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 …
Transport in Indian cities headed the wrong way: ministry After a gap of 14 years, the Union Ministry of Urban Development commissioned a study on the state of transport in Indian cities. The data showed Indian cities sinking deeper into a spiral of congestion and air pollution
Automobility enervates, because more cars mean more congestion, less mobility IN NOVEMBER 2004, the journal Nature published a research paper tracing how endurance running was linked to the evolution of our species. Two scientists had analyzed hominid fossils, and found endurance running unique to humans among primates as well as …
THE news that the traffic department of Dhaka Metropolitan Police is returning the previously seized unfit buses to their owners, because of lack of space in its dumping yard, is a bit disconcerting. The whole exercise was aimed at clearing the city roads of the old, faulty vehicles that cause …
NEW DELHI: The BJP would pay immediate attention to the issue of providing an efficient transport system in the Capital if voted to power in the upcoming Delhi Assembly elections, the party
Pune, October 16 After developing the road from Airport to Balewadi, the Pune Municipal Corporation is all set to introduce Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) on the route.
Mumbai, October 15 The highest body of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) on Wednesday cleared the proposal for a nine km monorail connecting Bandra-Kurla complex and Bandra railway station. This project will address the growing demands of a better transportation service in the business district. The monorail route …
Bangalore, DHNS: Congress MLA for Sarvagnanagar, K J George, has urged Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa not to alter the design of the six stations of Metro Rail coming up in various parts of the City. In a letter, he said the design for the six stations were finalised after …
Chief Urban Planner of CMDA S.Santhanam (second from left), releasing a book on application of geomatics in urban transportation planning and management at St.Peter
The total cost of the project is estimated to be Rs1,125 crore for the four-km long route Even as the fate of the first-ever monorail project in the country hangs in mid air, the Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority (MMRDA) has come up with a second proposal to construct a …
By S Praveen Dhaneshkar, DH News Service, Bangalore: Despite Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa emphatically stating that Namma Metro is on track and would be completed by December 2010, the construction activity on Reach One (M Chinnaswamy cricket stadium/Anil Kumle circle to Byappanahalli) appears to have slowed down... And who …
Public transport systems in cities in India are largely bus-based and operated by public agencies. The performance of these organisations on the financial front has been rather wanting. Several reasons
According to recent statistics, U.S. motorists have responded to record-high prices at the pump by driving less. Any hope that this cutback will significantly restrain global oil prices is misplaced, however: fundamental factors of supply and demand in the world economy will keep oil costly for years to come. The …
The parking issues of Bangalore are intricately related to the city structure, infrastructure, traffic and management. The one way system proposed for speedy movement within the city and streamlining the traffic had facilitated clear carriageways with removal of parking from the roads. These have resulted in moving the
