The air quality in the city was marked ‘very poor’ on Wednesday, worse than the pollution level in Delhi according to Central Pollution Control Board’s (CPCB) air quality index report. The daily air ...More

NEW DELHI: India's deepening pollution problem, which hit home with a vengeance after Diwali last year as Delhi and NCR woke up enveloped in smog that refused to lift for days, has a death toll second ...More

India and China account for more than half of the world's premature deaths due to air pollution, a new report on Tuesday said. Noting that India's lives lost to the tiny particulate matter (PM) is ...More

NEW DELHI: The government here may be in denial mode on linking premature deaths to air pollution, but a new study on global air pollution by the US-based institutes claims that the India's worsening ...More

SHANGHAI: China and India accounted for more than half of the total number of global deaths attributable to air pollution in 2015, a study published on Tuesday said. Research by the US-based Healt ...More

GURUGRAM: Air quality index in Gurugram touched the 356-mark on Monday, surpassing 28 other cities in terms of pollution again. The other severely polluted cities were Muzaffarpur, Haldia, Lucknow, ...More

Beijing has banned high-emission vehicles in a bid to control recurring air-pollution enveloping the city with a population of 21.7 million people. Starting from tomorrow, light-duty gasoline-powered ...More

New Delhi , Feb.13, (ANI): The air quality remained poor in the city, New Delhi. The prominent pollutants PM 2.5 and PM 10 levels remained above normal at most of the locations in Delhi, according to ...More

BEIJING: A new round of air pollution is expected to hit Beijing and 20 other cities in eastern China due to unfavourable weather conditions, the China National Environmental Monitoring Centre warned ...More

The government seems to have taken carrot-and-stick approach to curbing pollution through bans on old vehicles. While, in December 2015, it had announced that all commercial vehicles older than 15 yea ...More

GURUGRAM: The number of migratory birds visiting Sultanpur National Park is up by 20% this year. Pleased with more migratory birds flocking to the park, forest officials attributed the 'favourable ...More

VIJAYAWADA:Residents of Ajith Singh Nagar are up in arms against the manner in which garbage is being disposed of for the last two weeks at the Excel Plant owned by the Vijayawada Municipal Corporatio ...More

In its fight against the looming winter smog over the NCR, the Haryana government has decided to follow the Beijing model. The state is in talks with a Holland-based company to set up smogfree towers ...More

Chinese cities that sit on three pollution "highways" have been told to coordinate efforts to reduce emissions, as Beijing and the country's northeast regions brace for another bout of heavy smog this ...More

New Delhi, Feb 10 The ban on selling and stockpiling of firecrackers will continue in Delhi and NCR as the Supreme Court today refused to modify its earlier order of suspension of licences of traders ...More

carry large amount sulphur which is one of the major causes of air pollution. "The lighting effects and noise levels depend on the chemistry of fireworks and the combustive features of the ingredient ...More

The Supreme Court on Friday refused to lift ban of selling and transportation of firecrackers in Delhi and NCR. The ban to continue till next the date of hearing. A total of 100 firecracker companies ...More

The National Green Tribunal today formed a panel comprising officials of the pollution control boards of Delhi and Uttar Pradesh to examine air quality, noise pollution and traffic congestion near the ...More

Chhattisgarh's capital Raipur has witnessed a decline in air pollution level in the past two years, according to a Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) report. "CPCB had submitted a report of an ...More

Pollution control boards across the country criticised for failing to stop pollution of water bodies Civil society members accused the State Government of non-implementation of G.O. 111 and attemptin ...More