I have just discovered, courtesy of the first such study conducted by the ministry of health and independent health agencies, that I live in the Indian region with the highest number of life years los ...More

New Delhi: India’s coal-based power sector may seek to avoid compliance with the strict emission norms that are due to take effect next month, according to a new analysis by the Centre for Science and ...More

NEW DELHI: Pollution should be seen as a serious health issue, rather than just as an environmental problem, according to experts who today called for immediate action to reduce the impact of pollutio ...More

NEW DELHI: Pollution should be seen as a serious health issue, rather than just as an environmental problem, according to experts who today called for immediate action to reduce the impact of pollutio ...More

Nalgonda: The SS School of Nalgonda organised Children’s Day in a unique way in Nalgonda on Tuesday. In association with IMA Neelagiri, the school management conducted an awareness programme on the il ...More

Even as Delhi breathes toxic air tantamount to smoking 50 cigarettes every day, Union Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan continues to assert that it is no 'emergency'. Emergency, he believes, was th ...More

New Delhi: Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan has said there is no need to spread panic among the people over the present air pollution situation in Delhi, adding it is not like the Bhopal gas tragedy ...More

Even as the capital continues to wrest with alarming levels of pollution, Delhi government authorities saw themselves at the receiving end of censure from the National Green Tribunal. A bench heade ...More

Gurugram: Deadly air pollution levels have forced district administration to close more than 200 industrial units in the city. Not only are the smaller players but even the bigger players like Mar ...More

Ludhiana: Agriculture experts in Punjab have sought an effective ban on stubble burning in the wake of air pollution reaching alarming levels in northern states. During a meeting organised by the Pun ...More

The headlines about Delhi’s polluted air are deceptive. For the Indian Medical Association and the Delhi government to call this an emergency is akin to the captain of a ship waiting until after it ha ...More

Between 2007 and 2012, a study examined 10,565 births at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (SGRH) to assess the link between air pollution and birth outcomes in the capital. For this, maternal and neonatal data ...More

The Delhi Government’s dilemma – over whether the odd-even scheme should be implemented or not on city’s roads – is taking a toll on the national capital’s air. The government on Saturday retracted fr ...More

NEW DELHI: After a brief let-up, the pollution levels skyrocketed in Delhi today with the air quality becoming hazardous, which environmental agencies consider unfit for inhalation even by healthy peo ...More

The Delhi government on Monday will make a fresh push for odd-even road rationing, asking to National Green Tribunal to exempt two-wheelers and cars driven by women from the plan, even as the pollutio ...More

After a brief respite on Saturday, Delhi’s air quality deteriorated once again, reaching “severe” levels — this time with an AQI of 460 on a scale of 500. The concentration of particulate matter was r ...More

GREATER NOIDA: After Noida Authority penalized allottees nearly a crore of rupees in two days for flouting norms laid down by the National Green Tribunal(NGT), Greater Noida Industrial Development Aut ...More

New Delhi: Suresh Jain has generated graphs and numbers on his desktop that outline what it will take for the National Capital Region, plagued by dangerous air pollution levels that peak each winter, ...More

The Delhi government on Saturday put on hold the odd-even traffic rationing system from Monday saying it would approach the National Green Tribunal (NGT) and request that women drivers and two-wheeler ...More

Delhi is a city that has always been bursting at the seams. When its foundation stone was laid by Emperor George Vth at the Delhi Durbar in 1911, only 4.13 lakhs of what was India's 25.2 crore populat ...More