Small Cars - Big Dilemmas
The farmers of Singur in West Bengal are desperate to save their land from transforming into an assembly line for cars of Tata Motors priced at one lakh rupees (US$2222). While the state’s left front...
View ArticleFuel Economy: No Action Roadmap
Here is what it takes to make an absurd number game -- cunning rules, crafty calculations and clueless regulators.read more
View ArticleHush-hush public notice on emissions norms
We discovered this by sheer chance, buried in the website of the Union Ministry of Shipping Road Transport and Highways. This is a public notice soliciting public opinion on the unfinished agenda of...
View ArticleHealth, climate and vehicles
The recently-released annual global energy trend tracker, World Energy Outlook (WEO), 2007 of the International Energy Agency, has sounded the alert on India crossing the tipping point of per capita...
View ArticleWinter and Diesel cars
Even without looking at the air pollution figures we know from the darkened sky-line that Delhi's air quality gains will be lost this winter. Air has begun to get heavy with dust, smoke and...
View ArticleTransit conundrum
We never expected public transport to catch the political imagination in the car maniacal city of Delhi. So we were pleasantly surprised by the recent budget of the Delhi government. The transport...
View ArticleRequiem for the state bus
Kill. The ultimate scalpel operation as the final sign of life ebbs away. Let it die, rather than drag a colossal waste. We were probably expecting this to happen. Not just to this state-owned bus...
View ArticleNational Wetlands Policy Nepal 2003
The primary goal of the National Wetlands Policy is to conserve and manage wetlands resources wisely and in a sustainable way with local people’s participation. The policy also aims to put the...
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