Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
in 1933, Adolf Hitler met with the car baron Ferdinand Porsche to discuss the idea of a car that could carry 5 people, cruise up to 40 km an hour, return around 12 km a litre, and cost only 1,000 Reich Marks. Thus was the origin of the Volkswagen car. …
Bigger cars buck improving trend The Pune based Automotive Research Association of India has shared random data cluster on fuel economy with the New Delhi based Centre for Science and Environment. These highlight changing trends in fuel economy levels of Indian cars and two-wheelers through the successive stages of emissions …
Or not Europe shows how complex the diesel predicament can get if fuel economy regulations and local pollution abatement strategies are not equally stringent. The car industry in Europe agreed to meet a stringent voluntary CO2 reduction target for the vehicle fleet (140 gm/km on a fleet wide basis) by …
with the Indian economy growing at a breathtaking pace, the urban Indian consumer has never had it so good. There are more cars, more ipods, more mobile phones than what anybody could have imagined 15 years ago. Fuelled by rising advertising revenues, the media is focused only on phenomenal growth …
DaimlerChrysler and its subsidiary, Mercedes Benz (usa) have agreed to pay us $1.2 million to settle civil charges with the Environmental Protection Agency (epa) for failing to disclose defects in air pollution controls of more than 100,000 Mercedes vehicles manufactured between 1998 to 2006. "These defect-reporting requirements are a critical …
The Hindu of December 13, 2006 published a write-up on Singur on its op-ed page: "Some facts, please' by cpi(m) politburo member and leading intellectual Brinda Karat. She was countering what she called a smear campaign against the cpim) over the acquisition of land for the proposed Tata Motors project …
From the mid-1970s and on, the contribution to air pollution of carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides from gasoline passenger cars in the developed world has been reduced through co-evolution of regulation and commercial introduction of catalytic emission control technology, now part of hundreds of millions of cars, trucks and …
German automaker BMW has announced the launching of its prototype Hydrogen 7, the world's first luxury car powered by liquid hydrogen. The vehicles will be manufactured in a European country. A limited number will be in the market in 2007. Equipped with a combustion engine capable of running either on …
With Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on a hunger strike, (as events stood on December 8, 2006), things are bound not to be normal. Banerjee's hunger strike comes as a mark of protest against Tata's proposed car plant in Singur, West Bengal. This time round, the chief minister of West …
mamata is on fast. Medha is arrested. Marxists are on a march to the market. Over some motorcars. It is very difficult to stick to any ideology while you are in the quicksand of market. For some time now in Indian politics, the Left managed to give the impression to …
California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed into law, a ground-breaking global-warming initiative that slaps the us 's first-ever cap on greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions. This is in sharp contrast to George Bush's inaction on climate change, particularly his refusal to sign the Kyoto Protocol. California will have to reduce ghg …
the furore over Tata's proposed Rs 1,000 crore small car plant in Singur, Hooghly may be creating rifts among longtime Left partners, it's also helping bring old foes together. But the fear of being labelled anti-industry has the new allies still hedging their bets. The latest installment of this drama …
function table() { var popurl="image/20060831/8-table.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=320,height=550,scrollbars=yes") } ever since the West Bengal government cleared, in May 2006, Tata Motor's proposal of setting up a 426 hectares (ha) small car plant in Singur in Hooghly district, farmers' protests have been relentless. Their protests forced the government to redraw its land acquisition …
three decades ago, the Left Front government in West Bengal started its rule by distributing land to the landless through its famous land reform programme. Now, the political grouping is preparing to grab 17,200 hectares (ha) of mostly agricultural land for industry
after dithering on the issue for nearly two years, the Delhi government has finally decided that only those light commercial vehicles (lcvs) which run on clear fuel will be allowed for registration in Delhi. The decision that will come into effect from July 1, 2006, however, excludes vehicles on national …
driving on a hot, summer day, makes one wish the air conditioner was more efficient. And the sight of a vehicle stranded because of an overheated radiator immediately makes you check the temperature gauge of your car. If heat can be oppressive, science can be liberating. Researchers from the University …
