Indicating its doubts on the feasibility of the government’s decision to introduce the odd-even number plate scheme from January 1, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) Friday said it “may even encourage ...More

NEW DELHI: Cardiovascular and cardiothoracic surgeon Dr Naresh Trehan on Friday showed what many of us had been suspecting for a long time-air pollution is damaging our lungs. Trehan compared the l ...More

Beijing’s first-ever red alert for smog was lifted on Thursday, as blue skies and sunshine replaced the thick haze that had covered the city for days. The Chinese capital put its air pollution emerge ...More

Maharashtra Environment Minister Ramdas Kadam today blamed the rise in number of vehicles on roads for increasing air pollution in Mumbai. Making a statement on the calling attention motion of Atu ...More

The absence of a concrete policy to deal with the growing air pollution in the capital reflects on our ability to cope up with this problem, the Supreme Court observed on Thursday and called for a mul ...More

Environment Minister Ramdas Kadam said Thursday the government would enforce the ban on old outdated vehicles not adhering to non-pollution norms. He also assured to bring a slew of measures, includ ...More

Delhi’s air pollution has been one-and-a-half times worse than in Beijing over the past week, according to an IndiaSpend analysis of PM 2.5 (Particulate Matter) concentration data. The analysis is ba ...More

NEW DELHI: Several studies have shown that motorcycles could be worst polluting vehicles after diesel trucks entering Delhi from other states, even more harmful to the environment than cars and heavy ...More

NEW DELHI: When air pollution hits a certain danger mark in Beijing, the government issues a red alert that automatically puts curbs on factories, construction work and vehicles. If Delhi had a simila ...More

With a strong observation that Delhi is earning "bad name" due to air pollution, theSupreme Court on Thursday asked the Centre and the AAP government to come up with "common minimum acceptable program ...More

With odd-even scheme for private vehicles set to start from January 1 in the capital, the Delhi government will soon issue guidelines on carpooling policy for commuters and office goers. Delhi Dialog ...More

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday called for a consensus among stakeholders for a minimum acceptable plan to tackle air pollution. The court was hearing a bunch of applications on reducing air ...More

Auto industry body SIAM today said it is unfair to single out cars for pollution as their share in vehicular emissions is only around 10 per cent, adding that Delhi government’s move to curb car use m ...More

Crop stubble burning in neighbouring Punjab has added enormously to Delhi’s pollution woes. Governments must consider Nepal’s example of monetarily awarding farmers who keep away from the ecologically ...More

Delhi government’s ambitious plans to counter the rising air pollution has a mathematical angle to it We all studied odd and even numbers when unimaginably young. Years passed, primary school gave wa ...More

BEIJING: Beijing residents stayed indoors, schools were closed and limits on cars, factories and construction sites kept pollution from spiking even higher on Wednesday, the second of three days of re ...More

NEW DELHI: Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Wednesday that the government was considering exempting women, driving alone or in the company of other women, from the restrictions of the odd-even t ...More

Putting aside their differences, the Centre and the AAP government in the Capital seem to have come together to effectively implement the odd-even scheme announced by Delhi government for plying of pr ...More

Crawling traffic and not merely the number of vehicles on city roads is polluting the Delhi air. Delhi Traffic Police have identified 15 major stretches and 50 other spots where excessively long idlin ...More

NEW DELHI: The Delhi government has roped in technology major IBM to study and collect data on the effect of vehicular traffic on the quality of air in a bid to tackle rising air pollution levels in t ...More