New Delhi, Oct 26: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)-led Delhi Government may bring back the much debatable odd-even vehicle rationing scheme to curb air pollution in the capital city. Transport Minister Kai ...More

Aparna Banerji Jalandhar, October 25 While a marginal reduction was registered in the ambient air pollution level in the district this Diwali, compared to last year, there has been a marginal rise in ...More

New Delhi: While recent reports called out the crop-burning in Punjab and Haryana for the deteriorating air quality in Delhi-NCR, forecast by the Meteorological Department (MD) has said that this time ...More

Delhi has twice implemented the odd-even scheme in sweeping measures to reduce the city’s record-high air pollution by limiting the number of cars on streets. In view of increasing pollution levels t ...More

NEW DELHI: Nearly half of the roadways buses coming from other states to Delhi cause severe air pollution, a special drive by Delhi government's transport department to check pollution revealed. Th ...More

The Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB) on Monday formed two teams to check waste burning in the city. Burning of waste in the open has often been blamed for rising air pollution levels in G ...More

Concerned over the increase in air pollution level, the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) today issued an advisory, asking senior citizens and children to avoid going out in the open for few days. ...More

The UK Supreme Court strongly indicted the British government last year for failing to curb air pollution in their country. Their concern focussed on how air pollution was causing 29,000 early deaths ...More

The residents of Delhi and the national capital region are used to bursting crackers from Dhanteras onwards. But it didn’t happen this year. Did the ban on the sale of crackers diminish their fervour? ...More

New Delhi: Expressing concern over poor implementation of the Supreme Court ban on the sale of fire crackers in the Delhi-National Capital Region (NCR), industry chamber Assocham on Saturday said ensu ...More

NOT just air, level of noise pollution in major cities of Chhattisgarh including state capital Raipur, Bilaspur, Durg and steel city Bhilai had come down considerably on Diwali night, in comparison to ...More

Winter is coming and Delhiites have started experiencing the menace of pollution – it gets worse as the year nears its end. Notably, ambient air pollution is responsible for 3,283 premature deaths eve ...More

“This is the first global analysis of the impacts of pollution – air, water, soil, occupational – together as well as exploring the economic costs and the social injustice of pollution,” says Bruce La ...More

You might have to shell out R 5,000 if officials from the civic agencies or pollution control bodies catch you burning garbage, the Supreme Court-empowered Environment Pollution Control Authority has ...More

NEW DELHI: Air pollution in Delhi worsened again today and officials warned of little relief in sight from the smog, which has even caused an airline to cancel flights to the world's most polluted ca ...More

NEW DELHI: With Diwali knocking at its door, the Delhi government is likely to form an emergency action plan to deal with air pollution in the Capital. This plan would include stopping of constructi ...More

A day after the Supreme Court banned the sale of firecrackers in Delhi and the National Capital Region, state Environment Minister Ramdas Kadam tweeted that he would consult Chief Minister Devendra Fa ...More

The Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority (EPCA) — a Supreme Court (SC)-mandated body to monitor air pollution in the city — has directed the Transport Department of the Delhi gover ...More

New Delhi, Oct 9 (PTI) Diwali fireworks had lit up the skyline of Delhi on the night of October 30 last year, but darkness had descended the morning after as a dense blanket of smog turned the city in ...More

Uniform rainfall across the city in the past two days led to the city recording its cleanest air day on Monday since June 2015, when air quality monitoring and forecasting began in Mumbai. The air ...More