With citizens and government bodies looking to promote bicycles, a city-based engineer has claimed to have invented a solar-motor pedi-cab, (a tricycle of sorts) that could potentially replace the traditional auto rickshaw.

Chunabhatti-based PK Pillai has now sent the designs to IIT-Bombay for comments are looking for funding to promote the model commercially.

The solar powered version of th

London: Doctors have for long said that cycling is good for health.

In October last year, Ranjan Kaplish and Padma Tegu found themselves stuck in the middle of a truly massive traffic jam in South Delhi. And right there, in the midst of complete chaos, an idea was born.

New Delhi: The humble bicycle, the affordable personal mode of transport for the poor, will be hit by the pinching inflation as higher input costs have prompted cycle manufacturers to increase prices, which will affect the low-income group of the society.

NEW DELHI: Cycling enthusiasts, environmentalists, students and people from different walks of life participated in the

A pan-India mix of journalists, activists and transportation experts criticised the overtly skewed, car-centric policy of the government and demanded a rightful place for non-motorised transport (NMT).

The professionals were speaking at a national media workshop on NMT held on Friday at the Yashwantrao Chavan Academy for Development Administration (Yashada) organised by Delhi-based NGO, CMS Env

KOLKATA, 18 OCT: The state health department has decided to provide bicycles under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) to Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) to reach remote areas in the blocks.

A team of officials from NRHM recently visited various block primary health care centres and primary health care centres and found that the Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA), who are