Delhi must adopt anti-pollution steps taken by other megacities like Beijing and Mexico City if the Indian metropolis is to get serious about tackling its annual smog crisis, experts say. A toxic clo ...More

New Delhi: Every third child in Delhi has impaired lungs, a research and advocacy body here said today in a new study, which also probes some of the yet-unexplored links between air pollution and a pe ...More

Right from the capital to all the metropolitan cities in India, air pollution has engulfed the entire country. This is due to human misconduct, like vehicle emissions, heavy industries, construction a ...More

The pollution level in and around Delhi has touched new heights and has crossed all limits. In fact, it was reported that Delhi was virtually converted into a gas chamber few days back and the denizen ...More

New Delhi: Every third child in Delhi has impaired lungs, a research and advocacy body here said today in a new study, which also probes some of the yet-unexplored links between air pollution and a pe ...More

NEW DELHI: Highlighting major links between environment and health, a study released here on Monday held lifestyle diseases like obesity, mental health, cancer and heart diseases to count a few, as th ...More

Air pollution in Delhi has dominated the headlines over the past few weeks and rightly so. The problem is especially urgent because Delhi is not the only polluted city in the country. Eleven of the 20 ...More

New Delhi: Worldwide, pollution kills at least nine million people every year and threatens the continuing survival of humans, according to a new landmark study. The report showed that pollution in so ...More

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court-appointed environment body has on Friday called a meeting with governments of Delhi's neighbouring states to ensure that necessary measures and restrictions are imposed "b ...More

NEW DELHI: The Centre will soon set up an inter-ministerial task force, headed by the Prime Minister's principal secretary, Nripendra Mishra, to look into the issue of Delhi's air pollution and find w ...More

New Delhi: Once upon a time, water purifiers in India were considered an item bought only by the rich and affluent in their quest for all things perfect. And yet, over the years, these technological m ...More

Taking cognisance of the air pollution in the national Capital, the Supreme Court-appointed agency Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA) is planning to devise a system under which measures li ...More

Weather analysts warn that there could be a return of a smog-like situation in Delhi towards 25 November. Many residents have decided to stay indoors to avoid the toxic air outside. But experts say th ...More

Animals die due to untreated waste from 977 industries mixing in the river Tired of Taloja MIDC area’s desolate condition at the Navade Village, which is under constant cover of hazardous pollutant ...More

THANE: Breathless, could be the one word that can describe the life in the lake city. A study by the municipal administration has revealed that more than 90% of the over 22 lakh population live in are ...More

MUMBAI: Namita Singh's young daughter suffered from bronchitis when the family lived in the northern Indian city of Lucknow, where fumes from clogged traffic and a smoky haze every winter outweighed t ...More

As air quality in Delhi remains a major issue and chief ministers of the three states Punjab, Haryana and Delhi play politics over Twitter, its alarming how India has failed to take concrete steps to ...More

While toxic smog remains one of the biggest concerns in Delhi, a large number of vehicles are flouting pollution under control (PUC) norms. Vehicular emission contributes to 20 per cent of the city’s ...More

The Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) mandated by the Supreme Court to counter air pollution was meant to be an effort in regional cooperation. The entire National Capital Region (NCR), which sees th ...More

The government on Thursday asked its largest utility NTPC Ltd to blend crop residue with coal at its power plants, a move that should help reduce pollution in Delhi as well as supplement farm incomes. ...More