Charges will be Rs 700 for light duty vehicles and two-axle vehicles and Rs 1,300 for three-axle and above.

The court also ordered toll collectors to put in place radio frequency identification systems at the nine main entry points in the city by November 30.

Charges to be operative for 4 months from November 1 on ‘experimental basis’.

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday directed that the environment compensation charge, worth Rs 700 from 2-axle vehicles and Rs 1300 for 3 axle and above, to be collected by toll operators at ni

A single car-free day in Delhi is a good gesture, but mere tokenism will not work, environmentalists feel.

Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of M. C. Mehta Vs Union of India & Others dated 09/10/2015. The issue relates to steps to be taken to check pollution by commercial traffic travelling from North India towards Jaipur and onwards via Delhi.

The bench, however, took note of the order passed by the NGT, putting additional tax burden on polluting trucks, and wondered if it still needs to adjudicate this issue.

A day after the National Green Tribunal’s (NGT’s) order asking trucks to pay a pollution cess to enter Delhi, the Supreme Court on Thursday took it to the next level asking the Centre and the Delhi

They fight bitterly to outsmart each other in politics but in the Supreme Court on Thursday, the governments led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Centre and by Arvind Kejriwal in Delhi were o

Moved by a compelling picture drawn by three toddlers about children’s everyday struggle to survive Delhi’s poisonous air, the Supreme Court on Thursday stepped in to help them.

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