Articles by: Ashish Bhatia

Heavy vehicles under scanner at Kochi

Heavy vehicles without registration were pulled by Kochi’s Motor Vehicles Department (MVD). Several instances of vehicles being used at construction sites without registration were found. If this prompted the Kochi MVD to ramp up its checking, the officials drew attention to the law that binds the owner to register the vehicle within three months of purchase. With registration cost pegged[Read More…]

by July 4, 2016 News
Diesel cabs go off Delhi roads

Diesel cabs go off Delhi roads

With the Supreme Court allowing diesel taxi drivers in Delhi, with an ‘All India Permit’, valid upto five  years, to ply on the roads, diesel taxi drivers finally breathed a  sigh of relief. It was only days earlier that over 27,000 diesel  taxis including those of cab aggregators like Ola and Uber  vanished from Delhi’s roads. It was a Supreme[Read More…]

by July 4, 2016 News

Green highways?

Given the stress on upgrading fuel emission to near zero levels, work is all set to begin under the Green Highways policy announced in 2015, or it seems. At a consultation session held in April, organised by the Energy and Resource Institute of India, it was Nitin Gadkari, Union Road Transport and Highways Minister, who claimed that work on Green[Read More…]

by July 4, 2016 News
World’s first electric road operational in Sweden

World’s first electric road operational in Sweden

by June 24, 2016 News, World