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Topic: Trucks

City Streets, Big Dreams: 5 Ways Compact Trucks Are Conquering Urban Roads

Ever noticed how swiftly your local shop restocks or how fresh groceries land at your doorstep in the heart of the city? Behind the...

Heavy vehicles make up 2% of country’s vehicles but are responsible for 70% of pollution—CSTEP study

Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy report finds ‘super emitters’, or ageing vehicles, will undermine efforts to reduce pollution unless scrappage is made mandatory.

With trucks sitting idle, India’s fuel demand set to hit 5-year low in 2020-21

Overall oil-product consumption including transport fuels in the financial year through March 2021 will be around 90% of last year — the lowest level since 2016.

Logistics giant VRL to scrap 15% of its fleet, not buy new trucks in lost year of pandemic

VRL operates about 5,000 vehicles, including tankers, cranes and buses, and has identified some 700 low capacity trucks for possible scrappage.

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Life in Delhi isn’t easy for Northeast Indians. Racism is always round the corner

Racism is a problem for privileged mainlanders only when it's meted out to them abroad. In their own backyard, it's normalised as 'I was just kidding. Chill yaar'.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

IAF’s Tejas fleet undergoes ‘maintenance check’, decision on airframe yet to be taken

The 7 February incident involving Tejas aircraft caused severe damage to its frame. IAF and HAL are working together as part of the Board of Inquiry (BoI) to probe the incident.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.