Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Gaurav Sharma Vs Govt. of NCT of Delhi & Others dated 03/07/2023. The National Green Tribunal (NGT), July 3, 2023 said that all government hospitals in India should have an environment management plan to tackle all sources of pollution in …
Gangtok, July 28: Want to buy a car? Get a garage first. This is what the Sikkim transport department has told residents of the state where, as almost everywhere in India, cars parked along roads choke traffic. The department issued a notification this month making it mandatory for buyers to …
Deeply concerned over the problem of increasing traffic congestion in the city, Justice Hemant Gupta of the Punjab and Haryana High Court asked the UT Administration to explain whether
Overwhelmed by success of the BRT corridor in the Capital, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Thursday said the Government would go ahead with the project.
Hoping to ease the crunch for parking space in the Capital and end the menace of private parking attendants, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi has devised a new parking policy, which could usher in a four-fold hike in parking charges. The 140-page draft plan takes into account the city
For improving traffic flow forecasting precision, a forecasting method that combines nonlinear regression Support Vector Machines (SVM) with Principal Component Analysis (PCA) was proposed. PCA was used to extract features from forecasting variables and produce fewer principal components.
One hundred and forty days before Delhi hosts the Commonwealth Games, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, on May 15, called a meeting to discuss ways to control air pollution in the city. Officials from various state departments and activists were invited to the meet. Air pollution in the city is increasing …
Traffic congestion has assumed huge proportions in the City, in the aftermath of it becoming a district headquarters. There are four main roads in the City - Sir M V Road, TPO Road, B B Road and M G Road. Vehicular movement on all the four has become a challenge …
Minister Jaipal Reddy leads the thought process Union Urban Development Minister Jaipal Reddy has taken an important step in developing public opinion on urban transport along the right lines by supporting the idea of a congestion tax in cities afflicted by severe traffic woes. Making it clear that he is …
One hundred and forty days before Delhi hosts the Commonwealth Games, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, on May 15, called a meeting to discuss ways to control air pollution in the city. Officials from various state departments and activists were invited to the meet. Air pollution in the city is increasing …
Acute exposure to ambient air pollution has been associated with cardiac outcomes, often within hours of exposure. The incidence of effects within the population depends on a number of factors, including genetic differences. Baja et al. examined the associations of air pollutants with heart-rate
Studies in humans and animals suggest that both short-term and long-term exposure to elevated traffic levels can adversely affect pulmonary and cardiovascular function. Although several studies have examined associations between blood pressure and air pollution, few have examined pulse pressure or measures of systemic inflammation. Rioux et al. studied residential …
IBM surveyed 8,192 motorists in 20 cities on six continents, the majority of whom say that traffic has gotten worse in the past three years. The congestion in many of today's developing cities is a relatively recent phenomenon, having paralleled the rapid economic growth of those cities during the past …
With easy availability of technology, it seems the day is not far when traffic in the entire city can be easily managed from one particular place, said Ms Kasturi Bhattacharjee, head (telecom) of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) today. She was speaking at a Press conference on
Pune To decongest roads leading to the Pune Railway Station, the city traffic police is planning to approach the Central Railways to allow certain trains to stop at some of the suburban stations on the Mumbai route and similarly on other routes. They came up with the proposal after conducting …
Siri fort complex : Project gets green signal after PWD cuts number of trees to be felled from 54 to 15 Thirty-nine trees in South Delhi have been spared the axe after the Public Works Department (PWD) downsized its plans to widen the
