MUMBAI: Mumbai has trounced Delhi as India's most polluted city on two consecutive days starting Sunday. The US embassy's air quality index (AQI) readings for the area around its embassy in New De ...More

NEW DELHI: The Centre is likely to announce on April 13 a time-bound plan to cut pollutionlevels in the national capital region. With worsening air quality, particularly that of cities like Delhi, ...More

Like the pall of dust that recently enveloped parts of western India, having wafted its way from the Arabian Gulf, the rhetoric that the Prime Minister indulged in at the state environment and forest ...More

Facing a tough challenge to curb rising pollution in the city,Delhi government has asked the Centre to make strict provisions in law to impose hefty penalty on vehicles more than 15 years old entering ...More

HYDERABAD: Most government thermal power plants in Telangana state and Andhra Pradesh have been continuously violating basic environmental standards and polluting natural resources including air, grou ...More

New Delhi: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday banned diesel vehicles that are over 10 years old from the Indian capital and its surrounding areas, moving to curb hazardous automobile emissio ...More

GHAZIABAD: Smoke billowing out of the chimneys of the industrial units in the Sahibabad Site IV industrial area are not only triggering respiratory problems in trans-Hindon colonies of Ghaziabad, but ...More

A new study has examined that air pollution levels are linked to a dangerous narrowing of neck arteries that occurs prior to strokes. According to researchers at NYU Langone Medical Centre, found tha ...More

NEW DELHI: The Environment Ministry has decided to come out with rules to deal with the health hazards posed by the waste generated from construction of various infrastructure projects. Union Envi ...More

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday launched a national air quality index (NAQI) that will rate the quality of air people are breathing in 10 cities in real time. The index will cove ...More

NEW DELHI: With Prime Minister Narendra Modi launching a national Air Quality Index(AQI), India on Monday joined a global league of nations which includes US, France, China and Mexico that have implem ...More

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday launched the National Air Quality Index (AQI) for monitoring the quality of air in major urban centres across the country on a real-time basis and enhancing publ ...More

Launching the first national air quality index in New Delhi on Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India's contribution to the pollution level in the world was one of the lowest and urged the co ...More

The government has done well to launch a national air quality index in Delhi. It is a reflection of the determination of the political leadership of the country to do something to clean the air. The n ...More

Taking note of The Indian Express article on the effects of construction on air pollution in Delhi, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar on Monday said the government will bring in, within the next ...More

Concerned over increasing pollution levels in the national Capital, Delhi government on Monday told the Centre that there should be a common parameter for curbing pollution in Delhi-NCR. At a meeting ...More

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday blamed the changing lifestyles that have come with India’s economic development for rising pollution levels that have given the country some of the world’s dirti ...More

MUMBAI: Mumbai has trounced Delhi as India's most polluted city on two consecutive days starting Sunday. The US embassy's air quality index (AQI) readings for the area around its embassy in New Del ...More

Acting on global concerns about the worsening quality of air, the Environment Ministry on Monday launched the National Air Quality Index (AQI). The index, which is hosted on the Central Pollution Cont ...More

Index to provide data on level of pollutants in 10 cities across India Amid growing concerns over deteriorating air quality in India’s major cities, the government on Monday launched the National Air ...More