Judgment of the National Green Tribunal, May 27, 2025 in the matter of Sumit Saini Vs Shree Ram Steel Industries & Others. Sumit Saini, resident of village Damla, District Yamuna Nagar, Haryana had sent a letter petition dated May 14, 2022 to the NGT. The application said that around 25 …
The uk's review of technologies and fuels for reducing carbon emissions by vehicles is complete. Chairperson of the review Julia King, while discussing the study in Mumbai recently, claimed that complete de-carbonization of road transport through hydrogen- and electric-powered vehicles was a realistic goal for the uk for 2050. By …
Luxury bus services in Santiniketan-Kolkata route, ~ a sight that had only been a dream earlier for the locals and Santiniketan-bound tourists, is now a reality. Thanks to Sriniketan Santiniketan Development Authority and the South Bengal State Transport Corporation for their initiatives, jumbo-size Starbuses now will carry passengers from Santiniketan …
In the near future, motorists in Ahmedabad will have to spend less time at traffic signals and have a smooth flow of traffic at busy traffic junctions. Caution for the traffic rule violators
It's official now. You can expect to take a monorail through the congested lanes of the Walled City or hop onto a tram running at road level to catch an event at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium during the C o m m o n we a l t h Games. The …
In an unexpected finale to their keenness to have a bigger say on 2010 Commonwealth Games-related projects, all four members of the Delhi Urban Arts Commission (DUAC) team, led by chief Charles Correa, put in their papers on Wednesday. This was ostensibly done as a mark of protest against the …
There is some respite at last. Disturbed by the growing popular anger over the manner in which the Bus Rapid Transit corridor has been conceived and is being implemented, CM Sheila Dikshit is learned to have ordered the six other BRT corridors be put on hold until the first phase …
Last fortnight, when the world's richest Indian Lakshmi Mittal visited Kolkata, the city of his youth, he was thrilled to see change. Mittal told the media that the biggest difference he saw was the many flyovers dotting the city skyline and "disciplined traffic". This is great progress, he told journalists, …
New Delhi: A new river bridge coming up on the Yamuna, connecting Geeta Colony with Shanti Van, is likely to be thrown open for traffic by April. For east Delhi residents, the commissioning of the project will provide an alternative route to the heart of the city
In this paper an attempt is made to study the profile of the bus operations in India with special emphasis on State Transport Undertakings. There is a need to review the regulatory aspects to promote the public transport sector. The paper mainly focuses on passenger demand, intelligent transport systems, accident …
This paper measures the relative performance of twenty depots of Haryana State Road Transport (HSRT) for the year 2006-07 using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). This study identifies the relatively efficient and inefficient depots, sets benchmarks for the relative inefficient depots and suggests alternative actions that would make inefficient depots improve …
For the first time, Taiwan closed a busy motorway section to make way for butterflies. The effort was to create a safe passageway for swarms of milkweed butterflies that flit along its city roads during their annual migration. With white dots on purple-brown wings, these butterflies are indigenous to Taiwan. …
The Swedish government has approved a discount to motorists who switch to environment-friendly cars. The rebate of 10,000 kroner (us $1,430), which began from April 1, 2007, will continue till December 2009. The Swedish road administration will monitor rebate payments. "We want to encourage more people to buy fuel-efficient cars …
the uk has prepared a draft bill, to be tabled in parliament, which will make carbon emissions mandatory. The domestic targets have been pegged at 26-32 per cent by 2020 and 60 per cent by 2050, over 1990 levels, with a provision for independent audits every five years. The importance …
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands are still seen as tourist havens, even after being ravaged by the tsunami in December 2004. The tourism policy of Andaman and Nicobar Island 2003 listed its objectives as large-scale, resource-intensive tourism, opening more islands for tourism, attracting private investment for high-end eco-tourist resorts and …
The objective of the Partnership for Sustainable Urban Transport in Asia (PSUTA) is to work with stakeholders in Asian cities to identify indicators of sustainable transport for use in policy making. It is a response to the extraordinary
Kfont class="UCASE">stockholm has replicated London's example by imposing a congestion tax on all vehicles entering some areas in the heart of the Swedish capital. The measure is proving successful in reducing traffic with the number of vehicles entering the city centre dropping by about a sixth. The tax charged for …
For Khyali Datt Dourbi of village Laldhang near Ramnagar in Nainital district, Kotdwar seems to have become twice as far as it used to be. The journey was 90 kilometres (km) long till 2001 when he could take the Kandi road through the Corbett Tiger Reserve (ctr); now it has …
