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Smog has to be cleared
Issue Date: Nov 30, 2012
Losing after winning is the worst feeling possible. This is how I feel looking out of my window at a thick pall of black smog engulfing my city. It was this time of the year, exactly 15 years ago, when Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) began its right-to-clean-air campaign. The air in Delhi was so foul one could hardly breathe. That was a time when air pollution was an unknown curse.
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Temporary solution, permanent jam
Issue Date: Sep 30, 2012
I write this stuck in traffic. Nothing unusual. But my location makes me realise, once again, how our highway route to progress is going nowhere. The road I am using is newly commissioned and expensive. It is the 28-km Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway, which was built just a few years ago to take care of the explosion of traffic between the two cities.
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Fuel economy standards: a non-starter
Issue Date: Mar 14, 2012
Just when the country was hoping for a final decision on fuel economy standards for passenger cars it has been delayed again. After four years of wrangling the concerned ministries of power and transport are still indecisive as the car industry continues to put pressure for weak standards. The buck has been passed on to the Prime Ministers’ Office for the final go.
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