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Rail excursions take passengers from Pottsville to Jim Thorpe

Edit The Morning Call 08 May 2016
POTTSVILLE — On Mother's Day, two rail diesel cars similar to the passenger trains that provided service from Pottsville to Philadelphia more than 30 years ago will be carrying passengers on an excursion from Pottsville to Jim Thorpe. It will be the first time a trip featuring such cars will depart... ....

Preparations in full swing for MCD bypolls

Edit Indian Express 08 May 2016
With a week to go for bypolls in 13 municipal wards in the capital, the State Election Commission is making preparations to ensure voting goes off without a hitch ... The election commission is also concerned about how the ban on diesel vehicles in Delhi and NCR will affect poll preparations. Share This Article. Related Article ... ....

In Chhattisgarh, a remote tribe fights drought with their will — and a well

Edit Indian Express 08 May 2016
Digging a well in Pipantola in Chhattisgarh’s Kabirdham district, home to the Baiga tribe. Dipankar Ghose. THE SUN singes their bodies, squabbles break out, so does laughter. Some are old, their foreheads wrinkled, some are just school children. There’s no contractor, no official, no one to supervise. But all that doesn’t matter ... Every month, the administration sends up trucks of diesel for the motor but that only lasts for so much time....

Two arrested in high-speed diesel smuggling racket

Edit The Times of India 07 May 2016
The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has arrested two persons in connection with a multi-crore high speed diesel smuggling racket from Delhi ... Surat DRI had unearthed a multi-crore racket of high speed diesel smuggling racket. The DRI sleuths had seized 8.62 lakh litres of high speed diesel from the Inland Container Depot (ICD) located at Ankleshwar....

‘Fast & Furious 8’ video shows Vin Diesel in Cuba, vintage cars drag racing

Edit Zap2it 07 May 2016
The fun clip begins with Vin Diesel, walking the streets of Cuba in shades and a sleeveless shirt ... In another video (below), Diesel explains the reason why the film’s plot will bring them to the land of mojitos and hand-rolled cigars ... “You can feel the emotion from all of the locals,” says Gray, as we see people lined up on the sidewalk to glimpse Diesel and his crew....

Green cabs

Edit Yahoo Daily News 07 May 2016
But, the recent Supreme Court (SC) crack down on the 30,000 diesel cabs in the National Capital Region (NCR) has come as a dampener for the business process management (BPM) companies—located across Gurugram and Noida—that transport lakhs of employees to work and back daily in diesel cabs....

‘Only solar energy can fight pollution’

Edit The Hindu 07 May 2016
He said that all fuels derived of hydrocarbons could not be pollution-free, with diesel being the worst ... “The need of the hour is to gradually suspend the use of diesel and petrol-guzzling modes of transport,” he said ... Vehicles that run on diesel, petrol should be gradually suspended, a panel appointed by ......

Truck owners threaten to intensify their stir

Edit The Times of India 07 May 2016
Mangaluru ... Similarly, the freight charges offered by agents on other routes too are very less considering the increasing prices of diesel, spare parts and tyres ... Sangha secretary Sachin Kulai said middlemen do not increase the freight charge when the diesel price is increased. Whereas, they reduce the charge whenever there is decrease in diesel price ... ....

Drivers, owners threaten jams in NCR

Edit The Hindu 07 May 2016
Hundreds of cab owners and drivers took out a protest march here on Friday against the recent Supreme Court order banning diesel cabs in the National Capital Region (NCR) ... The Supreme Court has only banned diesel cabs and not restricted the issuance of fitness certificates and permits to AITP cabs ... Surjeet, another cab driver, said that the blanket ban on all commercial vehicles running on diesel had left cab owners shocked....

Glencores Raglan Mine recognized for environmental excellence (Hatch Ltd)

Edit Public Technologies 07 May 2016
The Raglan Mine was chosen for its renewable electricity smart-grid pilot demonstration that in its inaugural year has saved 2.1 million liters of diesel and reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 5.85 kT ... The first-of-its-kind project uses Hatch's proprietary Microgrid Controller technology to monitor demand for wind power and smooth out wind power variations to displace diesel generation....

Jordana Brewster: Still Fast And Furious

Edit Empire 07 May 2016
Jordana Brewster looked briefly set to be a star after her bitchy turn in The Faculty and rather sweeter gearhead turn in The Fast and the Furious, where she swept Paul Walker off his feet despite being mystifyingly cast as Vin Diesel's sister (like, hello! They don't look anything alike....

Old and existing crimes should be inquired through Lok Ayuktha: D Pandian

Edit The Times of India 07 May 2016
Salem. The party that people vote to power in Tamil Nadu should introduce Lok Ayuktha to probe both old and existing crime cases, said CPI state secretary D Pandian on Friday ... Pandian claimed that Central government was responsible for soaring petrol and diesel prices and blamed it for hiking the excise duty. "Jayalalithaa has been condemning the petrol and diesel price hike ... "Our alliance will win the poll," he said ... ....

Cheaper fuel for holidays on continent, report says

Edit Belfast Telegraph 07 May 2016
Despite sterling slipping in value, the cost of both unleaded and diesel has fallen for a second successive year due to the drop in the price of oil, a report by Post Office Travel Money found. Share Go To. The biggest annual reduction in the price of petrol is in Switzerland, down 20p per litre to 95p ... The cheapest petrol and diesel out of the 20 countries included in the research was Andorra at 82p and 66p per litre respectively ... ... 1 ... ....
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