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 …
Capital's roads are crumbling due to heat and rain. But PWD has no immediate solutions as repairs in patches are clearly not helping. In the past few months, Delhi's roads have literally crumbled before our eyes. Large potholes have appeared at various points and undulated stretches have become the norm. …
The government will prohibit sale of all the commercial vehicles sold in India with below Bharat Stage IV (BSIV) in major metro cities The Government of India has taken an initiative to make the country cleaner and safer by equipping mandatory ABS (Anti-lock Braking System) and Speed limiters on all …
Delhi High Court Wednesday expressed serious concern over high levels of particulate matters in the air affecting the health of the people in the national capital and directed the city government to take steps to check unregulated building activities and plant trees. A bench of justices Badar Durrez Ahmed and …
INDORE: Despite all the hype around ibus and BRTS corridor, only two per cent commuters in Indore are using public transport system, a survey report revealed on Tuesday. Number of people using ibus is even less as even this two per cent public transport users are distributed among ibus, auto …
Muscat: The Ministry of Environment and Climate Affairs has informed that importing vehicles that have passed their expiry period or are about to is a sensitive issue for the environmental sector since such vehicles harm the environment. Hence, efforts should be made to limit their impact on the environment. In …
Imagine asking your phone to calculate the optimal route for cycling to work while enjoying the best air quality, or calculating whether it's better to just take the train or bus to reduce pollution. Similar requests might soon be possible. On Tuesday, Google and Aclima, a San Francisco-based startup that …
KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) – The Government is taking action to improve fuel economy and efficiency in the transportation sector and reduce vehicle emissions, which contribute to global warming. Minister of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change Robert Pickersgill made the declaration as he addressed the Regional Global Fuel Efficiency Workshop …
Until real-time monitoring begins, Transport department officials have roped in 2,000 civil defence volunteers to create awareness. While the Delhi government is determined to crackdown on pollution, the real-time monitoring of vehicles without Pollution Under Control (PUC) certificates is expected to take off after a delay of a month as …
In a novel initiative to de-congest the traffic and reduce pollution in one of the busiest urban corridors in the country, the Hyderabad software industry association and the traffic police have joined hands to declare one day in a week as “car-free” day. Every Thursday would be a car-free day …
Cities across Europe will ban cars from their roads for one day in September, as part of a campaign to promote more sustainable transport. While major capital cities across the continent have been bringing in a raft of measures to try and tackle pollution — as recent studies have also …
China saw levels of two common air pollutants improve modestly in the first half of 2015, environmental group Greenpeace East Asia said on Wednesday. Average levels of PM2.5 - particulate matter with a diameter of 2.5 micrometers that can penetrate deep into the lungs - fell 16 percent in the …
The automotive industry needs to face up to the hazard to health posed by its diesel engines. That stark reality was brought home again to Europeans and, in particular, Londoners last week when Transport for London and the Greater London Authority revealed that an additional 5,900 early deaths annually in …
Cities across Europe will ban cars from their roads for one day in September, as part of a campaign to promote more sustainable transport. While major capital cities across the continent have been bringing in a raft of measures to try and tackle pollution – as recent studies have also …
Buses that neither belch pollution nor draw on coal power are starting to appear on city streets with the support of Silicon Valley and a company backed by Warren Buffett. Over the next six months, Seattle is rolling out two all-electric buses made by Kleiner Perkins-backed Proterra Inc. The city …
A parliamentary panel has flagged a number of environment-related issues which, it found, have been causing damage to Mumbai and Visakhapatnam and asked the Union environment ministry and respective state governments to take up urgent steps for improving infrastructure and strengthening pollution mitigation measures in these two coastal cities. The …
The Delhi govt had told the Tribunal that it had checked the trucks for age, weight, and extent of pollution caused and had found that only eight trucks did not conform to permissible pollution standards. Out of 112 trucks entering Delhi, 97 were found to be overloaded but only eight …
The National Green Tribunal was both baffled and angry on Wednesday when told that Delhi government officials who inspected heavy vehicles entering Delhi on Monday and Tuesday nights at three border points could only find eight polluting vehicles. "You found 97 vehicles to be overloaded but only eight polluting? How …
Another hearing went by in the National Green Tribunal (NGT) with authorities arguing against any clampdown on vehicles to counter air pollution in the city. A petition against alarmingly poor quality in Delhi was to be heard for a final time on July 13, 14 and 15 but the matter …
A parliamentary panel has voiced concern over industrial pollution in the Taj Trapezium Zone Authority area "adversely" affecting the Taj Mahal and said that it was "aghast" at the lack of administrative set up and budgetary allocation in the Zone. The Taj Trapezium Zone Authority (TTZ) was set up to …
SHIMLA: Around five years before National Green Tribunal (NGT) stepped in to save the fragile ecology of Rohtang Pass from heavy influx of tourists and their vehicles, Himachal Pradesh government had in 2010 tried to regulate tourism activity at mountain pass but decision taken in the two meetings held at …
