Order of the High Court of Rajasthan in the matter of Deepak Acharya Vs Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited dated 05/03/2025. The Rajasthan High Court has admitted a petition challenging installation of a Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) petrol pump near a crematorium and high-tension line. The NOCs to establish the …
In order to ensure that polluting vehicles are off Delhi roads, the Delhi Government has decided to stop sale of diesel and petrol to vehicles which do not possess Pollution Under Control (PUC) certificates. The decision to this effect comes as per the recommendation of the city government’s high-powered committee …
Vehicles which do not possess Pollution Under Control (PUC) certificates will not be provided diesel and petrol in the national capital from October 1. The decision to this effect was taken up by the city government’s high-powered committee, constituted by lieutenant-governor Najeeb Jung, on Wednesday. The committee, set up to …
India will soon be able to convert its plastic wastes into high-grade petrol and diesel, thanks to a breakthrough by researchers at the Dehradun-based Indian Institute of Petroleum (IIP). The IIP, a constituent lab of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, has for the first time in the country …
Bharat Stage IV (BS IV) fuel would be available in the rural areas of Pune, and Thane from April 1, 2016. The fuel is available in Pune and Mumbai, besides Ahmednagar and Solapur in Maharashtra, and a few others in the country. The ministry of petroleum and natural gas has …
Pricing mechanism of major petroleum products in central public sector oil marketing companies. This report has been laid on the table of the Parliament house on 18/07/2014.
This report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India contains the results of the performance audit of pricing mechanism of major petroleum products in central public sector oil marketing companies. The audit covered the period from 2007-08 to 2011-12.
At least a hundred cars queued up at the fuel depots in the capital after word spread that the five percent green tax on petrol and diesel comes into effect from today. Adding the taxes, petrol in Thimphu has become about Nu 73.17 a litre and diesel Nu 60.47 a …
Delhi is among the 13 cities in India that follows the Bharat Stage (BS) IV emission norms, while smaller cities implement BS III norms. The early morning air in Delhi is nothing short of poisonous. Apart from the two spikes in air pollution during rush hour traffic, Delhi’s third spike …
The Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources has sought Tk 14,200 crore budgetary allocations as subsidy for the coming fiscal 2014-15 to purchase petroleum fuels for costly rental power plants, officials concerned said. The subsidy sought for the fiscal 2014-15 is Tk 2,600 crore higher than the allocated amount …
Motorists in the Kathmandu valley are not only facing a petrol shortage for the second time in a month, but are also hit by adulterated petroleum products. Questions are being raised about the quality of fuel supplied by the NOC after a number of petrol pumps complained that their machines …
BANGALORE: Ashima R (name changed), a resident of Shantinagar in Central Bangalore, is fed up of polluted air she and her family have to endure through the day. All because her house is a few metres from the Shantinagar bus station which sees 3,400 bus trips every day. The scene …
The exercise set to begin in June will be conducted in phases The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB), the Bangalore Traffic Police and the National Referral Centre for Lead Poisoning in India (NRCLPI) will conduct a study across the City to determine the level of lead in the blood …
Taking serious cognizance of leakage from storage plants of Indian Oil and Bharat Petroliam at Akolner village, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has ordered the Ahemadnagar district collector to form a fact-finding committee consisting of a regional officer of the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) and any authorized senior officer …
The EEA has collected EU Member States' data on passenger car registrations, in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 443/2009. All Member States reported information on Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and the mass of cars, together with other vehicle characteristics. This data was used to evaluate the performance in 2013 of …
The government plans to impose an additional 30% environment compensation charge on diesel vehicles and is considering tightening the emission norms by mandating fuels compliant with Euro-IV norms by next year and Euro-V norms by 2016 while it is targeting Euro-VI norms by 2021. Supply of higher quality petrol and …
Market has halved over two years as consumers opt for cheaper, fuel-driven cars India’s move to popularise electric vehicles has skidded on policy flip-flop and consumer propensity to opt for the cheaper fossil fuel-driven variants. The size of the domestic market for electric vehicles, primarily two-wheelers, has more than halved …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter of New Link Road Residents Forum & Anr. Vs. The Union of India & Ors dated 18/03/2014 regarding number of auto-rickshaw licences issued during last five years in the Metro city of Mumbai and the use of …
The Government of Bangladesh has committed to ensuring access to affordable and reliable electricity for all citizens by 2021. At present, however, only about half of the population has access to electricity, while supply is hardly reliable for those with access. To improve the situation, the government has adopted a …
Coal, coke and petroleum products which are transported from Goa have now come under the ambit of green cess, after the state government notified the Goa Cess on Products and Substances Causing Pollution (Green Cess) Act, 2013 (Goa Act 15 of 2013). The state government is expected to collect around …
In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of Section 52 read with section 110 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (No. 59 of 1988), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Central Motor Vehicle Rules, 1989. These rules may be called the Central …
