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• Washington DC-based Energy Action Coalition is teaming with MTV to encourage US university students to demand their schools get more energy from renewable energy sources. Schools will compete

www.devcomm.org/worldbank/public.asp DEVELOPMENTTALK The first World Congress on Communication for Development (WCCD) will take place from October 25-27, 2006, in Rome, Italy. Organised by

With the road sector growing at a pace of 9%, the government is now all set to monetise the traffic growth by introducing for the first time a tolling policy for highways. Road commuters will now pay

The Delhi government may claim that the numerous flyovers it has built are one of its biggest achievements, but a Supreme Court-appointed panel has frowned upon them for overlooking a major detail.

Come October 2007 and travelling in a city bus will not be a time consuming and frustrating affair. To begin with, at least a 12-km stretch will see city buses zipping through, thanks to the

Putting an end to years of uncertainty and putting in place an effective multi-modal public transport system before the upcoming Commonwealth Games-2010 here in the Capital, the Delhi Government is

These boards, to indicate that the ground work was to start on the Metro rail project, will soon be put up even more prominently with work on the project formally beginning on Gandhi Jayanthi in

The International Maritime Organization's (IMO) "Marpol Annex-6" limits on sulfur in ocean-ship bunker fuel and diesel engine emissions have made only a slight difference so far in the task of slashing diesel pollution in and near the world's ports, experts said. Yet technologies that could dramatically reduce diesel emissions from ocean vessels are now making significant progress.

The demand for petroleum products in India has been increasing at a faster rate than the increase in domestic availability, resulting in increased imports. The transport sector is the single largest consumer of petroleum products. Secondly, about 65 % of total air pollution is caused by the emissions of pollutants from the vehicles run on petroleum products. In the wake of this, there is urgent need to introduce alternate fuels as substitutes for diesel and petrol in the transport sector. Biogas, a clean and renewable fuel, has vast potential in India.

the struggle against the callous industrialists who dumped toxic chemical waste on two plots in the Sindh Industrial Trading Estate (site) in Karachi, resulting in the death of a child and serious

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