NEW DELHI: A first-ever environmental rating of coal-based power plants has found that India's thermal power generating units figure among the world's "most inefficient" in terms of compliance to poll ...More

NOIDA: Vehicles more than 15 years old will now have to pay green tax if they ply on roads, and the money will be used for the protection of environment, the UP government has said. After giving a nod ...More

New Delhi: India’s coal-based thermal power plants are some of the most inefficient in the world and have high pollution levels, said a two-year long study by the Centre for Science and Environment ...More

NEW DELHI: In his first review meeting with the environment and forests department, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal dismissed all other issues, choosing to discuss only the rising levels of air polluti ...More

India’s high air pollution, ranked by the World Health Organisation among the worst in the world, is adversely impacting the lifespans of its citizens, reducing Indian lives by over three years, a new ...More

A new study says that high particulate matter (PM) pollution reduces life expectancy by 3.2 years for 660 million Indians in polluted urban conglomerates, including Delhi, which means a loss of 2.1 bi ...More

Exposure worse than the ambient air pollution monitored Shunned as one of the world’s most polluted cities, Delhi is literally gasping for breath with air pollution levels skyrocketing without restra ...More

New Delhi: The life of 660 million Indians, about half of the country’s total population, is being cut short by around three years due to severely polluted air, said a new study released on Saturday ...More

NEW DELHI: Those who use public transport or prefer walking or cycling are exposed to extremely high air pollution levels. While this is obvious because these commuters spend most of the time near tai ...More

You must be breathing "unacceptable levels" of toxic air in Delhi as the national capital city is literally gasping because of skyrocketing levels of air pollution, according to a new data. However, u ...More

Delhi is gasping for breath with the common man, who uses public transport and goes walking and cycling, getting exposed to air that is more toxic than surrounding environment monitored by pollution c ...More

A study by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has found that pedestrians and those travelling daily by buses, auto-rickshaws and the Metro are exposed to pollution levels that can be over 30 ...More

NEW DELHI: Concerned over rising pollution in the national capital, environment minister Prakash Javadekar on Thursday said the ministry will ask the AAP government to prepare a master plan to deal wi ...More

New Delhi: Emissions in Delhi have been progressively rising since 2010 as has the contribution of the transportation sector to the city’s air pollution, according to a study by the Indian Institu ...More

BLAME GAME 'WASTES' MORE TIME Girish Bapat passes buck back to PMC to resolve crisis, despite its abject failure to do so till date; he is yet to visit city's depots although it was discussed in ...More

Your smartphone can turn into a personal, real-time pollution monitor by pinpointing where and when pollution is at its worst, scientists say. "As urban residents know, air quality is a big deal ...More

Your smartphone can turn into a personal, real-time pollution monitor by pinpointing where and when pollution is at its worst, scientists say. "As urban residents know, air quality is a big deal. When ...More

New Delhi, Feb. 19: Barack Obama has earmarked pollution in India as a challenge of "importance" after his trip here in January, a senior US government official said today, underscoring the worries ...More

New Delhi, Feb. 19: Barack Obama has earmarked pollution in India as a challenge of "importance" after his trip here in January, a senior US government official said today, underscoring the worries in ...More

GHAZIABAD: Alarmed over the high level of groundwater and air pollution in the city, residents of Ghaziabad on Thursday submitted a memorandum to the NCR Planning Board, giving it a deadline of March ...More