Who's more affected by toxic air: A young executive in New Delhi or a housewife in a Haryana village? One might assume the executive is worse off---after all, Delhi has the world's worst air. Yet a ...More

New Delhi: The odd-even scheme has reduced rush-hour air pollution despite "hostile weather conditions", Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA) told Delhi high court on Friday. The body set up ...More

The odd-even car formula has got a positive response from those who are directly dealing with it and are the ones most affected by the rising vehicular pollution. For a large number of Delhi traffic p ...More

Air quality in Mumbai on Friday was worse than that during Diwali. The Air Quality Index (AQI) – a pollution measurement tool – in the morning was 315 which falls under the ‘very poor’ category. On ...More

MUMBAI: The Air Quality Index (AQI) continued to remain in the 'very poor' category in Mumbai for the third consecutive day. Since January 6, the AQI has been above 300. Experts said that there isn' ...More

Gurgaon: A week into the odd-even experiment, the levels of black carbon in the air have decreased by almost 50% according to a study by Indian Aerosol Science and Technology Association and students ...More

Air-pollution levels in Delhi rose 50% during the first week (January 1 to 7, 2016) of the state government’s odd-even measure over the previous week (December 25 to December 31, 2015), according to a ...More

Govt’s claim that pollution in the city has dropped over the past week is at odds with data of the daily average levels as well as peak values of PM The Delhi government's claim that pollution in the ...More

The car rationing plan is reducing PM2.5 pollutants during the day almost every day, said Transport Minister Gopal Rai on Thursday, making a case for the continuation of the odd-even scheme for full 1 ...More

Beijing's environmental watchdog meted out fines totalling 183 million yuan ($27.9 million) during 2015 for violation of pollution laws, the media reported on Friday. Amid an intensified campaign to ...More

Air quality levels in the city on Thursday was the worst since November 12, the day after Diwali. Mumbai recorded an air quality index (AQI) – a pollution measuring indicator - of 312 which falls unde ...More

Patna: Despite air pollution level in the state capital being almost equal to that of the national capital, adopting Delhi's one-week-old odd-even traffic formula to reduce pollution level in Patna is ...More

The most prominent pollutant in Delhi's air, PM 2.5, has "come down" by around 25% as compared to December's figures, Delhi government said on Thursday attributing the "drop" to the prevailing odd-e ...More

New Delhi: The air quality in Delhi has been fluctuating from poor to severe since the beginning of this year when Delhi began implementing its trial odd-even scheme to reduce the number of cars ply ...More

The AamAadmi Party government on Friday told the Delhi high court that it may extend the odd-even scheme beyond the 15-day trial period, saying it has a “definite positive” effect against air pollutio ...More

Air-pollution levels in Delhi rose 50% during the first week (January 1 to 7, 2016) of the state government’s odd-evenmeasure over the previous week (December 25 to December 31, 2015), according to ...More

NEW DELHI: Delhi's transport minister Gopal Rai claimed on Thursday that levels of PM 2.5, primarily caused by vehicular pollution, had come down by 25-30%. "Yesterday, the levels recorded at 18 locat ...More

Beijing's average PM2.5 density of small deadly particles increased 76% year-on-year between November 15 and December 31, a period during which China sounded its first red alert over pollution trigg ...More

NEW DELHI: An interplay of hostile weather conditions made air quality oscillate between 'severe' and 'very poor' in the city today, limiting the gains of the 'odd ¬even' car rationing scheme. Monitor ...More

Delhi is sharply divided into camps in support of and against the odd-even formula for cars. The division is sharper than that based on ownership of odd and even number cars, since there are household ...More