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NEW DELHI: An increased number of checks and strengthened maintenance system are required for the Tata Motors Ltd. (TML) supplied low-floor Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) buses, TML commercial vehicle business unit president Ravi Pisharody said here on Thursday.

Worried over the incidents of fire on low floor buses, Environment Pollution Control Authority chairman Bhure Lal has suggested both DTC and Tata Motors carry out a double checking system in these buses.

The conductor noticed smoke coming out of the rear of the vehicle and asked the driver to stop the bus

How about low-emission vehicles and more active travel like walking and cycling? (Editorial)

Mumbai To meet global standards, the Union Environment Ministry, in a move that went largely unnoticed, had reduced permissible air pollution limits last month though the earlier norms were not being met.

Now state officials say they are facing a

Non-Availability Of Fuel Can Upset April Plan

New Delhi: Will the new emission norms miss the April 2010 deadline? Automobile industry body Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (Siam) is upset over the non-assurance by oil companies on supply of requisite-quality fuel and has requested the government to look at delaying the deadline for the new emission norms.

Air pollution levels in the erstwhile Manchester of the East, Kanpur is on the rise, says an analysis of recent air quality data by New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment.

Full text of the CSE Press Release available at
http://www.cseindia.org/AboutUs/press_releases/press-20091217.htm

Air pollution levels in the erstwhile Manchester of the East, Kanpur is on the rise, says an analysis of recent air quality data by New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment.

Full text of the CSE Press Release available at
http://www.cseindia.org/AboutUs/press_releases/press-20091217.htm

Call for including disaster management in curriculum

HEMANT ABHISHEK

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