Air Pollution 
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Wanted: Ban for breath - Finger at govt for foul air
A STAFF REPORTER
Calcutta is ready to give up the rogue auto for the chance to breathe cleaner air, according to a poll commissioned by Metro.
- Date:
- 05/01/2009
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- Telegraph (Kolkata)
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CNG: Durgapur beats Kolkata to it
Statesman News Service
DURGAPUR, Jan. 1: When it’s a matter of debate and doubt in Kolkata, it’s a reality in Durgapur. The state managed to flag off CNG auto services in the industrial city today in eight routes with specified fare charts amidst no resistance or controversy.
- Date:
- 02/01/2009
- Source:
- Statesman (Kolkata)
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Air cleaner, but not so clean
New Delhi: This year, the city celebrated one of the cleanest Diwalis. Pollution data showed that November 2008 was cleaner than December 2007 on many counts: Suspended Particulate Matter (SPM) and Respirable Suspeneded Particulate Matter (RSPM)—the more dangerous of the two as it gets ingested in the trachea and causes asthma—were lower this year than in the winter of 2007.
- Date:
- 02/01/2009
- Source:
- Indian Express (New Delhi)
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Beijing to remove polluting vehicles
Beijing, beset by choking traffic and heavy air pollution, will take more than 350,000 high-polluting vehicles off inner city streets from Thursday, local media reported.
- Date:
- 01/01/2009
- Source:
- Asian Age (New Delhi)
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Fog haunts the Capital again
Dense fog over the Capital played havoc with flight and train schedules for the second day in a row on Tuesday with about 150 flights delayed and over a dozen cancelled. As many as 50 Delhi-bound trains were reportedly running late in what is being dubbed as one of the worst fog spells to have gripped the Capital in the past two years.
- Date:
- 31/12/2008
- Source:
- Hindu (New Delhi)
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Choppers helped keep outages at bay
After months of dilly-dallying, helicopter services were finally used for the first time this winter to clean power transmission lines from any moisture deposit. The upshot is that it has prevented disruption of power supply in the Capital.
- Date:
- 31/12/2008
- Source:
- Times Of India (New Delhi)
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Pollution up in NCR
The level of pollution in Noida and Ghaziabad has increased alarmingly in the recent times, thanks to the increasing number of vehicles and industrial units.
- Date:
- 30/12/2008
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- Tribune (New Delhi)
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Covert no-convert game - Clean fuel switch illegal as transport dept sits on approval
The state government is taking us for a ride. In polluting autorickshaws at that, as no agency in the state is authorised to carry out conversion of in-use vehicles to LPG.
- Date:
- 26/12/2008
- Source:
- Telegraph (Kolkata)
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Deadline fix for deadly autos
Calcutta High Court on Tuesday refused to extend the deadline for old and polluting autorickshaws.
- Date:
- 24/12/2008
- Source:
- Telegraph (Kolkata)
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No takers for auto LPG move
The state government’s decision to phase out petrol and diesel run autorickshaws from the city and its outskirts by 31 December, is “absurd and impossible,” feels auto owners and union leaders.
- Date:
- 24/12/2008
- Source:
- Statesman (Kolkata)
