SCRAPYARD

Nearly 35 cars were gutted in the fire in Noida’s closed factory on June 02. CFO Pardeep Kumar said, “This was a scrapyard which was lying abandoned for years. We received information about the fire at 3 pm. We immediately sent 6 cars. Since there w...

Dharavi Redevelopment Project faces a hurdle as the Railway Land Development Authority (RLDA) refuses to allow sub-leasing of the crucial 47.5 acres of railway land earmarked for the project. The DRPPL argues that, as state government bodies, DRP/SR...

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The government has so far approved 72 such registered vehicle scrapping facilities, or RVSFs, across 16 states and Union Territories. Of these, 34 are in Uttar Pradesh alone, six in Haryana and five each in Gujarat, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh. Only 38...

There are people who have lived inside an airplane for years as we live in our homes. A fully functional home, with over 1,500 square feet of living space, three bedrooms, two bathrooms and a hot tub.

Kylie Minogue is coming up with her 16th studio album 'Tension'. The singer has released the first song 'Padam Padam' from it.

Battery packs can cost tens of thousands of dollars and represent up to 50% of an EV's price tag, often making it uneconomical to replace them.

EVs constitute only a fraction of vehicles on the road, making industry-wide data hard to come by, but the trend of low-mileage zero-emission cars being written off with minor damage is growing.

The government is ready to offer lots of incentives to early birds in the form of lower GST rates, lower power and water tariffs along with fully developed land at much cheaper rates. These incentives will be for the first comers who can set up such...

The Rajya Sabha was adjourned sine die on Thursday, a day ahead of the scheduled end of the Budget Session. The Lok Sabha was also adjourned indefinitely as soon as the House met for the day.

The enforcement schedules provide sufficient time to put the desired ecosystem in place. The rules for fitness test and scrapping centres are to be finalised by October 1. GoI itself will deregister and scrap all government vehicles older than 15 ye...

It's all U.S. military equipment. The Americans are dismantling their portion of nearby Bagram Air Base, their largest remaining outpost in Afghanistan, and anything that they are not taking home or giving to the Afghan military, they destroy as com...

The Delhi Pollution Control Board last year, for instance, sealed around 30 illegal vehicle scrapping centres that dismantled end of life vehicles unscientifically.

Godown in Mumbai’s Mankhurd area continues to burn in flames. Fire fighters are present at the site. Fire broke out on February 05 and 19 fire tenders were present at the spot. No injuries have been reported so far. More details are awaited.Mumbai: ...

Every five years a vessel has to undergo a special survey that costs millions of dollars, money that’s hard to find when vessels are making a loss.

First off, there must be a cut-off age for vehicles after which they should be scrapped. A kilometre-based criterion will not work in India because odometers can be manipulated. Second, there should be separate age limits for different kinds of vehi...

Venture between Maruti and Toyota Tsusho India will supply, dismantle and process end-of-life vehicles, and market and sell scrap.

Gadkari emphasised that scrappage is an important issue, and one has to find ways of how and where to treat a ‘scrapped’ vehicle.

A majority of the 15 leased planes that still remain on Kingfisher Airlines's (KFA) name may be headed to the scrapyards.