Shut your shop'

DTC invites the wrath of the Supreme Court with its lax attitude towards the court order to convert all buses over eight years old to CNG by …

Fatal Attraction

The thirst for diesel in India is growing. Diesel mania grips the Indian automobile industry and the customers with more and more companies going …

Stopmotion: Why diesel vehicles should be regulated in Delhi

Diesel vehicles are allowed to pollute more and their exhaust is directly linked with cancer. This is a good enough reason to regulate the sale …

Diesel cars dearer; cycles cheaper

Delhi allocates a fourth of its budget for improving transport

Reverse effect

Diesel-fuelled vehicles have pulled down the ratings of companies

US comes clean

Diesel becomes a dirty word in the official US environmental lexicon

Count the soot

Black carbon from diesel, not from biomass, warms the globe

Licence to kill

One person dies every hour in Delhi due to ambient air choked with particles. Diesel exhaust is a major source of fine particles that are …

India researchers make petrol from plastic

The Indian Institute of Petroleum has developed a technology that uses a combination of catalysts to produce high-quality diesel and petrol

A close look at particles

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Generating controversy

Environment ministry favours small manufacturers, ignores experts' advice on air emission norms for off-road diesel engines

Himachal sets target to be a clean and green energy state by March 31, 2026

State government has completely banned purchase of petrol and diesel vehicles in government offices

Fuel for thought

Germany calls for "sulphur-free" fuels

Diesel confuses bees

Emissions interfere with floral odours that guide honeybees

The hazy future

A policy that kills!

The government's fuel pricing policy is the very essence of irrationality

A pedestrian view

The new fuels leave vehicle-owners with little choice

What "alternatives" farce

Environmentally unsound

Union budget 2002-03: all the right noises, all the wrong measures

Don't junk it

Waste can power vehicles

Exposure to diesel exhaust induces stress

DTC: OUT OF GAS?

With the deadline for converting its entire bus fleet to compressed natural gas drawing near, the Delhi Transport Corporation looks for excuses …

Descent of man

The troubling aspect is that religious fundamentalism encourages the rejection of modern scientific thinking

Taking India for a ride

Global automakers have topped the charts but with products that would fail the green test in their own countries

Miles to go

Is the government serious about introducing compressed natural gas (CNG) as a standard fuel for Delhi's vehicles? Have adequate steps been taken …