The ice mass on high Himalayan mountain pass Rohtang, overlooking this tourist resort in Himachal Pradesh, is reducing rapidly due to air pollution and in the next 20 to 25 years it may vanish altoget ...More

The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) welcomed the National Green Tribunal's judgement to ban more than 15-year-old vehicles from Delhi roads with some circumspection. In a release, reacting to ...More

NEW DELHI: Revealing glaring lapses in the performance of the Railways in managing environment risks, a Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report has found that no comprehensive environmental guidelines ...More

Environmentalists welcomed the National Green Tribunal’s decision to ban old vehicles, but said the emphasis should also be on curbing pollution from any vehicle irrespective of its age. As per a 201 ...More

NEW DELHI: A day after National Green Tribunal gave a detailed order for tackling air pollution in Delhi, the agencies tasked to do so seemed to be in a haze. In fact, some officials claimed they were ...More

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi may not have had this in mind when he launched the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan or cleanliness drive, but the National Green Tribunal has stepped in to address the Cap ...More

NEW DELHI: On the day TOI highlighted the worsening state of Delhi's air, the National Green Tribunal cited the report and issued a slew of directions to immediately address the problem. Among the ...More

NEW DELHI: Amid concerns over rising air pollution in the national capital, the Government today said it has taken various measures to prevent mortality arising out of such a situation. Noting tha ...More

Amid concerns over rising air pollution in the national capital, the Government today said it has taken various measures to prevent mortality arising out of such a situation. Noting that air pol ...More

Dismayed at increasing air pollution in the national capital, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has held that all vehicles which are more than 15 years old would not be permitted to ply on the city ro ...More

Taking decisive action to improve Delhi’s air quality, the National Green Tribunal Wednesday banned all vehicles over 15 years old, and ordered pollution checks for all state-run buses and the install ...More

Air pollution has continued to be a serious health risk in Delhi with the levels of tiny particles that carry toxins and go deep inside lungs having remained 3-4 times the standards in the last three ...More

NEW DELHI: Environmental activists and experts have welcomed National Green Tribunal's directions to deal with air pollution in the city but said the efforts of the government should be more focused o ...More

BHAGALPUR: With a view to checking air-pollution vis-a-vis vehicle emission, the district transport office (DTO) has launched a 'Go green campaign' in Bhagalpur district. The transport department's en ...More

NEW DELHI: Dry leaves, which are a precious resource for making compost, are more often being burnt in the city. Smoke from such biomass burning is adding to Delhi's severe smog crisis and very high p ...More

WASHINGTON: Coming full circle on a campaign promise, the Obama administration will propose Wednesday to reduce the amount of smog-forming pollution allowed in the air, which has been linked to asthma ...More

New Delhi: Dismayed at increasing air pollution in the national capital, the National Green Tribunal on Wednesday held that all vehicles that were more than 15 years old would not be permitted to ply ...More

Poor air quality coupled with falling temperature had pushed up admissions by almost 30% in the last two weeks, sources said. Emergencies are crowded and ICUs in many hospitals are out of beds. Most ...More

American scientist Joshua Apte travels in an autorickshaw to present alarming findings for anyone who spends time on or near the roads in this city of 25 million. The autorickshaw lurched through Ne ...More

NEW DELHI: A parliamentary panel has found serious lapses in railways' pollution control measures and observed that the national transporter has not issued any comprehensive guidelines for transportin ...More