After the pink auto rickshaws called 'Tuk-Tuk', the city administration is now looking for a new avatar of cycle rickshaws.

It has asked a university here to modernise the good old pollution-free vehicle and present it as an attractive option for tourists in the coming months.

Transporters today failed to get a Supreme Court stay on the ban on commercial vehicles over 15 years of age from August 1.

Calcutta should be able to breathe easy. But can it?

Almost the entire public transport system may disappear from Friday if the operators go ahead with the indefinite strike. Metro narrates the consequences and focuses on the issues at stake and the parties involved.

What could be off the street?

The government is making a hush-hush move to give two-stroke autos an escape route.

The writ so far, ruled by court pressure, was to scrap all polluting two-stroke autos and allow only four-stroke single-mode LPG ones to ply on city streets.

Supreme Court on Tuesday assigned federal and provincial environment departments the task of exploring a way out for providing financial assistance to the owners wherever needed for conversion of 'carbon emitting' buses and auto rickshaws into environment friendly vehicles running on Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) as fuel.

The rickshaw has got a new image, it competes with retail

A part of the city

The high court on Monday directed the government to allow conversion of a two-stroke autorickshaw to battery mode. The private firm doing the switchover would send the three-wheeler to the Automotive Research Association of India to ascertain its feasibility, the court added.

A group of IIT graduates in Fazilka are celebrating the success of the eco-cab as a environment-friendly public transport service
A group of IIT graduates in the remote south-western Punjab city of Fazilka are celebrating the success of the eco-cab