New Delhi: The AAP government can bring in odd-even car rationing scheme and put a ban on construction activities among a host of other measures to improve air quality in case the pollution level touc ...More

It’s that time of the year when vehicles’s number plates grab eyeballs in Delhi. Yes, we are talking about odd-even scheme in the national capital. The car rationing scheme, which was implemented in J ...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

More than $ 2.6 billion (18.2 billion Yuan) will be pumped into Beijing’s budget in 2017 to fight air pollution, it was announced over the weekend as northern China including the capital prepares for ...More

JAIPUR: For long, tourists have visited Thar Desert to breathe in clear air and glimpse of clear skies. Starry desert skies have always been attractions for tourists who camp on sands during night, tr ...More

Beijing, one of the most polluted cities of the world, will spend $2.6 billion to curb deadly air pollution. The city of about nearly 22 million has been grappling with suffocating smog for years tha ...More

BEIJING: A thick blanket of smog is set to return to Beijingfrom Sunday night even as the Chinese capital plans to spend USD 2.6 billion this year to fight air pollution. According to the municipal ...More

Beijing has issued a yellow alert for air pollution as a fresh bout of smog is set to hang over the city until tomorrow night. According to the municipal environmental protection bureau, Beijing’s air ...More

Beijing: Beijing, one of the most polluted cities of the world, will spend $2.6 billion to curb deadly air pollution. The city of about nearly 22 million has been grappling with suffocating smog for y ...More

GURUGRAM: The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has instructed the city's civic agencies to strictly implement construction and demolition (C&D) norms, as part of its aim to control air pollution ...More

Air quality in Gurgaon slipped from very poor on Thursday to severe on Friday. Experts said a dip in temperature and low wind speed caused a rise in pollutants in the atmosphere. Particulate matter ( ...More

NEW DELHI: Contesting the National Green Tribunal order banning more than 10-year-old diesel vehicles in Delhi and NCR to curb air pollution, the Centre approached the Supreme Court on Friday, saying ...More

The centre moved the Supreme Court on Friday against a decision by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) to ban diesel vehicles that are at least 10 years old from plying in the national capital reg ...More

Policy can be perverse. This much we know. What we should be amazed about is how policy can be counterproductive, retrograde and deadly, but remain undisclosed and undiscussed. But what am I ranting a ...More

The Centre on Friday moved the Supreme Court challenging the National Green Tribunal’s decision to deregister diesel vehicles that are older than 10 years and scrapping of such vehicles which are 15 y ...More

New Delhi: The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines air pollution as, “a major environmental health problem affecting everyone. It occurs when the environment is contaminated by any chemical, physi ...More

Delhi’s garbage conundrum is not new. With garbage hills piling up and a systemic failure in the way the corporations are running, everything has come to a standstill. A bench headed by the National G ...More

With air pollution adding to the civic woes due to inhalation of hazardous contents in general, Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) has decided to set up continuous ambient air quality mon ...More

GURGAON: The air quality has been reported to be hazardous around Sector 11 in Gurgaon. The air quality is at 405 (Hazardous) around Sector 11 in Gurugram (AQICN). Delhi and the National Capital Reg ...More

When a toxic haze descended on Delhi even before the sparkle of Diwali’s fireworks faded last November, it sparked off a flurry of long-delayed government activity. Daily meetings were convened, power ...More