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Cracking the whip on pollution

13 Jan 2016 3:25 AM IST
The crackdown on diesel emissions from cars and trucks has caught the automobile industry on the wrong foot. Soon after the National Green Tribunal...

Desperate for clean air in national capital

12 Jan 2016 3:17 AM IST
The year 2015 came to a close with new energy driving air pollution control measures in Delhi. On December 16, the Supreme Court ordered that no one...

India’s cities: Sitting on a flood bomb

6 Jan 2016 1:27 AM IST
India is urbanising at an alarming rate. According to the Union Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD), 31 per cent of the country was urbanised in...

Raging rains: Why Chennai fell apart

5 Jan 2016 3:11 AM IST
On December 1, houses on the ground floor in Jafferkhanpet, a neighbourhood in southern Chennai, started to inundate because of torrential rains. By...

Odd-even system and bus transport

2 Jan 2016 2:41 AM IST
It is shocking how bus transport that carries double the number of passengers than the Delhi Metro is degenerating.In the course of the odd-even...

Health risks on your early morning walk

19 Dec 2015 2:19 AM IST
Winter mornings in Delhi are hardly the best time of the day. Every night, a large number of trucks pass through the city, spewing dirty diesel into...

India must take the lead at WTO

15 Dec 2015 3:43 AM IST
As we approach the World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial on December 15-18 in Nairobi, India is leading a group of developing countries insisting...

Rain wreaks havoc in Chennai

4 Dec 2015 5:07 AM IST
The high-intensity rainfall in November brought Chennai to a standstill. Between November 11 and 18, the capital of Tamil Nadu received 449.9 mm of...

Rain wreaks havoc in Chennai

3 Dec 2015 5:43 AM IST
The high-intensity rainfall in November brought Chennai to a standstill. Between November 11 and 18, the capital of Tamil Nadu received 449.9 mm of...

Misunderstanding antibiotic resistance

19 Nov 2015 3:36 AM IST
Public knowledge about antibiotic resistance is still weak and this is something we should worry about. A new survey conducted in a number of...

Fireworks make Diwali a dangerous festival

7 Nov 2015 4:03 AM IST
With October begins the season of festivals for almost all of India. Celebrations start with Dussera, followed by Diwali, Christmas, New Year and...

Spanner in clean diesel?

27 Oct 2015 3:37 AM IST
The Volkswagen cheating episode underlines the desperation of the diesel vehicle industry to survive the stricter emissions standards being introduced...
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