NEW DELHI: Multi-brand showrooms in the capital have been teaching their sales staff terms like HEPA (high-efficiency particulate arrestance) and CADR (clean air delivery rate) lately. There has been ...More

The Delhi government is yet to thrash out the modalities of curbing vehicular pollution but the message has been sent. The car-owning class has been told that they must prepare for the eventuality. I ...More

New Delhi Delhi: A committee set up by the Union health ministry has recommended that an action plan be framed to map exposure to air pollution in people's micro environment. For instance, the exposur ...More

NEW DELHI: A day after the Delhi government announced that odd and even numbered vehicles will be allowed to ply on alternate days from January 1, CM Kejriwal said on Saturday that it was an experimen ...More

The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) on Saturday welcomed the Delhi government's decision to curb unbridled pollution in the national capital by plying odd and even number vehicles on alternat ...More

With the raging debate on increasing vehicular pollution in cities, the Centre has blamed the states over their apathy for poor monitoring of the situation despite repeated reminders. Despite th ...More

In a recent directive, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) sought a public health advisory on pollution from the Delhi government, to warn people about deteriorating air quality in the capital and sugge ...More

As the world’s most polluted capital tries to clean up its fetid air, the Delhi government on Friday decided to allow odd and even number vehicles to ply on city roads on alternate days from 1 January ...More

NEW DELHI: Allowing even- and odd-numbered cars to run on alternate days is a quick-fix for Delhi's winter smog but not a long-term answer to air pollution, experts say. That's because people who are ...More

New Delhi: Starting in the New Year, private cars and two-wheelers will be allowed on Delhi’s roads only every other day—a move to curb vehicular emissions that have earned the Indian capital notoriet ...More

The Delhi government announced on Friday each private car and two-wheeler will be allowed on the city’s roads only every other day from next year in a bid to even the odds stacked against authorities ...More

Clearing the air is what the Supreme Court usually does. The top court is doing it again, literally this time. At 9.15 am Friday, a group of men with equipment and machines walked briskly towards the ...More

Desperate times call for desperate measures. The Delhi government’s answer to the city's pollution problem, however, raises its own set of questions. A day after the Delhi High Court compared living ...More

Taking a tough decision to improve the city's toxic air quality , Delhi's AAP government on Friday decided to restrict the number of private vehicles on the roads for a fortnight starting on New Year' ...More

In order to check the rising air pollution in the city, the Delhi government today has decided that an odd and even number vehicles will run on alternate days in the capital from January 1. The deci ...More

NEW DELHI: Air quality in Delhi has been going from bad to worse and the situation is "serious", Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar today said, claiming the government has prepared a one-yea ...More

NEW DELHI: Taking a tough decision to improve the city's toxic air quality, Delhi's AAP government on Friday decided to restrict the number of private vehicles on the roads for a fortnight starting on ...More

Speaking at the launch of the Indian State of Forest Report in New Delhi, on Friday, Union environment minister Prakash Javadekar brought up the burning issue of Delhi's pollution levels. The union mi ...More

Amid rising concerns over pollution level in the Capital and other cities in India, the government plans to ban trucks and buses older than 15 years from plying on the roads across the country. The M ...More

NEW DELHI: With the National Green Tribunal coming down on Delhi government for the city's deteriorating air quality, the environment department has decided to step up action against polluters. Thursd ...More