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| Delhi is the most polluted city: WHO study |
| Press Trust of India |
| Business Standard , Thursday, May 08, 2014 |
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Delhi is the most polluted city in the world, according to a WHO study released today. The 2014 version of the Ambient Air Pollution (AAP) database contains results of outdoor air pollution monitoring ...More
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| 'Indian cities have dirtiest air' |
| Reuters |
| Business Standard , Thursday, May 08, 2014 |
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An effort by the World Health Organization (WHO) to measure pollution in cities around the world has found New Delhi having the dirtiest air, while Beijing's measurements, like its skies, are far fr ...More
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| Delhi has the worst air pollution in world: WHO study |
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| The Economic Times , Thursday, May 08, 2014 |
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NEW DELHI: Delhi is the most polluted city in the world when it comes to air quality, according to a WHO study released on Wednesday. However, Gujarat and the southern states have relatively cleaner ...More
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| New Delhi has dirtiest air among 1600 cities: WHO |
| ANI |
| Business Standard` , Thursday, May 08, 2014 |
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World Health Organisation has revealed that New Delhi is the most polluted city in the world.
The international organization, which measured pollution in cities around the world, found that Beijing ...More
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| Delhi air worst in the world |
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| The Times of India , Thursday, May 08, 2014 |
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NEW DELHI: Delhi has the most polluted air in the world. A World Health Organization (WHO) air quality database of 1,600 cities and 91 countries released on Wednesday shows that the concentration of P ...More
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| Panel banks on guarantee to check pollution |
| Riyan Ramanath V |
| The Times of India , Wednesday, May 07, 2014 |
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BHUBANESWAR: The Odisha State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) has decided to keep bank guarantee from industries to put pressure on them to comply with environmental norms in a time-bound manner.
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| Panel banks on guarantee to check pollution |
| Riyan Ramanath V |
| The Times of India , Tuesday, May 06, 2014 |
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BHUBANESWAR: The Odisha State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) has decided to keep bank guarantee from industries to put pressure on them to comply with environmental norms in a time-bound manner.
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| Report backs greens, finds civic body isn't tree-friendly |
| Ananya Dutta |
| The Times of India , Tuesday, May 06, 2014 |
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PUNE: A report from the commissioner, appointed by the National Green Tribunal (NGT), Pune, to assess the status of trees along the Ghorpadi-Mundhwa Road is in tandem with tree activists' views about ...More
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| Indoor pollution: Greatest environmental risk |
| Susan Brink |
| Deccan Herald , Tuesday, May 06, 2014 |
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Seven million people die each year because of exposure to air pollution. That’s one in eight deaths across the globe, making air pollution the single greatest environmental health risk on Earth.
Th ...More
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| 150 Villagers Besiege Paper Factory Over Air Pollution |
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| The New Indian Express , Monday, May 05, 2014 |
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Irate members of the public besieged the cement factory of Tamil Nadu Newsprint and Papers Limited (TNPL) here, as raw material from there, carried by the wind, was causing health problems for people ...More
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| Needed: basic amenities |
| Tanu Kulkarni |
| The Hindu , Monday, May 05, 2014 |
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The Rajajinagar Industrial Estate, one of the first industrial layouts of the State, is today a pocket which lacks basic amenities. Established in 1958, the industrial estate houses a large number of ...More
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| Chinese man seeks divorce as smog drives family apart |
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| The Times of India , Friday, May 02, 2014 |
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BEIJING: A Beijing man is seeking to divorce his wife after she took their son to a tropical island province to escape the capital's notorious smog, saying the long-distance relationship had destroyed ...More
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| Set Up Body on Pollution: HC to Puducherry |
| Debjani Dutta |
| The New Indian Express , Thursday, May 01, 2014 |
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The Madras High Court has directed the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MOEF) and Puducherry government to constitute an Appellate Authority under Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act 198 ...More
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| US top court upholds cross-state air pollution rule |
| AFP |
| Business Standard , Wednesday, April 30, 2014 |
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President Barack Obama's administration has scored a major victory when the US Supreme Court revived regulation limiting harmful emissions that blow across state lines.
A coalition of six progre ...More
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| Don’t make us Guinea pigs |
| Anumita Roychowdhury |
| Live Mint , Tuesday, April 29, 2014 |
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The World Cancer Report released by the World Health Organisation (WHO) early this year was shocking. Not only the worldwide burden of cancer has increased many times, middle-income and poor countries ...More
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