New Delhi: Faced with crippling slowdown and rising vehicle pollution, apex auto industry body Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (Siam) has suggested to government that all private cars ma

Anil Ambani-owned Reliance Power on Monday said it would earn Rs.2,000 crore by trading carbon credits from its Tilaiya ultra mega power project (UMPP) in Jharkhand in the first ten years of its op

NEW DELHI, 2 OCT: A network of mass transport systems is imperative to avert urban vehicular traffic as the number of cities with more than 10 lakh people will increase from 48 to 68 in the next tw

Five soleckshaws – a solar-powered vehicle that also allows the rider to pedal – were distributed among rickshaw pullers here on Sunday to mark the launch of the vehicle in the city.
Developed and manufactured by Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute in Durgapur, the zero-carbon-emitting vehicle, uses both the mechanical energy and electrical energy achieving a maximum speed of 18 kilometres per hour.

“It will take 18 months to construct the waste disposal plant”

The Puducherry Municipal Services Private Limited, which is entrusted with the task of garbage management in the town and suburban areas from January this year, has expressed optimism that the solid waste management rules will be implemented fully in the coming days.

Precipitation has dropped owing to human-influenced aerosols: study

Human activity that spews out fine particles into the atmosphere could be taking a toll on the Indian monsoon, leading to a decline in recent decades, say researchers in a paper being published online by the journal Science .

If all the 5.75 lakh cars registered in the city were to be parked on-street parallel to one another, the area that the vehicles occupy would be as much as seven per cent of Chennai. As existing regulations on parking are inadequate and the enforcement is lax, most of the vehicles in the city eat into precious space on the road.