NEW DELHI/BEIJING: While Delhi continues to debate the 'tough' anti-pollution measures announced by the city government, China's capital Beijing on Monday issued its first "red alert" on air pollution ...More

Even as Delhi debated over the 'even-odd' car strategy on Monday, foul air choked the capital's residents. Air quality readings across various places in the city showed PM 10, 19 times and PM 2.5 almo ...More

Fifty-five lakh two-wheelers are the biggest contributors to the national capital's vehicular pollution, but the Delhi Government is in two minds over imposing the odd-even number restriction on them. ...More

Officials in the Chinese capital declared for the first time on Monday evening that the thick smog blanketing the city was bad enough to require a red alert, the highest level of alarm. It was the fir ...More

Bengaluru seems to be going the Delhi way, given the high incidence of pollution and consequent spike in lung-related diseases. The transport sector contributes to almost 42 per cent of air pol ...More

New Delhi: In a bid to to combat rising air pollution, the Centre is contemplating issuing directions to the state governments in NCR under section 18 of the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) ...More

Beijing/Shanghai: Beijing issued its most severe smog warning for Tuesday—the first time the municipal government has issued a so-called red pollution alert—after acrid-smelling haze returned to the C ...More

WHILE Delhi continues to be in the spotlight for its unhealthy air quality, its neighbour Gurgaon is not far behind. In response to an RTI by a city-based activist, the Haryana State Pollution Control ...More

BEIJING, DEC 7: China's capital Beijing on Monday issued its first ever "red alert" for pollution, as the city government warned that Beijing would be shrouded in heavy smog from Tuesday until Thur ...More

JAIPUR: Any vehicle, even with a public representative or a bureaucrat in it, entering the transport offices including the regional transport office (RTO) or district transport office (DTO) across the ...More

On a day that Beijing declared its first ever air pollution red alert, Delhi surpassed its Chinese counterpart. No red alerts, however, will be issued anytime soon. Four stations in Delhi, Anand Viha ...More

City authorities are going to keep a keen eye on the capital's car rotation plan and see how it pans out before implementing it Bengaluru will be keeping a close eye on New Delhi's soon-to-be-launc ...More

New Delhi: With the level of pollutants and particulate matter in the air going up, hospitals in the city have witnessed a spurt in the number of people suffering from respiratory ailments, asthma and ...More

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s war on air pollution is significant in ambition and elaborate in method. For those worried about the smog and the dust choking the city’s streets, his government ...More

Tough to enforce Delhi’s road rationing policy At one level, it was heartening to see the Delhi High Court’s description last week of the national capital as a “gas chamber”, on account of its alarmi ...More

The newly-appointed Chief Justice of India, Justice T.S. Thakur, has extended support for the 'odd-even traffic formula' suggested by the Delhi Government to curb the menace of ever rising pollution i ...More

A group of cycling enthusiasts from Go Cycle Club (GCC) organised "Cyclathon" here on Sunday in a bid to highlight worsening air pollution in the town, adjoining Delhi in Uttar Pradesh. About 400 peo ...More

With the level of pollutants and particulate matter in the air going up, hospitals in the city have witnessed a spurt in the number of people suffering from respiratory ailments, asthma and bronchitis ...More

NAGPUR: The ever-deteriorating quality of indoor and outdoor air in the world is causing many respiratory distress and diseases. The global death toll from these diseases stands at 8.4 million, with a ...More

Ministers from 196 countries will discover the devil in the detail when they move forward to deliver an overarching climate framework by the end of next week, with finance as the biggest sticking poin ...More