New Delhi: With the air quality dipping and the national capital in perpetual pollution crisis, two Delhi students have come up with the concept of a “self-sustainable” car that runs using electromagn ...More

SHIJIAZHUANG: China 'ssmoggiest city closed schools Wednesday as much of the country suffered its sixth day under an oppressive haze, sparking public anger about the slow response to the threat to chi ...More

GURUGRAM: After being reprimanded by the NGT for failing to take adequate measures to contain the growing air pollution, the state government has finally decided that all the 500 buses, part of the pr ...More

National Green Tribunal on Thursday passed a slew of directions including setting up of centralised and state level monitoring committees to prepare action plans to combat pollution and asking four no ...More

NEW DELHI: With poor air quality in the national capital becoming a cause of concern, NCRPB, an urban planning body for the NCR, today directed Delhi and adjoining states to submit action plans to con ...More

With poor air quality in the national capital becoming a cause of concern, NCRPB, an urban planning body for the NCR, today directed Delhi and adjoining states to submit action plans to control air po ...More

The Delhi government today made it clear that the third phase of odd-even scheme will only happen in the city with prior adequate preparations and awareness to the people as Transport Minister Satyend ...More

Raising concern over the poor air quality in Delhi and its adjoining area, the NCR Planning Board on Tuesday asked its member states Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan -to submit their action ...More

National Capital Region Planning Board asks 5 States to submit action plan NEW DELHI, DEC 20: The dwindling forest cover in Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan has provoked the National Ca ...More

Growing air pollution level in the city was the top agenda of the National Capital Region Planning Board (NCRPB) meeting on Tuesday as it reviewed measures being taken by the four member states and Pu ...More

NEW DELHI: The national capital region (NCR) may be one of the most polluted regions in the country but many industries located here are still running on an extremely polluting fuel-furnace oil. A ...More

Though the weather is lending a helping hand, the air quality in the Capital has remained in the “very poor” category. The Delhi-NCR has some respite from the dense fog cover till Christmas eve but th ...More

SHANGHAI/BEIJING: Heavy smog engulfed large parts of northern China for a fourth straight day on Tuesday, with the environment ministry warning that some firms in the region were continuing to flout e ...More

Beijing, December 19: Hospital visits spiked, roads were closed and flights cancelled Monday as China choked under a vast cloud of toxic smog, with forecasters warning worse was yet to come. At least ...More

Hordes of residents of China's capital are "fleeing" to south in pursuit of cleaner air after the year's worst smog prompted authorities to issue a national "red alert", according to a media report. ...More

Concentrations of airborne pollutants in a major northern Chinese city exceeded a World Health Organisation (WHO) guideline by 100 times on Monday as north China battled with poor air quality for the ...More

NEW DELHI: The capital cities of world's two most populous countries have similar skylines. On ground though, the scenes are contrasting as Beijing pulls out all stops in its bid to bring down polluti ...More

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s parliamentary constituency Varanasi is more polluted than his workplace Delhi. According to the data released by Central Pollution Control Board (CPCP) for the week Dece ...More

Chinese cities are limiting the number of cars on roads and have temporarily shut down factories to cut down pollution during a national ‘red alert’ for smog. State media reported on Monday that more ...More

NEW DELHI: The national capital region (NCR) may be one of the most polluted regions in the country but many industries located here are still running on an extremely polluting fuel-furnace oil. A ...More