In a bid to make city roads free from congestion and safer, the North Delhi Municipal Corporation will be constructing parking lots for commercial vehicles.

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued notices to the Delhi Chief Secretary and the State Transport Commissioner on a contempt of court petition by a non-government organisation alleging that that they had violated the Court orders allowing plying of other vehicles in the BRT corridor till disposal of a petition for opening up the dedicated bus carriageway for three-wheeler and four-wheeler traffic as well.

The petitioner, non-government organisation Nyaya Bhoomi, submitted that despite the Court orders of May 30 and July 5 that the trial-run of vehicles other than buses would continue in the corridor till disposal of the petition, the Government had disallowed those vehicles from entering into it.

Demand for diesel vehicles pushed up sales of the country’s leading auto makers in July amid concerns that the sagging economic growth and high fuel prices and interest rates will continue to pose challenges to auto sales in Asia’s third largest economy.

Nine of the industry’s 19 leading automobile manufacturers together grew volumes by 11.8 per cent to 182,822 units in July, compared to 163,572 units sold in the year-ago period. Sales in the passenger vehicle industry grew 9.7 per cent in June this year.

NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court sought replies from the city government on Wednesday on a plea seeking contempt action against it for not allowing cars to use a road lane reserved for buses on the

24x7 operational control room helps in tackling public grievances

Implementing a global positioning system (GPS) based municipal solid waste transportation has led to saving of more than 48 per cent running cost and increased efficiency by 88 per cent for the Mysore City Corporation (MCC). The statistics on effect of GPS was revealed by Kallatra Technologies director Nishad Ali and project manager B S Vishwanath at the ongoing third international conference on solid waste management ‘ICONSWM-2012’ at the N R Narayana Murthy Centre of Excellence here on Tuesday.

‘Dump Diesel, Petrol To Curb Pollution’ Ahmedabad: In an order which would impact lakhs of people owning cars, the Gujarat high court on Wednesday directed the state government to pass laws to make

AHMEDABAD: In an order which would impact lakhs of people owning cars, the Gujarat high court on Wednesday directed the state government to pass necessary laws to make it compulsory for all four-wheelers registered in Gujarat to convert to natural gas within one year.

Further, the court gave two months to the state government to issue necessary orders to impose stringent restrictions to reduce pollution by fixing levels of emission to the minimum, at par with international norms. The order applies to both public and private vehicles running on petrol and diesel.

With the monsoon continuing to play truant, water sources inside the Mudumalai and Anamalai Tiger Reserves may dry up

With the frequent appearance of elephants in some parts of the Nilgiris like Pandalur near Gudalur and Nonsuch below Coonoor becoming a cause for worry due to water shortage in the jungles stated to be among the contributory factors, speculation over the situation in the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (MTR) near here has, of late, become rife in various parts of the Nilgiris.

The State Forest Department has stopped all tourism activities in the core areas of tiger reserves in the State with effect from Thursday in line with the country-wide ban by the Supreme Court.

Visitors now in the tiger reserves will have to return without a safari, as the State Government recently declared the entire tiger reserves in the State core areas. “There will be no tourism activities within Bandipur, Nagarhole, Anshi Dandeli, BRT Wildlife Sanctuary and Bhadra Tiger Reserve,” Dipak Sarmah, Principal chief Conservator of Forests (PCCF) and Chief Wildlife Warden, told Deccan Herald.