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 …
A decade has gone since the first line of metro started in Delhi in 2002. Despite its expansion across the city in the past 10 years neither pollution nor congestion levels have gone down as claimed by its advocates. An analysis of the revenue generated by the Delhi Metro Rail …
Canada, heavily criticized for its environmental record, unveiled long-delayed regulations on Friday that aim to make big trucks and buses up to 23 percent less polluting by 2018. The greenhouse-gas emissions rules - designed to fit with measures already set in the United States - will come into effect starting …
Air pollution parameters have soared up in the Kathmandu Valley on an unprecedented scale in recent times. Dry climate and unplanned urbanisation is adding fuel to the fire. We have severe air pollution in terms of particulate matters (PMs). This is largely because of unmanaged traffic and dusty roads in …
Jammu: The state has around nine lakh registered vehicles and just 94 pollution checking centres. To add to the problem, a number of these centres are non-functional due to poor monitoring by the transport department and lack of a “proper system” to track down vehicles with high emission levels. Out …
The government is likely to levy a ‘green surcharge’ of Rs 2 on petrol, a ‘green cess’ of 4 per cent on a vehicle’s insured value and a urban transport tax of up to 20 per cent on all vehicles across the country to finance the mass urban transport needs …
If BRT corridor was meant to be a panacea for the never ending traffic woes and ever increasing automobile pollution of the national Capital, it failed in its objective. The idling time at the Chirag Dilli intersection on BRT corridor is double the time vehicles spend idling at ITO, perceived …
Night pollution a major contributor. KOLKATA, 5 APRIL: There is a piece of bad news for those Kolkatans who are non-smokers and turn over in their sleep assured in the knowledge that they will never end up like the hero of a novel who shoots himself after finding he is …
A quick glance at the city’s pollution data of the last few months would leave any green activist happy. The real story is, however, starkly different — the figures are misleading since 17 of the 20 pollution measuring units have not been working since January. Calcutta High Court on Thursday …
Do you know how a number of auto-rickshaws, motorcycles, scooters and cars emitting too much smoke are issued pollution under control(PUC) certificates? Those who man such centres are okay giving these certificates as long as you pay them the money. According to a reply received in response to an RTI …
Solan: The Chail panchayat has imposed green tax on vehicles entering this town from other states since April 1. Since this was for the first time that such a tax was imposed in Chail, the panchayat has kept nominal fee of Rs 10, Rs 20, Rs 30 and Rs 100, …
The city administration is yet to equip Motor Vehicle Examiner (MVE) with modern technology and technical staff to conduct testing and certification of vehicles due to which most vehicles, especially public transport plying on different routes of Islamabad, are environment hazards as well as cause of accelerated wear and tear …
In an effort to encourage the use of bicycles that would make the summer capital of the state pollution-free, the authorities organised a cycle race today that attracted people from all walks of life. The race was organised by the Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) at the Zabarwa Park here in …
The present study deals with the effect of urbanization and automobile emission on ambient air quality of Bhubaneswar city, Odisha. This paper examines the significant difference in seasonal variations of air pollutant concentrations in the city.
In the present study a monitoring work is under taken to estimate the black carbon aerosol of 4 different cities representing 4 different zones of Odisha state. The monitoring was carried out from December 2008 to November 2009 to study the role of aerosol contamination in different atmospheric condition.
Twenty nine percent of diesel vehicles and 23 percent of petrol vehicles in government institutions have failed the vehicle emission test, a spokesperson for the Environment Ministry told the Daily News yesterday. She observed that under the direction of Environment Minister Anura Priyadarshana Yapa, a special programme has been implemented …
The Supreme Court on Monday expressed serious reservation over the Delhi chief secretary’s failure to honour its August 2011 order, asking him to detail the action taken following a CBI report about the illegal trading of three-wheeler autorickshaw permits in the capital. A bench of Justices D K Jain and …
The ambient air quality is being monitored in 216 cities, towns and industrial areas all over the country including Delhi under the National Ambient Air Monitoring Programme (NAMP). The parameters which are monitored are Sulphur Dioxides (SO2), Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) and Particulate Matter (PM10). The details on ambient air quality …
Colombo: Delhi’s transport system will now be replicated by other major cities. Sri Lankan minister for petroluem and oil Sushil Premajayantha said that they were using Delhi as a model to replicate the CNG-transport system in Colombo and hoped to start work on the same in coming months. The minister …
NewDelhi:The government decided against levying a cess on diesel vehicles fearing that the move will adversely impact employment and investment, especially after companies have sunk in thousands of crores in the country, a senior finance ministry official said. “It was a policy decision taken at the highest level,” said the …
