Mumbai: While the Union Budget 2018-19 has dealt with the problem of air pollution in Delhi, environmentalists have claimed that it has no mention of any national-level action plan to curb pollution i ...More

New Delhi: Union Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari on Friday said both pollution and traffic congestion in the National Capital Region (NCR) will be reduced by half in the next two months. "We ar ...More

Greater Noida: The Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) has issued a notice to NTPC plant at Dadri for allegedly causing air pollution due to ash spreading in the area from the ash mound ca ...More

HYDERABAD: Nearly 580 million people in 280 cities do not have access to the air quality data of their cities, says the second Airpocalypse report released by Greenpeace recently, leaving them clueles ...More

Non-compliance of norms could lead to penalty The Environment Ministry has made it mandatory for companies seeking environment clearance to ensure that they put in place a dust mitigation plan. The ...More

Non-compliance of norms could lead to penalty The Environment Ministry has made it mandatory for companies seeking environment clearance to ensure that they put in place a dust mitigation plan. The ...More

Union Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari has said that both pollution and traffic congestion in the National Capital Region (NCR) will be reduced by half in the next two months. “We are working on ...More

NEW DELHI: Clean Air Asia, an NGO working on air pollution, launched its 'VAYU' app on Wednesday at Delhi Public School, Palam Vihar that will help educate schoolchildren and parents about air quality ...More

While last year's budget had drawn flak for failing to acknowledge the problem of pollution and tiger conservation, environmentalists expect a better deal this year. Getting accepted as a "national c ...More

NEW DELHI: Centre's move to earmark Rs 1000 crores to tackle stubble burning in NCR states was welcomed by air quality experts, but they also say critically polluted areas like Singrauli, Ghaziabad or ...More

London has a live tracker measuring each breach of hourly levels of toxic nitrogen dioxide and is accordingly shifting clean buses onto the most polluted routes, and Delhi has tried out everything fro ...More

SHIMLA: The state government has decided to rein in industrial units releasing pollutants into the Sirsa river in the Shiwalik foothills. The toxic waste of the Baddi Barotiwala Nalgarh Industrial hub ...More

NEW DELHI: The Centre has said that Rs 1,000 crore will be earmarked in the coming Budget to tackle the problem of stubble burning, among other things, in Delhi's neighbouring states in an effort to m ...More

In two years, India dropped 36 ranks to reach the bottom five in 2018 in a list that measures the environmental performance of 180 countries. The list – prepared by Yale University and Columbia Univer ...More

NEW DELHI: The National Green Tribunal has directed the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) not to grant clearance to any new thermal power plant till they comply with the standards set by it, ...More

NEW DELHI: At a time when the country is going gaga over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s keynote address at the World Economic Forum in Davos, a study on air quality conducted by Yale and Columbia Univ ...More

Mumbai: India ranked the fourth lowest out of 180 nations in terms of environment as per the Environmen-tal Performance Index (EPI), according to the latest report by Yale and Columbia universities. T ...More

NEW DELHI: A day after a global report put India almost at the bottom of its green ranking, the government on Wednesday said the country was doing its best on multiple fronts to protect the environmen ...More

Failure to check air pollution has made India the fourth worst country in the world in terms of curbing environmental pollution, according to Environmental Performance Index’s latest rankings. India r ...More

India is among the bottom five countries on the Environmental Performance Index 2018, plummeting 36 points from 141 in 2016, according to a biennial report by Yale and Columbia Universities along with ...More