fully-owned subsidiary of SHV Energy of Netherlands,it will be the first such facility to introduce propane, an eco-friendly fuel.
The ministry of environment and forests has proposed to introduce a parallel public transport network, running on compressed natural gas (CNG), in Delhi. THis is to lower the use of petrol and diesel vehicles, which presently dominate the capital's transport scene.
The European Parliament will decide today whether to push for tougher European Union targets for reducing car emissions- a step which could increase costs to the oil and motor industries by billions of dollors. In a second reading of the "auto-oil" programme, calling for action by car-makers and oil-refiners to …
The European parliament will vote tomorrow on far-reaching anti-pollution measures which threaten the oil and vehicle industries with tens of billions of dollars in extra costs. The legislation is viewed in Brussels as a test of the power of the green lobby and it has led to a battle of …
European car manufacturers will be warned by the British government today to act more quickly to cut carbon dioxide emissions or risk statutory penalties. Gavin Strang, transport minister, will tell the industry that the UK regards the issue as important for its presidency of the European Union and that time …
