HYDERABAD: The city may soon have to replicate Delhi chief minister Kejriwal's odd-even rule to combat the rising levels of pollution, indicates data available with pollution monitoring bodies. Dea ...More

NEW DELHI: To check toxic emissions from heavy diesel vehicles, the Supreme Court-mandated Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA) recently directed manufacturers that all vehicles sold from Ap ...More

In a first, three states including Delhi, will meet to discuss the strategy to combat air pollution effectively. The move has come after reports on air quality assessed that emissions from the Delhi-N ...More

The Asian Development Bank has approved USD 499.6 million loan for a green financing platform in China targeting the air pollution in several parts of the country. The platform -- the first of its ...More

Though a hint of blue sky could be seen in Varanasi on Tuesday, air pollution remained at dangerous levels. For years the Holy City’s population of more than 1 million people have been living under e ...More

Air pollution in the city spiked again between Sunday and Monday, showing an increase of 116% in the concentration of PM2.5. Monday was the most polluted day after December 7, when air quality had fi ...More

MYSURU: Users of vehicles emitting smoke beyond permissible limits and causing air pollution will have to be careful. Reason: Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) will soon introduce an emi ...More

National Energy Conservation Day is observed all over India on December 14 to make people aware of global warming and climate change and promote a conscious effort towards saving the energy resources. ...More

New Delhi: Delhi Environment Minister Imran Hussain on Tuesday reviewed the ambient air quality position with scientists and engineers of the Delhi Pollution Control Committee and senior officials of ...More

The holy city of Varanasi has India’s most toxic air, and many north Indian cities are recording worse air-quality than Delhi, according to a new report, in which IndiaSpend is a collaborator. In 201 ...More

Beijing: China's meteorological authority on Sunday upgraded its smog alert from yellow to orange, the second most serious level, after air pollution worsened in many parts of the country, including c ...More

KOCHI: Noting that India's air pollution is higher than the standards prescribed by WHO, a cardiac specialist today said high levels of air pollution imparts a risk for heart diseases particularly in ...More

Heading to Delhi? Hold your breath. Every breath you take in Delhi is a 'deadlier' intake, because the air quality in the capital city has now attained the worst ever levels in 17 years. Situation go ...More

New Delhi, Dec. 11: The Union science and technology ministry and the global chip maker Intel have announced a $5-million (Rs 33 crore) joint research initiative that seeks to develop a new generation ...More

Pollution experts believe that Delhi can learn a lot from the measures taken to control air pollution in Paris, the French capital. Delhi's steps could not lead to satisfactory results owing to its be ...More

NEW DELHI: People in Varanasi, Allahabad and Gwalior didn't breathe "good air" even a single day in 2015 among 41 million plus population cities, according to data published by the Central Pollution C ...More

Noting that India’s air pollution is higher than the standards prescribed by WHO, a cardiac specialist on Sunday said high levels of air pollution imparts a risk for heart diseases particularly in urb ...More

Time was when Delhi’s winters were to die for. But for the last few years, the city is losing that classic winter-Christmassy makeover, thanks to a spike in air pollution. With all those particulate m ...More

Maharashtra Government has formed a committee for effective implementation of Air Pollution (Prevention And Control) Act, 1981, which is expected to focus on the practise of burning the farm stubble p ...More

New Delhi: The Delhi government on Saturday said that foggy conditions have developed a perception of spiked up pollution levels. It claimed that no major variations in air pollution levels have been ...More