RAJKOT: In a major move towards reducing noise and air pollution in the city, Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) mulls to ban six-seater autorickshaws, popularly known as 'chhakdas', in a phased manne ...More

The Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) on Thursday told the Delhi High Court that the ambient air quality in the year 2015 was not as bad as the previous four years. A division bench of Justice ...More

NEW DELHI: The capital lost a dubious crown on Friday with the country's pollution watchdog saying it is not India's most polluted city, perhaps not even the second worst. But Central Pollution Contro ...More

Unlike the public perception, the pollution levels in the capital last year was not as bad as other years, Delhi High Court said on Thursday after analysing the scientific data filed by the state poll ...More

New Delhi: Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) on Thursday submitted a status report on the city's air quality from 2011 to 2015 to the high court. It suggests that the air pollution levels in De ...More

Dr M P George of the DPCC told the bench of Justices BadarDurrez Ahmed and Sanjeev Sachdeva that due to the movement of air and dust storms in the Indo-Gangetic plain, Delhi was at a “geographical dis ...More

New Delhi: The crackdown had been sometime in coming. For 19 months, in fact, since a World Health Organization (WHO) survey of 1,600 cities ranked New Delhi to be the planet’s most polluted urban con ...More

Unlike the public perception, the pollution levels in the capital last year was not as bad as other years, Delhi HighCourt said today after analysing the scientific data filed by the state pollution c ...More

Unlike the public perception, the pollution levels in the capital last year was not as bad as other years, Delhi High Court said on Thursday after analysing the scientific data filed by the state poll ...More

The Delhi government's ambitious odd-even survey plan received a big boost as majority of the Delhites turned in favour of the plan and wanted it back in March. As many as 18,000 people responded to ...More

Dr M P George of the DPCC told the bench of Justices BadarDurrez Ahmed and Sanjeev Sachdeva that due to the movement of air and dust storms in the Indo-Gangetic plain, Delhi was at a “geographical dis ...More

New Delhi: The crackdown had been sometime in coming. For 19 months, in fact, since a World Health Organization (WHO) survey of 1,600 cities ranked New Delhi to be the planet’s most polluted urban con ...More

The concentration of suspended pollutants, which can be inhaled in to the body, was nearly eight times the permissible limits during the mornings last week in residential areas close to the Deonar dum ...More

To ensure testing centres follow emission norms The Motor Vehicles Department (MVD) is gearing up to bring down air pollution from teeming vehicles plying in the road network and tighten the grip ove ...More

New Delhi: Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) on Thursday submitted a status report on the city's air quality from 2011 to 2015 to the high court. It suggests that the air pollution levels in De ...More

The year 2016 started with a bold experiment by the Delhi government, which for 15 days allowed only cars with licence plates ending in odd and even numbers to ply on the roads on alternate days. The ...More

Air pollution, certain viral infections, along with tobacco in its many forms, are among the top five avoidable causes of cancer in India, concluded an extensive review of close to 500 known carcinoge ...More

NEW DELHI:Noting that outdoor air pollution increases the risk of cancer, WHO today urged governments of Southeast Asian region to tackle the issue with "urgency" as the area has 14 of the world's top ...More

NEW DELHI: Noting that outdoor air pollution increases the risk of cancer, World Health Organization (WHO) urged the governments of Southeast Asian region to tackle the issue with "urgency" as the are ...More

Air pollution in the capital will never come down to safe limits because of a geographical disadvantage, Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) told the Delhi High Court on Thursday. While controll ...More