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Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding dumping of waste in a canal in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 29/05/2025

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton Canal nearly choked due to garbage dumping appearing in the DT Next dated 11.05.2025". The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton …

City BRTS nominated for international award

Ahmedabad: The BRTS of Ahmedabad has been nominated for the 2010 Sustainable Transport Award to be conferred on January 12 in Washington DC. Ahmedabad will compete with BRTS systems in Cali city of Columbia, Curitiba city of Brazil, Guadalajara city in Mexico and Johannesburg in South Africa. The BRTS systems …

Year when city kept waiting for BRTS, new buses

Pune Of all the problems of the city that have consistently defied solutions, Pune traffic must rank right up there. Even as about 600 new vehicles are added on to the city roads everyday, the public transport system

Maintenance needed: Tatas

NEW DELHI: An increased number of checks and strengthened maintenance system are required for the Tata Motors Ltd. (TML) supplied low-floor Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) buses, TML commercial vehicle business unit president Ravi Pisharody said here on Thursday. Addressing a press conference in the wake of an increasing number of …

New Transport Policy endorsed

A cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan here today endorsed state's new Transport Policy. Under the policy, District Transport Authorities will be established on the lines of State Transport Authority and Regional Transport Authority. The committee headed by the district collector will issue permits and determine routes …

Low-floor bus catches fire

The conductor noticed smoke coming out of the rear of the vehicle and asked the driver to stop the bus The passengers of a low-floor Delhi Transport Corporation bus had some scary moments on Saturday evening when their bus caught fire in Delhi cantonment area. The incident, seventh of its …

Cycle tracks, off BRTS routes, too

Pune The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) will soon come out with guidelines on introducing footpaths and cycle tracks on non-Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) routes. FC Road and JM Road will be the first to get the facility. Cycle tracks and clearly demarcated footpaths have already been introduced on the …

City of the future

THE Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) was launched in December 2005 by the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government in keeping with its Common Minimum Programme. It was a form of reform that urban areas in the country desperately needed before they spiralled into haphazard and over-flowing cities. The …

Court seeks Tata Motors affidavits about supply of low-floor buses

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the heavy vehicle manufacturers, Tata Motors and Ashok Leyland, to file affidavits stating when they would be able to complete the supply of low-floor buses to the Delhi Government. A Division Bench of the Court comprising Justice A. P. Shah and Justice S. …

Delhi House rocked over `buses on fire'

Payment of Rs 150 crores on the lot of 90 buses has been withheld along with Rs 4 crores out of the total bill of Rs 10 crores to be paid to the Tatas The Delhi Assembly on Monday was rocked on the issue of six low-floor CNG buses catching …

Smoke in yet another DTC low-floor bus

NEW DELHI: Hot on the heels of two low-floor Delhi Transport Corporation buses developing snags leading to a fire in one of them on Saturday, yet another bus was hit by a mechanical snag at Sagarpur in West Delhi on Sunday. Half a dozen such incidents have been reported this …

Non-polluting vehicles not given due sanctity

Narmada Bachao Andolan activist Medha Patkar lent her support to the cause of providing space to cyclists and other poor people who can ill afford private transport by demanding that the original design of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) be retained in all such corridors coming up in the city. …

Pedalling to greener world

At a time when experts and top negotiators of the country have landed in Copenhagen to explore ways for delaying the catastrophic consequences of climate change and global warming, collective vows to reduce daily carbon footprint for a greener future came from citizens of the Capital. About 150 responsible Delhiites

Reddy bats for public transport, mentions BRT

Even the number of cars plying on the city roads, fuelled by low-budget options, continue to go on an upward curve, the Union Urban Development Minister Jaipal Reddy said he is not

Govt. ticks off Tatas after DTC bus fire

Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar and Ashok Kumar NEW DELHI: Following another fire in a low-floor Delhi Transport Corporation bus in Moti Nagar here on Thursday, the Delhi Government swung into action and hauled up Tata Motors which is responsible for the maintenance of these buses. It also constituted a four-member committee …

BRTS: Delhi erred Abad didnt

Ahmedabad: In a glittering ceremony at Vigyan Bhavan in Delhi the BRTS planning and executing team of Ahmedabad Janmarg Limited (AJL) received the country

Sustainable urban transport in Asia 2009: a year in review

Year 2009 can be considered very significant as climate change concerns in transport became the primary driver of the Sustainable Transport agenda. At the end of the year as deal at Copenhagen became just a "step forward" to hopefuls and a "dismal act" to many environmentalists, if step back and …

Another low-floor CNG bus catches fire in city

This is the third such incident of a CNG-run bus catching fire in the capital in the past one week Yet another lowfloor DTC CNG bus caught fire near Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital on Monday morning. The DTC has taken a serious view of the accident and has asked the …

Smart card-based bus fare collection system introduced

NEW DELHI: Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Tuesday launched a new automatic fare collection system on the Dwarka circular bus service. The initiative is aimed at promoting seamless travel in the Capital that would one day allow use of a common smart card for travel in buses, metro railway and …

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