Alappuzha, Kerala: Pitching for increased use of bio-diesel and CNG and reducing in diesel consumption, union minister for road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari on Friday said it would not only be ...More

NEW DELHI: The road transport ministry does not find it feasible to implement the National Green Tribunal's order to ban Delhi diesel-run vehicles which are more than 10 years old, especially in case ...More

The Union government seems to be divided over the Greenpeace campaign against the Mahan coal block project in Madhya Pradesh. In its inspection report regarding the environment group's campaign again ...More

Stating that a citizen’s “right to live” must not be compromised for “small economic gains”, the National Green Tribunal has ordered a complete halt from Saturday to construction activity in Delhi and ...More

What National Green Tribunal ordered for Delhi on Tuesday, while taking up same issues as raised by The Indian Express in ‘Death by Breath’ series: On air quality NGT, April 7: “In the recent past t ...More

Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Delhi on Thursday said it was working on a detailed plan of action to remove around 1.53 lakh diesel vehicles older than 10 years from the city ...More

GHAZIABAD: The analysis of Ghaziabad's air samples, collected by the state pollution control board, has come to alarming conclusions. Levels of suspended particulate matter in the city's air have been ...More

JAIPUR: A recent National Green Tribunal (NGT) order taking cognizance of rampant illegal mining in Tijara, and Tapukara in Alwar district and Kishangarh had prohibited all illegal mining and banned t ...More

Take a deep breath. You have just increased your chances of having a lower life expectancy, as you will know if you have been following this newspaper’s campaign on the subject of Delhi’s air. That is ...More

The launch of the national air quality index in Delhi by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has more symbolic than real significance. The index is in place in 10 major cities now and will be expanded to 46 ...More

PATNA: The CAG has slammed the Bihar State Pollution Control Board (BSPCB) for neither conducting any survey to identify the polluting industries in the state, nor maintaining any such inventory for p ...More

Any decision to expand roadways must take into account the shrinking wildlife spaces. On April 6, a unique State Environment and Forest Ministers’ conference took place in New Delhi, the first of its ...More

It's a first and necessary step, they say, in accessing the tens of billions of dollars it will cost to provide cleaner cookers worldwide for some 2.8 billion people still using firewood, kerosene or ...More

Following the launch of the national air quality index by the Prime Minister on Monday, the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has been directed by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) ...More

BEIJING: China's Hebei Province, known for the worst air pollution has announced 50 per cent cut in coal usage to improve the air quality besides closing down clay brick kilns. Hebei Province in n ...More

China's Hebei Province, known for the worst air pollution has announced 50 per cent cut in coal usage to improve the air quality besides closing down clay brick kilns. Hebei Province in northern Ch ...More

If you thought leaving Delhi was one option to escape its toxic air, you might need to think again about where you’re going. For, different versions of the Delhi story appear to be playing out in the ...More

While it is great that the government has initiated a National Air Quality Index, it is also paramount that India makes haste in implementing preventive measures as well. The average man in urban Indi ...More

In the seven years that Delhi frittered away the gains of the CNG order, the one major public transport intervention has been the Metro which, as it goes to newer areas in the National Capital Region ...More

During his routine morning jogs, Vardhaman Kaushik often felt his stamina was going down. The young environment lawyer choked on what he felt was highly toxic air. In February 2014, he moved the Nat ...More