Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
Third incident in last seven days; Tata Motors fined Megha Suri Singh & Dwaipayan Ghosh | TNN New Delhi: For the third time this week, a DTC low-floor bus caught fire. No one was hurt, but questions are being asked about the safety of the new CNG fleet, delivery of …
Govt blames negligence, warns supplier Tata Motors which is also responsible for maintenance Another low-floor bus caught fire on Thursday morning in Moti Nagar area of West Delhi. The 15 passengers, the driver and the conductor escaped unhurt. The bus, plying on route 832 from Janakpuri to Inderlok metro station, …
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 …
New Delhi: After the recent case of fire in a Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) bus running on a school route, the government has drawn up an elaborate plan to make the entire fleet leakage proof. All buses which have undergone checks will now sport stickers on the front windscreen for …
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 …
After having experimented with dedicated bus lanes in the central verge and the left on the first Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Corridor between Ambedkar Nagar to Delhi Gate, the Delhi Government has now come up with another idea to successfully run the BRT Corridor. It has now proposed to bring …
While the citizens of the Capital do not have enough potable water, the transport department of the Delhi government has decided to install water-softener plants to wash low-floor buses with an expenditure of lakhs of rupees. Delhi minister of transport Arvinder Singh said the water-softener plants would be installed in …
New Delhi: By next year, Delhi can expect to have its own hop-on-hop-off heritage tourist bus service modelled on the lines of the London counterpart. Delhi government has proposed to introduce specially designed double-decker buses, which will be run on tailor-made routes taking tourists not just to monuments but also …
New Delhi: Soon, Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) will run chartered buses on dedicated routes connecting business districts and bus terminals with residential pockets in the capital. Delhi government has reportedly asked the corporation to carry out a detailed commuter survey to finalize the routes. The new fleet is being envisaged …
Already facing the brunt of inflation, the common man travelling on public transport in the Capital was not spared on Monday by the Delhi Government. A segment untouched so far by the Government much to the relief of the people, the honeymoon is now over. By the passing of a …
The Expenditure Finance Committee (EFC) cleared six Commonwealth games projects on Monday at meeting presided over by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit. A total of Rs 109 crore was sanctioned for the projects. Dikshit said Rs 50 crore was sanctioned for park-and-ride and holding facility at the Safdarjung Airport and Rs …
83 To Ply On Three Routes In BRT Corridor TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: Finally, some good news regarding lowfloor buses. On Sunday, 107 low-floor buses
New Delhi: Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) seems to be on a fast track to modernisation. While nearly 200 buses are to be added to the existing fleet by March next year, the entire fleet is going to be fitted with global positioning system (GPS). A pre-bid meeting was called on …
The government's plan to phase out Blueline buses in the capital is likely to take more time than expected. While its "cluster" scheme, in which private players were to be invited to run buses on particular cluster of routes, seems to have encountered a financial problem, the arrival of the …
May Allow Half The Fleet In Cluster To Be Semi Low-Floor With the corporatization of the Blueline fleet yet to take off, the government may decide to allow private operators to have semi-low floor buses as half of the fleet instead of the low-floor buses to bring down costs. In …
The corporate buses will start plying from September and will have GPS and smart card fare system The Delhi transport department has decided to install global positioning (GPS) and smart card fare systems in corporate buses that would run on city roads from September. Commissioner and secretary of Delhi transport …
July 1: The Delhi government on Wednesday said it has informed the Centre about its intention to purchase 625 low-floor buses under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). The buses were part of a total fleet of 1,500 sanctioned for Delhi under the JNNURM. Replying to the special …
TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: A temporary bus depot being planned on the Yamuna riverbed close to the Commonwealth Games Village has met with stiff resistance from certain environment groups. Citing the L-G
The Delhi government has given the go-ahead for the construction of a Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) bus parking next to the Commonwealth Games Village for 300 buses on the ecologically sensitive and moratorium-bound Yamuna flood plain. While Lieutenant-Governor Tejendra Khanna had earlier ordered a moratorium on any construction activity on …
