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Both firms to pass on benefit of excise cut in Interim Budget to consumer

Auto makers Tata Motors and General Motors India today announced they will cut prices of their products after Finance Minister P Chidambaram decided to reduce excise on automobiles in the interim Budget 2014-15.

Auto major Tata Motors and Canada's Westport Innovations today launched a spark-ignited natural gas engine meant for use in medium commercial vehicles.

The new engine features the Westport WP580 Engine Management System (EMS) and is designed to support various configurations.

Additional traffic signal, two unused roads to be used for traffic diversion at Chirag Dilli

Even as the fate of the Ambedkar Nagar-Moolchand BRT corridor hangs in balance, the operators of the corridor, Delhi Integrated Multi-Modal Transit Systems (DIMTS) have submitted a bunch of proposals to the Delhi Transport Department to decongest the corridor.

Electric vehicles are not a mitigation option unless electricity is cleaned up and these together with smart grids & renewables can provide a solution for this says P R Shukla in this paper presented at the Development and Mitigation forum held at Cape Town from 27-29 January 2014. Read full text.

It is not just cars and bikes that auto enthusiasts will witness at the Auto Expo to be held next month. The twelfth edition of the expo is planned to be of much bigger scale, in terms of the size of the venue as well as launches.

The event will see launches of over 70 vehicles - the highest ever - 15 of them being global launches. In addition, there will be sidelights in line with the global trend.

70% of diesel and 99.6% petrol is consumed in the transport sector alone finds this all India study on sectoral demand of diesel & petrol conducted by M/s Nielsen (India) Pvt Ltd for Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC), Petroleum Ministry.

Excessive Use Of Private Vehicles Creating Havoc In City, Says IISc Mobility Survey

Lucknow: Lucknow urgently needs a robust public transport system to tackle the increasing urban roadways congestion, noise, air pollution, and traffic accidents, says a mobility survey conducted across five Indian cities.

State Road Transport Undertakings (SRTUs) in India provide for the mobility of people by offering passenger services. The performance review of these SRTUs is generally made by assessing their physical and financial parameters.

This new study by IIT, Bombay examines the existing road‘s safety performance and suggest various suitable traffic control and management measures to enhance safety and mobility of proposed 15.5 km BRTS corridor in Pune.

This latest edition of the annual statistical year book published by the Central Statistics Office provides data sets on the various facets of the economy of the country and the vital social aspects like housing, health, environment, infrastructure, tourism, and agriculture too.

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