More to Auto expo than Tata's Nano
The weeklong Auto Expo, which concluded in Delhi on January 17, showed contrasting trends
The weeklong Auto Expo, which concluded in Delhi on January 17, showed contrasting trends
Auto Expo 98 was an exercise in marketing diesel vehicles that have a low running cost and a high environmental cost
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A public relations agency, Burson-Marsteller Roger Pereira, has come out with a newsletter entitled
Energy insecurity is India s latest tryst with her post liberalised destiny. It began in July 2006. Crude oil prices rose to all time peak, at US $79 a barrel. In India, retail prices of petrol and diesel rose, respectively, 59.6 per cent and 78.8 per cen
Global automakers have topped the charts but with products that would fail the green test in their own countries
A European study determined that exposure to traffic related air pollution, in particular diesel exhaust particles, may lead to reduced lung function in children living near major motorways.
The CSE thesis of devil engines is simply deceptive. It is, to say the least, unbelievable that improved, pollution-controlled new technology engines and 0.05 per cent (50 parts per million) sulphur quality diesel are more lethal
Policymakers must put public health above everything else to chart the future. Consumers must demand change so that industry can be forced to fall in line
The memory of last year's oil price hike, and its economic and political fallouts, has faded from memory. As India awaits the 2007-08 Union budget, newspapers are abuzz with reports of more tax cuts
Waste can power vehicles
Price mechanism is the only way to discourage the use of dirty fuels
At a time when USA is banning MTBE , Indian public sector companies, with the blessings of the petroleum ministry babus, are promoting its use
Sinha will make life even more miserable for Indians. Wealth will come about but at the cost of the environment
Strict environmental standards will prevent air pollution and safeguard the auto industry s interests
The charade over the oil price hike has been played out. On the one hand, the government pleads helplessness given the spiralling oil prices globally, on the other hand, the opposition right and
Railway minister Laloo Prasad Yadav and former cricketer Navjot Singh Sidhu are the clowns of Indian politics. But think of the actions of the two in the past fortnight and you will begin seeing the
Delhi needs to critically rethink its move to abandon roof top solar scheme In many countries it is now possible to feed electricity from solar roof top systems into the grid. What that means is you
<p>Kerala's 10,000 Solar Rooftop Programme is already in full swing with almost half (4700) rooftops signed up by mid-January 2013. Any Keralaite with 15 square meters of unshaded rooftop area can