Coimbatore: According to the new global urban ambient air pollution ranking released by WHO on Thursday, Chennai is the most polluted city in Tamil Nadu with a global ranking of 314. The state capital ...More

Last week, the World Health Organization (WHO) gave Delhi a small reason to cheer: The city is no longer the most polluted in the world. That crown of thorns now sits on the head of Zabol in Iran. Rea ...More

NEW DELHI: Data released by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) on Saturday showed air pollution levels in 2015 were higher than the two previous years at most its monitoring stations. On the c ...More

NEW DELHI: Data released by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) on Saturday showed air pollution levels in 2015 were higher than the two previous years at most its monitoring stations. On the ...More

New Delhi, May 15 () The Delhi government will soon issue fresh directions to the NTPC-run Badarpur thermal power plant to come up with an action plan for disposing of flyash, a major source of air po ...More

New Delhi, May 13 (PTI) With the World Health Organisation (WHO) accepting that air pollution has reduced in Delhi, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar today said his government will continue to ma ...More

Nagpur: Taking note of news '3,988 trees felled in five years, most in 2015-16' published in TOI , a delegation of Green Vigil Foundation on Friday objected to the civic body's move to chop off 108 tr ...More

Raipur: Chhattisgarh capital Raipur has earned the dubious distinction of being among seventh top polluted cities in the world—relegating Delhi to the eleventh spot—but the only solace is that the sit ...More

Already struggling with the tag of India’s dirtiest city, now Dhanbad’s air is not safe to breathe, revealed a World Health Organization (WHO) that has ranked the city 38th in the list of 100 most pol ...More

Bengaluru: Everybody is on a pollution watch now, whether it is checking air particulate matter using filters or measuring temperature with sensors. This concern will find a voice at Datameet's fifth ...More

Increasing air pollution will have a severe impact on health of people: report Davangere was once the hub of industries in Karnataka, but its bad roads have now brought it the ignominy of being a hig ...More

Bengaluru, which figured on the list of 150 most polluted cities in the world in the recently released urban air pollution database of the World Health Organisation (WHO), has more to worry about than ...More

Air pollution could lead to 570,000 premature deaths in India, according to a new report. For the new study, researchers at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology and the US National Center for ...More

New Delhi: Environmentalists today sounded caution over the latest WHO report, which showed that Delhi was not the most polluted city as per 2013-14 data, saying it does not give the right picture. G ...More

GENEVA: India is home to four of the five cities in the world with the worst air pollution, the World Health Organization said on Thursday. But while WHO experts acknowledge India faces a "huge ch ...More

No sooner the World Health Organisation (WHO) released its report dislodging Delhi from the dubious title of being the most polluted city in the world, there was a rush to claim credit. AamAadmi Part ...More

BENGALURU: Residents of Benniganahalli and Sadananda Nagar have approached the High Court seeking directions to the authorities concerned to stop severe noise and air pollution in their localities. Th ...More

Air pollution could lead to 570,000 premature deaths in India, according to a new report. For the new study, researchers at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology and the US National Center for ...More

Delhi is no longer the worst polluted city in the world in terms of air quality, a new World Health Organiastion (WHO) report revealed on Thursday. According to the report, in terms of PM2.5 measurem ...More

The World Health Organisation’s (WHO) report on air pollution has made one trend very clear – cities that lie north of the Vindhyas need to watch out. Ten of the top 20 polluted cities in the world l ...More