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: The petition seeking ban on firecrackers in NCR has been pending in the Supreme Court since 2015 but the court's approach had been inconsistent on the issue. The first order to ban its sale ...More

New Delhi, Oct. 9: Doctors hailed the Supreme Court directive today that bans the sale of firecrackers in Delhi until past Diwali as a measure to protect people from air pollution, but traders said th ...More

NEW DELHI: Ahead of the upcoming festive season of Diwali, the Supreme Courtbanned the use and sale of fire crackers in Delhi and NCR. The ban of use of fire cracker will continue till November 1. ...More

The Supreme Court on Monday banned the sale of firecrackers in the Delhi-National Capital Region during the upcoming festive season of Diwali, according to several media reports. The ban on sale of f ...More

New Delhi: The Supreme Court would pronounce on Monday its verdict on whether firecrackers would be sold in the Delhi-National Capital Region (NCR) during the upcoming festive season of Diwali. A b ...More

Chandigarh, Oct 8 (PTI) High cost of agricultural residue burning machinery and lack of an alternative mechanism are proving to be biggest hurdles in the implementation of the ban on burning paddy stu ...More

Honking its way down the narrow Taraouri Road, in Haryana’s Karnal district, the 16-wheeler truck vanished into a dense cloud of smoke billowing from a field set on fire by its owner to get rid of the ...More

Honking its way down the narrow Taraouri Road, in Haryana’s Karnal district, the 16-wheeler truck vanished into a dense cloud of smoke billowing from a field set on fire by its owner to get rid of the ...More

GURUGRAM: The district authorities in Gurugram are expected to face a tough time, as residents of the Millennium City are not expected to give up their firecrackers. Even as a plea was made by Distr ...More

NEW DELHI: Firecrackers will not be sold in Delhi and nearby towns on Diwali this time as the Supreme Court has restored a ban on their sale till November 1, saying it wants to assess the difference ...More

Diwali, the festival of lights is round the corner and so is the fear of pollution in the capital. The cracker ban might have been imposed by the Supreme Court last year, but that did not dampen the ...More

GHAZIABAD: The UP Pollution Control Board(UPPCB) has initiated action against five factories in Ghaziabad, which were found to be violating air quality standards during a survey undertaken last month. ...More

The Supreme Court in the year 2015 and 2016 had issued the orders to not allow trucks in Delhi which are not destined for the city. Taking the cognizance of the rising air pollution in the national ca ...More

A little past midnight at the Delhi-Ghaziabad border on Thursday, a police officer walks to a truck with ‘India is Great’ painted behind it, and asks, “Pataake toh nahi hain?” The driver shakes his he ...More

Trichy: "Vedigalai Kuraippom, Chedigalai Valarpom" (Let's reduce crackers and grow plants), a novel initiative aimed at bringing down the noise and air pollution this Diwali, a city based environmenta ...More

The stadiums have been renovated, the publicity posters hung. But not everything was ideal for players in the Under-17 World Cup being hosted in India, with air pollution beyond recognized safe levels ...More

Central government’s air monitoring agency SAFAR has stated that the air quality of the national capital has turned “poor” and the situation is likely to worsen in the next few days owing to the upcom ...More

Diwali is about to come before that Air Quality of Delhi started deteriorating. According to the System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research (SAFAR), the air quality of Delhi will worse ...More

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday reserved its verdict on a plea seeking restoration of its last year’s order banning the sale of firecrackers in Delhi-National Capital Region. The Central Pollu ...More