The hurdle faced by the Delhi government in implementing the odd-even scheme shows the challenges in controlling air pollution in the national capital. Even though the NGT ordered the Delhi government ...More

Can the Centre bypass the Delhi government to take emergency and long-term steps to tackle the annual air pollution crisis in the capital? It can, legal experts say. The Ministry of Environment, Fores ...More

There is no improvement in Delhi's smog situation and pollution level as the morning haze continues in the city. The air quality in Delhi worsened further this morning with the minimum temperature dro ...More

The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and a Supreme Court-appointed environment body have recommended “free of cost public transport” in Delhi for the next few days as the region faces a “pollu ...More

NEW DELHI: Delhi breathed poison on Wednesday with pollutants touching calamitous levels, as a thick grey smog hung low across the region, prompting authorities to declare schools shut till Sunday, ha ...More

There is no denying the fact that Delhi has emerged as a gas chamber due to its rising pollution levels that seem no improvement. After a brief respite, pollution levels spiked up once again yesterday ...More

It was also clear that it did not matter where you lived. Pollution was pervasive. So even the green parts of the city, where the elite lived, were equally affected. This helped, I believe, to make us ...More

Nagpur: To prevent New Delhi like situation in the city in future, an international NGO Clean Air Asia has planned to help the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) in framing air quality action plan for ...More

A day after play was interrupted twice during the ongoing Test match between India and Sri Lanka at the Feroz Shah Kotla stadium, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) Monday rapped the Delhi government f ...More

The National Green Tribunal pulled up the Delhi government on Monday for not filing a comprehensive action plan on ways to deal with severe air pollution, criticising the authorities for holding the I ...More

Day 2 of the third India-Sri Lanka Test was halted for over 20 minutes due to smog as Air Quality Index in Delhi crossed 350 With the Air Quality Index reaching 351 — rated as ‘very poor’ — on Sunday ...More

GUWAHATI: Last winter, Kandarpa Das (name changed), a farmer in Barpeta'sPatacharkuchi village, about 95 km from here, angered other members of the farming community when he set on fire stubble on his ...More

Low temperature and absence of winds resulted in very poor air quality on Monday morning with the Air Quality Index (AQI) in Delhi spiking to 386 in “very poor” category, according to the Central Poll ...More

The Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban) was launched in 2014 with the goal to clean India. If the mounting garbage on street corners wasn’t enough to grant legitimacy to the need for this mission, the fact ...More

Heavy fines will be imposed if a report is not filed within 48 hours, it says. The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Monday rapped the Delhi government for not submitting an action report on tackling ...More

Mumbai breathed the most polluted air in the state during the Diwali week, a nine-city air quality analysis by the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has revealed. The pollution measuring ind ...More

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, OCTOBER 25: If India reduced its air pollution to comply with the WHO air quality standard, its people could live about four years longer on average, or a combined more than 4.7 ...More

MUMBAI: The city's air quality was the worst in the state during Diwali this year, Maharashtra Pollution Control Board's nine-city air quality analysis has found. MPCB's Diwali 2017 report stated t ...More

The realisation that pollution is playing havoc with our lives continues to elude Indians. We are indeed living from moment to moment largely oblivious of the toxic air quality that we breathe day in ...More

The Delhi government may bring back the odd-even scheme to restrict the number of cars on the road in view of the increase in pollution levels, Transport Minister Kailash Gahlot has said. The ministe ...More