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 …
New Delhi: The city experienced shallow fog for the third consecutive day on Wednesday as still air and high moisture levels arising from Cyclone Nilam resulted in low visibility conditions almost through the day. Between 11am and 4pm, the average visibility was 600m at Palam and 500m at Safdarjung. The …
Note on dieselization of cars and action plan: a brief summary of Supreme Court directives on toxicity of diesel and growing scientific evidence on health impacts of this fuel.
This study by Sarath Guttikunda and Puja Jawahar focuses on the energy and emissions outlook for the transport sector in India which could effectively result in a co-benefits framework for better air quality management in the cities & national climate policy dialogue. This study focuses on the energy and emissions …
Geetam Tiwari, Professor of Transport Planning in the Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Delhi, on Monday, called upon decision makers to consider the impact of transport hazards on health. She also recommended that programmes be designed to help implement sustainable public transport across the country. Speaking at the fourth edition …
Hyderabad: The growing vehicular population and the resultant pollution levels in Hyderabad, the fifth largest metropolitan city in the country, are playing havoc with the health of the traffic police. A whopping 32 per cent of the traffic police personnel in the city were found to be suffering from lung-related …
Weekend family picnics to Kanheri caves in your car are soon going to become a thing of the past as the forest department plans to ban all private vehicles inside the National Park by the end of December. They will instead bring in special battery operated or CNG buses for …
New Delhi: The problem of polluting commercial vehicles breaking down on Delhi roads will finally be addressed now. The transport department, which at present operates only one centre in Burari for pollution check of commercial vehicles, will soon get centre another at Najafgarh. The centre, which will be run by …
The civic administration will now conduct a feasibility study of all multi-level parking proposals to ensure that there is no burden on the existing infrastructure in the vicinity. “When parking lots are built in congested areas, they can turn detrimental for the nearby areas in terms of vehicular congestion, pollution, …
Air pollution in Jaipur has reached a critical level as a result of growing number of vehicles and resultant congestion. The air quality is affected by rising levels of particulate and nitrogen oxide contamination. Moreover, rapidly growing number of vehicles may undo any gains the Pink City might have made. …
JAIPUR: The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) citizen's survey findings have offered the authorities real-time data to take some urgent steps to check rising pollution levels and encourage walking and cycling as feasible options for residents to travel small distances. The report stated that 40% residents prefer to walk …
JAIPUR: With nearly 400 vehicles being added to the city's burgeoning fleet of private cars and commercial vehicles, the level of air population has sharply gone up along with a corresponding rise in the number of people suffering from respiratory problems. In an alarming report prepared by the Centre for …
Jharkhand High Court on Monday once again directed the government to free Ranchi’s roads of smoke-belching auto-rickshaws, plying within city limits without permits. The Bench of Chief Justice Prakash Tatia and Justice Jaya Roy was hearing a PIL by one Rajneesh Mishra on increasing pollution in the capital, caused primarily …
MARGAO: In a bid to control air pollution in the port town of Vasco and Margao, the district authorities have outlined a 16-point program to check increasing air pollution in the two towns, with a suggestion to make pollution check compulsory for all vehicles entering the State. The program was …
Electric vehicles (EVs) coupled with low-carbon electricity sources offer the potential for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and exposure to tailpipe emissions from personal transportation. In considering these benefits, it is important to address concerns of problem-shifting. In addition, while many studies have focused on the use phase in comparing transportation …
INDORE: Pollution in the city can be controlled only by curbing the increase in private vehicles and developing public transport system, which should be main mode of transport for denizens, said environmentalist Sunita Narain here on Monday. She was speaking on 'Urbanisation: Challenges and Way Forward' at a programme to …
India is fast catching up with global emission regulation trends, which will translate into world class products with the implementation of Euro V and Automatic transmission standards by 2015. With fiscal policies regarding goods and services tax (GST) in India likely to be implemented soon, it would pave the way …
The transport department has not allowed conversion of vehicles to LPG, a sure way of cleaning up the city air, for the past six months. “Over the past few months, we have repeatedly sought the transport department’s permission to retrofit LPG kits to vehicles but have not received any response. …
Environmentalists want a cap imposed on the number of visitors to the Taj Mahal, the epitome of Mughal heritage, citing concerns on the growing industrial and vehicular pollution threatening the equilibrium of the monument. Currently, 25,000-42,000 people visit the monument every day. “Agra should have a clean air action plan. …
Microscopic particles, among the most harmful forms of air pollution, are still found at dangerous levels in Europe, although law has cut some toxins from exhaust fumes and chimneys, a European Environmental Agency (EEA) report said on Monday. On average, air pollution is cutting human lives by roughly eight months …
Britain needs a more ambitious programme to encourage the uptake of low-carbon vehicles, as sales of the cars have disappointed, a committee made up of UK Members of Parliament said on Thursday. As part of its aim to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050, …