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 …
The Surpeme Court has refused to extend the deadline for phasing out 15-yr-old commercial vehicles beyond October 2. Rejecting the Delhi government's offer to scrap commercial carriers of more than 12-year vintage provided the deadline was extended to March 31, 1999, the apex court on Thursday reiterated that such vehicles …
Shell, the Anglo-Dutch oil group, and Daimler-Benz of Germany announced that they would cooperate to develop fuel cell technology to cut vehicle pollution.
With the Delhi Government setting up a fresh deadline of August 20 for the Blueline operators to join the kilometre scheme, the STA Bus Nyay Panchayat has once again rejected the proposal.
Vehicular emission has emerged as a prime source of air-pollution in urban as well as some rural areas of Jammu and Kashmir. The emission of hydrocarbon and nitrogen oxides during morning rush hours leads to development of smog.
An ambitious European Union agreement calling for action from carmakers and oil companies to improve air qulity cleared its final hurdle as it was approved by the European Parliament. The vote clears the way for the so-called Auto Oil programme to be adopted into EU law before the end of …
The Delhi government's message that use of unleaded petrol means trouble -free fuel is misleading, warn environmentalists in the capital. They have warmed that the incorrect use of unleaded petrol might also prove to be hazardous.
Pollution test of vehicles has failed to achieve the desired result of improving Nepal's pollution level even after two years of implementation, traffic police officials say. The officials point out that lack of laws and regulations on vehicle emission is making their task more tricky. To add to the injury, …
The Japanese automakers are going green with a venegance. And there are several reasons. In the next century, as millions of new car owners in China, India and elsewhere take to the road, the Japanese predict that gasoline prices will rise worldwide. At the same time, Japan's carmakers expect pollution …
Ozone can affect both healthy people and those suffering from respiratory illnesses such as asthma. Epidemiological studies done in the US and Europe have shown worsening of asthma symptoms, a spurt in use of medicine for treatment of respiratory problems and increase in hospital admissions due to asthma attacks during …
A group of scientists from the University of Panjab, Pakistan, led by S R A Shamsi, studied the impact of ambient ozone on soybean crop at three sites near Lahore
If Delhi Transport Minister Rajendra Gupta has his way, nearly 600 noxious fume-spewing Harley Davidsons will soon be off the road. While the idea is to combat vehicular pollution, the minister plans to replace them with 15-seater buses. Incidentally, these also run on diesel. The ambitious project will be formally …
TVS-Suzuki has decided to convert its entire range of two wheelers into four stroke. It will flag-off this conversion with the launch of its four stroke scooter, code named Neon, on October 1 in New Delhi.
Nearly 50,000 commercial vehicles that are older than 15 years need not be phased out on October 2, if the new technology offered to the Government by a private firm (G&T; Yugo Tech, with partners in Canada and Netherlands) is adopted.
The transport system in Kathmandu consists of a few thousand old and dilipidated buses and minibuses, hundreds of odd three wheelers those that emit more smoke than any petroleum vehicles. Private cars and taxis, although increasing in number, do not spew much smoke but there is no room for complacency.
The Bangladesh capital, Dhaka, with more than eight million residents, has one of the highest lead pollution in the world, said a study. The study by the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC) blamed the hig pollution level on the large number of vehicles using petrol particularly the two stroke baby …
Commercial vehicle owners have called a strike tomorrow against the ban on vehicles older than 15 years. The ban is applicable from 2 October and the strike call is for the owners of such vehicles.
Platinum pollution from catalytic converters in cars has already built up to astonishingly high levels in UK cities, the British Association meeting heard in Cardiff. It will soon become commercial to extract platinum and related precious metals - palldium and rhodium - from road dust, according to Hazel Pritchard, a …
The Federation of Transport Unions of Delhi yesterday filed a petition seeking modification of the Supreme Court order scrapping all commercial vehicles in the capital older than 15 years from October 2. It points out that more than ten lakh workers will be rendered unemployed by the order. The federation …
A Patna based oncologist, Dr. Kameshwarnath Mallik, has developed an agro-based biomass liquid concentrated titled Feacksol that can increase mileage and efficiency of automobile engines and other motor vehicles by 30 to 50 per cent. The product is recommended by the Petroleum Conversion Research Association (PCRA).
