The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, (MoRTH) on March 15, 2024, notified the Central Motor Vehicles (Registration and Functions of Vehicle Scrapping Facility) Amendment Rules, 2024 to further amend the Motor Vehicles (Registration and Functions of Vehicle Scrapping Facility) Rules, 2021. The following has been stated: In rule 5,- …
In India, traffic accidents are not on the health agenda. It's high time the agenda was changed. When Gopinath Munde, the Union minister for rural development, met with a tragic accident on the road in Delhi, the issue was highlighted. Even so, there is little understanding of the seriousness of …
The next time you use public transport you can provide feedback through phone. Delhi eGovernance Society (DeGS) has developed an android-based mobile app in an effort to improve the capital's transport system. The Society--which works under the information technology department--plans to share the data with the transport department and Delhi …
CSE releases the assessment of road accidents and accident hotspots; presents findings of its safety audit; puts forth an action plan Deadly tally: About 16 deaths and 58 road injures per hour in India; share of fatal accidents in the total is up from 18 per cent in 2003 to …
Ford is now in the process of setting a new long-term water reduction target having achieved its 2015 goal to cut global water use per vehicle by 30% two years ahead of schedule. According to the company's 2013-14 Sustainability Report, Ford reduced the average amount of water used to make …
Audi has drawn up blueprints for a range of high-performance electric cars to take on US firm Tesla Motors, according to sources at the German carmaker. Consumers have largely shunned battery-powered vehicles because of their high price tags and limited driving range as well as the scarcity of charging stations. …
Gurgaon fell in love with Raahgiri when it was launched there last November. Now, it's Delhi's turn. The Delhi leg of Raahgiri will kick off on the evening of July 5 near Khan Market. Raahgiri is a unique concept to free up a section of the city's roads from traffic …
PUNE: An audit report for the nine km Swargate-Hadapsar bus rapid transit system (BRTS) stretch has recommended that the PMPML take responsibility for preventing the entry of non-BRTS vehicles in the dedicated corridor. The audit, which was done by a private agency appointed by the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), has …
Action against persons parking their vehicles on road side A meeting of the Road Safety Committee convened by District Collector M.S. Jaya on Monday reviewed the new traffic regulations implemented in the city. The meeting decided to remove the median at the Patturaikkal Junction to make the traffic smooth. One-way …
The Haryana Police Sangathan and Constables and Head Constables’ Association have alleged large-scale irregularities in the functioning of the state police department during a central executive meeting here today. The organisation maintained that illegal mining was being carried out in Yamunanagar, Karnal, Panchkula, Panipat, Sonepat, Mewat, Faridabad, Narnaul, Rewari, Gurgaon …
The State Traffic Planning Cell of the Tamil Nadu Police is planning to identify most accident-prone stretches in the State and bring in foreign collaboration to reduce the number of accidents. The ambitious initiative will take off with the arrival of an Australian delegation for its first field visit in …
KOLHAPUR: The increasing use of vehicles has led to consistent rise in air pollution levels, affecting the environment and health of the city. For the last six months, the suspended particulate matter (SPM) and the respirable suspended particulate matter (RSPM) levels have been much higher than the acceptable standards. According …
Besides this, the website also contains presentations, posters and youth resource guides dedicated to climate change. Mumbai-specific carbon footprint calculator, a first-of-its-kind, was launched by Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority’s Mumbai Metropolitan Region- Environment Improvement Society (MMR-EIS) on the eve of World Environment Day, celebrated world-wide on June 5. The …
AHMEDABAD: Union minister and BJP leader Gopinath Munde's death in a road accident in New Delhi on Tuesday morning has brought the issue of vehicular accidents and subsequent fatalities to focus in the city. In Ahmedabad, death due to road accidents is a major concern and the latest data shows …
Need to actualise goals of UN Decade of Action for Road Safety The numbers say it all. Every four minutes a life is lost in a road accident in India with 1,40,000 deaths recorded in 2012 alone. In the past decade, over a million people have lost their lives in …
The purpose of this briefing document is to expand upon the overall EU fleet CO2 data recently published by the European Environment Agency (EEA). EEA’s report showed that fleet-wide vehicle CO2/km emissions have decreased from 162 g CO2/km in 2005 to 127 in 2013, already exceeding the 2015 target value …
PUNE: The enforcement of six road-safety measures, including helmet and seat belt compulsion, will be part of the report that the Maharashtra government will submit before the Supreme Court-appointed committee in the next three months. The traffic branch of the Pune police has decided to step up the awareness drive …
To encourage public transport in the city, BRTS should be more user-friendly with facilities like toilets and drinking water at bus stops of ibus and BRTS should be synchronized with other modes of public transport to provide end to end transportation service, said urban transport experts on Sunday. Urban transport …
Unhappy with the failure of the state government to streamline plying of e-rickshaws, Delhi high court on Wednesday demanded an explanation from the chief secretary . HC slammed the government for failing to rein in “illegal“ e-rickshaws and for “passing the buck“ on the issue. A bench of justices Pradeep …
Fuel can be used for cooking, in vehicles Clean Kerala Company Limited (CKCL), an organisation formed under the State Local Self Government Department, is planning to engage the services of agencies for production of natural gas from municipal solid waste. The gas is to be bottled as compressed natural gas …
The Center for Alternative Fuels, Engines and Emissions (CAFEE) at West Virginia University (WVU) was contracted by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) to conduct in-use testing of three light-duty diesel vehicles, using a portable emissions measurement system (PEMS), over a variety of pre-defined test routes exhibiting diverse driving …
