Lately, air pollution has been popping up in conversations with the inevitability of a hangover after spirited celebrations. It’s the only thing people in Delhi are talking about. If they’re not gripi ...More

CPCB’s North Zone office in-charge in Lucknow, PK Mishra, attributes Kanpur’s polluted air to a combination of factors. Reasons for pollution: Vehicular emission: Every month, at least 250 public t ...More

NEW DELHI: While radical steps have been taken to curb air pollution in the national capital, the state government and law enforcement agencies are almost clueless how to deal with alarmingly high noi ...More

The Delhi government has said that the first set of data collected with its mobile air quality sampling method, after the odd-even policy came into effect, is “encouraging”, and has shown a dip in lev ...More

As many as 229 people were ‘challaned’ on Saturday for the violation of norms in the odd-even formula scheme for rationing of vehicles on the second day of its implementation in the Delhi. Yesterday, ...More

MANGALURU: With major cities like Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore facing alarming increase in vehicular congestion and vehicular air pollution, an organization has come out with suggestions to solve the e ...More

GURGAON: There was a considerable decrease in Gurgaon's air pollution level on the first day of the odd-even scheme in Delhi. In fact, pollution levels registered a decline of 15 to 42% on three param ...More

U.P., Haryana slammed for not taking harsh action against polluters Uttar Pradesh and Haryana were pulled up by the Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA) on Saturday for not taking harsh act ...More

The government will soon declare rules for management of various types of waste, as part of its action plan for 2016 to achieve post-Paris Climate Change targets. In a slew of review meetings held ...More

Delhi has become the most air polluted city in the world. Urgent and effective actions are needed to bring the pollution level down. The cost to the health of Delhi citizens far exceeds any cost that ...More

Ludhiana: Ludhiana was the least polluted in 2015 when compared to the three years preceding it, shows data with Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB). The data suggests that there has been a gradu ...More

An analysis carried out by a policy research organisation on Friday said that air pollution levels violated the prescribed limits on the last day of the year and air quality was very “poor” exposing p ...More

The first day of implementation of AAP government's odd-even scheme might have gotten a thumbs up from the social media but reports say pollution levels were actually higher than most days. The Centre ...More

Air pollution during November and December this winter worsened compared to last year with air quality deteriorating into the 'severe' category on most days, an analysis of pollution data by Centre fo ...More

New Delhi: In an effort to meet targets under the recently approved Paris climate change agreement and to take forward the ongoing clean and green India drive, the government is expected to take multi ...More

Pollution in the national capital this winter was "worse" than last year and reducing cars by half through odd-even restrictions can decrease exposure to toxic emissions by several times, says a Centr ...More

The ambitious scheme is a first such intervention in the country to combat spiralling air pollution Municipal councillors, commissioners and other civic officials on Friday welcomed the rolling out o ...More

New Delhi: Air pollution vacillated, reducing between 8am and 2pm before rising again, on Day One of the Delhi government’s odd-even experiment to check pollution in the national capital, even as expe ...More

The newest battleground in Delhi’s fight against foul air is people’s lungs. The Delhi health ministry on Friday decided to conduct on-the-spot lung function tests on people to monitor the impact of ...More

As Delhi experimented with odd-even formula to curb pollution, the state government, in collaboration with Maulana Azad Medical College (MAMC), has launched a drive to assess the lung capacity of the ...More