Air pollution-related death tolls in Delhi and Mumbai are on the rise. In 2015, an estimated 80,665 adults over 30 years of age died prematurely due to exposure to PM10, pollution particles we inhale ...More

Deaths due to air pollution in Mumbai and Delhi have doubled over the last 25 years, and together with chronic bronchitis, it accounts for 95% of premature deaths in two of India’s biggest cities, fou ...More

NEW DELHI: In an effort to reduce air pollution due to vehicular emissions in the country, scientists have designed a new solar-assisted bicycle that may prove to be a low-cost, eco-friendly alternati ...More

Air pollution contributed to 80,665 premature deaths of adults over 30 in Mumbai and Delhi in 2015, a two-fold jump from 1995, according to a new study at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. ...More

Diwali, the festival of lights, was about lighting diyas and other lights. Then the firecrackers came and we suddenly have a lot of noise and air pollution. Did we ban Diwali? No, we began a movement ...More

NEW DELHI: In an effort to reduce air pollution due to vehicular emissions in the country, scientists have designed a new solar-assisted bicycle that may prove to be a low-cost, eco-friendly alternati ...More

The odd-even formula will be enforced in the entire national capital region, including Gurgaon, Noida, Ghaziabad and towns as far as Alwar, Rohtak and Meerut, when air quality in New Delhi reaches the ...More

New Delhi: The Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority (EPCA) will hold a meeting of various stakeholders in the National Capital Region (NCR) on Friday to chalk out a course of actio ...More

The Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB) on Wednesday formed teams to inspect the Pollution Under Control Certificate (PUC) issuing centres in the city. The move comes after the Central Po ...More

Breathing in India’s cities seems to have become a dangerous activity. It is almost as deadly as using tobacco. According to a recent report issued by global environment NGO, Greenpeace, air pollution ...More

According to a TOI report, the central government has approached the country’s honorary Supreme Court contesting the National Green Tribunal’s (NGT) ban on diesel vehicles which have been on the road ...More

MUMBAI: Air pollution contributed to a total of 80,665 premature deaths of adults over 30 years in Mumbai and Delhi in 2015, a two-fold jump from 1995, according to a new study at the Indian Institute ...More

GURGAON: The Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB) and the city's civic agencies on Wednesday said they were gearing up to conduct inspections of construction sites, pollution checking centres ...More

KOLKATA: A much-awaited study to detect the source of air pollution and quantify the amount of contaminents in Kolkata and Howrah has finally been commissioned by the West Bengal Pollution Control Boa ...More

The Supreme Court has warned that the problem of air pollution is very serious and solutions need to be found urgently. A bench of Justices M B Lokur and P C Pant said that some of the victims of air ...More

Even after the environment ministry issued a notification on Tuesday enforcing a graded response plan to tackle air pollution in Delhi-NCR, the authorities in cities such as Gurgaon and Faridabad are ...More

MUMBAI: As minimum temperatures dipped and humidity levels continued to be high, pollution levels in the city breached the 'very poor' quality mark. On Tuesday, the System of Air Quality Weather Fo ...More

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday warned that the problem of air pollution was very serious and solutions need to be found urgently, rather than in years. "This pollution problem is very seri ...More

The district administration is still in a fix over implementation of the odd-even road rationing scheme in Gurgaon to reduce pollution in the absence of adequate public transportation in the city. Ev ...More

Norway rarely makes headlines for the wrong reasons, but seems like even its capital, Oslo, couldn’t keep high pollution levels at bay. Oslo will temporarily ban diesel vehicles because of acute level ...More