New Delhi: The price of CNG in the capital will go up by Rs 2 per kg from Oct 1, dealing another blow to consumers after the hike in petrol prices.

Tampered meters in auto rickshaws and taxis and rickety, unsafe and smoke-emitting trucks, buses and private vehicles will soon cease to exist.

An Autoricshaw ride in Delhi comes at a great cost, and not just for your pocket.

Irked over non-filing of a response with regard to the steps taken for the launch of eco cabs, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Friday directed the director of Haryana urban bodies department t

In a move that could put a spanner in the Government

While the number of auto rickshaws is increasing in the city, the State Transport Authority appears to be busy in maintaining its figures, pertaining to checking pollution caused by the autorickshaws, mainly the ones that run on diesel. The STA challaned 666 autorickshaws, in 2010, for violating pollution norms.

BEHRAMPORE, 16 JUNE: The adage that necessity is the mother of invention is apt for Kajisha, a gram panchayat at Beldanga in Murshidabad.

The gram panchayat, with a cluster of villagers, has turned out to be a rare bit of rural Bengal by setting a precedence: to rope in a band of rickshaw-van pullers for supplying pure drinking water on demand to households determined to drink arsenic-free wate

While Haryana and the Chandigarh Administration are still taking baby steps where the eco-cab project is concerned, Punjab is going strong.

Ropar will start the eco-cab service on the lines of existing ones in Fazilka, Amritsar and Patiala. The Punjab Tourism Development Board will launch the eco-cabs at Ropar in collaboration with the Rotary Club, Ropar.

Under this collaboration, the club will identify beneficiaries and will provide a sponsorship of Rs 500 needed for seeking loan from the government.

Importers of battery-run electric rickshaws now mull a legal battle challenging a government ban recently slapped on these vehicles across the country.

The government in an inter-ministerial meeting on May 5 banned import and assembly of the vehicles and decided to send off-road those already plying, primarily on the ground that it consumes electricity mostly through illegal connections.