The Delhi High Court on Thursday, expressing serious concern on the increasing air pollution in the capital "akin to living in a gas chamber", asked the central and city government to act strongly to ...More

India will force all commercial trucks more than 15 years old off the road from April and is reviewing how it checks vehicle emissions, a senior transport official said, as the government tries to cur ...More

Delhi witnessed a “seven-fold increase” in air pollution level since October 1, a Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) expert said on Thursday even as real-time exposure readings of nearly all mon ...More

Living in the Capital is like being “in a gas chamber” said the Delhi high court on Thursday as it gave a slew of directions including a check on construction sites creating dust pollution, implementa ...More

With National Pollution Day (December 2) and World Health Organization (WHO) declaring air quality of Indian metropolitan cities worst in the world, healthcare professionals are registering a sharp ri ...More

NEW DELHI: After a neck-and-neck race with Beijing over the past few winters, Delhi may soon find itself without a rival for the 'most-polluted-city' crown. The Chinese city is doing its best to fall ...More

Observing that the current air pollutionlevels in the national capital have reached "alarming" proportions and it was akin to "living in a gas chamber", the Delhi High Court on Thursday directed the C ...More

While prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed concern over rising pollution and climate change at the Paris summit recently, his own governments in states are not serious about dealing with pollution. ...More

New Delhi: India will force all commercial trucks more than 15 years old off the road from April and is reviewing how it checks vehicle emissions, a senior transport official said, as the government t ...More

A pro-environment Sikh American group today said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should commit to reducing carbon emissions and to work towards a meaningful agreement at the UN climate summit in Par ...More

With Delhi’s foul air getting more toxic by the day, the city’s pollution control body is planning daily warnings informing people about ‘pollution hotspots’ and advice that includes going car-free. ...More

With pollution increasing in Delhi, the State government on Wednesday came under severe criticism of the National Green Tribunal for not acting “seriously” to improve the deteriorating air quality in ...More

China will upgrade its coal-fired power plants to reduce the discharge of pollutants by 60 percent before 2020, top officials said today. The move will save around 100 million tonnes of raw coal a ...More

WASHINGTON: A pro-environment Sikh-American group today said that India should commit itself to reducing carbon emissions and work towards a meaningful agreement at the UN climate summit in Paris. "W ...More

The green watchdog on Wednesday severely criticised Delhi government for not acting “seriously” to improve deteriorating air quality in the city and directed it to convene an urgent meeting on the iss ...More

Despite the increasing number of vehicular traffic on the hills, the air is still clean in key hill stations of Himachal Pradesh, however, the rapidly growing industries has increased pollution level ...More

Beijing choked on Tuesday under the thickest blanket of smog for 2015, with the concentration of hazardous particulate matter peaking at around 900 in parts of the city of 21 million people. Similar ...More

This is the challenge before the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB), which has started the process of quantifying and monitoring odour. Snaking through residential areas, and even betwee ...More

IN THE last three years, there has been a dip in city’s air quality with scientists at the System of Air Quality Forecasting and Research (SAFAR) flashing the ‘red colour code’ on its index. The red c ...More

Despite the increasing number of vehicular traffic on the hills, the air is still clean in key hill stations of Himachal Pradesh, however, the rapidly growing industries has increased pollution level ...More