Cyclone Aila has forced the Calcutta Municipal Corporation (CMC) to draw up new safety norms for billboards, which include a ban on sheet metal hoardings.

Over 1,000 billboards were destroyed by the wind and found hanging precariously from buildings and gantries across the city.

The sheet metal roofs of several bus shelters were also blown off.

Supreme Court orders worry Mumbai residents Mobile hoarding vans that advertise brands, bollywood films, saas-bahu serials among other products will remain on Mumbai roads, said a September 4 Supreme Court order. The same day, the court ordered redevelopment of dilapidated buildings built before 1940. These orders overruled Bombay High Court

Faced with growing congestion in the city, a doctor in Mumbai filed a petition in the high court. The petition was against mobile hoarding vans parked along the roads. The court upheld the petition and banned the vans citing reasons of safety and traffic congestion. The high court also cracked its whip on the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, which it claimed had failed to check the growth

Glow signs using diesel gensets at bus stops have increased in Delhi. So has the pollution

The Supreme Court has ordered the removal of "all hoarding by roadsides' in the capital which it said were hazardous and a disturbance to traffic. In its earlier court order, the court had directed

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