With Delhi only a few hours into the AAP government’s odd-even scheme, car traffic at one of the busiest intersections in the city near the Income Tax Office – popularly known as ITO – appeared to be ...More

First three days of 2016 to see very poor air quality according to IITM pollution data; experts advise Punekars to stay indoors The new year has barely started, but the bad news has already started ...More

Friday, January 1 will signal the start of an unprecedented government intervention as an odd-even road rationing policy is rolled out to control air pollution amid mounting health concerns over air q ...More

Visakha United People’s Front (VUPF) on Thursday staged a protest at the Gandhi statue against pollution in general and the severe air pollution during the last 10 days in particular and demanded step ...More

The US and French embassies have decided to voluntarily comply with the restrictions being implemented under the Delhi government’s odd-even policy from January 1-15 to control vehicular pollution, ev ...More

Just ahead of Delhi implementing its odd-even car scheme, two cities in Europe have taken the tough call to stop their surging pollution levels. Italy's fashion hub, Milan, banned all traffic, from 1 ...More

With the New Year, the Delhi government implemented the odd-even plan or road space rationing in an effort to check the Capital’s alarming level of air pollution. Air pollution is not only about to ...More

With pollution reaching alarming levels in the national capital, the Centre on Wednesday directed Delhi and three neighbouring states to take immediate steps like action against “visibly polluting veh ...More

New Delhi: Amid reports of alarming level of air pollution in the capital, the Centre on Wednesday issued a 42-point action plan to handle the situation and directed Delhi and three neighbouring state ...More

With the Delhi government's odd-even policy set to roll out in two days, the union ministry of environment, forests and climate change (MoEF&CC) too issued fresh directions to all governments falling ...More

A consensus couldn’t be arrived at the meeting chaired by Road Transport and Highways Secretary, Vijay Chibber he Union government’s crackdown on air pollution, by implementing stricter vehicular emi ...More

Nagpur: State run power generation company Mahagenco seems to be completely apathetic towards the threat to human lives it has created due to high level of emissions from its power plants. Not only is ...More

Barely 48 hours before India's most ambitious anti-pollution formula hits the road, the Delhi High Court has asked some of the toughest questions. Why should women be exempt? Why should the city's 55 ...More

Hundreds of schoolchildren took a pledge in the presence of Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday to fight pollution and convince their parents, relatives and friends to adhere to the odd- ...More

ROME: Italy's centre-left government on Wednesday authorised local authorities to cut traffic speed limits by 20kph (12mph) and office heating by two degrees in response to spikes in deadly air pollut ...More

Kejriwal warns volunteers: Don’t argue, misbehave Just two days before the “odd-even” car restrictions will be implemented in the nation’s capital to reduce air pollution, the Delhi high court on Wed ...More

If after more than three decades of Chinese growth, Beijing recorded high air pollution levels, then New Delhi achieved the ignominy in much lesser time sans the growth. In Delhi too, like many other ...More

New Delhi: An Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur study has found alarming details on Delhi’s air pollution, including the presence of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), that are extremely tox ...More

NEW DELHI: The Central Government on Wednesday issued directions to all agencies falling under Delhi airshed area under Section 18 of the Air Act 1981 to control air pollution and improve the ambient ...More

At 4 pm on Tuesday, as averages based of real time readings of New Delhi's air were rolled out in the laboratories of the Central Pollution Control Board, the city had a relatively better day. From th ...More