Unlikely little Amsterdam

  Right off the drawing board Photographer Aparna Pallavi Nanded is trying out a pedestrian haven along European lines

The right right

The world's cheapest car, the Nano, rolls out in India this week. Manufacturer Tata Motors says it will change the way Indians drive, for the inauguration places the personal car within the reach of people who once could only dream of owning one. Indeed, the Nano has been marketed as an 'aspiration'--the right of every Indian to a car. No quibble here. There is no question an affordable car is better than an expensive one; or that a small car, being more fuel efficient, is better than a big one.

Bumps on road fuel cars

Shock absorbers help vehicles recharge from speedbreakers NEXT time your car hits a bump on the road do not curse. Rather, use these shockers to increase the fuel efficiency of your vehicle by 10 per cent. A new shock absorber developed by a team of researchers can generate electricity to fuel your vehicle when it hits a bump.

Thane plans a cycle track

An 82-km cycle track to connect residential areas of the Mumbai suburb, 52 km in the kitty Pravin Pandurang Mandavkar, 24, serves vada-pav in the Thane Municipal Corporation canteen. Everyday, he commutes from his house in Kharegaon, seven kilometres away, on his bicycle.

More bus rides

Label your cars

Car makers told displaying fuel efficiency now mandatory

Road kill

Accounts for 22 per cent of accidental deaths in children Around 950,000 minors worldwide die every year due to injury and violence About 87.4 per cent of these are categorized unintentional (accidental) injuries

Come without your car

A festival helped a small town in Punjab discover car-free mobility Fazilka is a small, 162 year-old town on the India-Pakistan border in Ferozepur district. Its unkempt, garbage-strewn congested streets with small, bustling shops are nothing out of the ordinary. But this town of about 68,000 people--and about 45,000 vehicles on its narrow lanes--has removed one source of congestion cars.

Dear all, kindly divorce your car

With due respect to god, although not omniscient, we the car-driving and personal vehicle-driven are omnipotent.

Port end

Silt has left the Hooghly shallow. Haldia port faces closure Silt deposits at the mouth of the Hooghly river have rendered Haldia port nearly unnavigable, raising fears that India's second largest container port might soon be shut down. The formation of sandbars, largely due to inadequate dredging, has raised the riverbed, making the shipping