NEW DELHI: Delhi is finally on a smog-fighting mode. On Tuesday, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) banned all construction work in Delhi and NCR for the next 7 days to bring the smog situation in the ...More

New Delhi: Urging a common and comprehensive plan to tackle air pollution in Delhi and neighbouring states, the Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the centre and respective state governments to come up ...More

The air quality monitoring equipment installed in five different locations across Nashik by Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) are incapable of keeping a check on the entire city. This makes t ...More

Banning is one of the favourite instruments governments use to solve any problem, whether related to national security or air pollution. In the last few days, amidst an outrage over air quality, a ban ...More

The National Green Tribunal on Tuesday banned all construction activities in Delhi city for a week to check the alarming air pollution levels. It said stone crushers and brick kilns should not operate ...More

Patna: Patna witnessed Delhi-like smog on Tuesday, triggering a pollution alarm in the state capital, which had been ranked the sixth most polluted city in the world and third most in the country by W ...More

The Supreme Court and the principal Bench of the National Green Tribunal on Tuesday heard submissions by the Centre, Delhi and state governments on the alarming situation of air pollution in the natio ...More

The spike in air pollution after Diwali and the dipping night temperatures have resulted in more cases related to respiratory problems and viral fever. Patients who have breathing problems such as as ...More

About 1,000 mayors and municipal councillors from across the country will meet on Tuesday in Gujarat’s capital Gandhinagar to find sustainable solutions to rising air pollution and traffic congestion ...More

The Supreme Court today asked the Centre to devise a common minimum programme to deal with pollution in Delhi and National Capital Region in the next 48 hours. The apex court has asked the Centre to ...More

New Delhi: Observing that the air pollution in the capital is a “public health emergency as the limits have gone beyond the human permissible levels”, the Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Centre ...More

Chinese authorities have announced a new environmental police squad to combat pollution in Beijing that will crackdown on activities like open-air barbecues, garbage incineration and biomass burning, ...More

The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted the central government time till Thursday to come out with an action plan to curb the alarming level of air pollution in the national capital as it was told that t ...More

The National Green Tribunal pulled up the governments of Delhi, Punjab and Haryana over unprecedented levels of air pollution, enquiring about the steps taken to curb a thick blanket of smog that has ...More

The National Green Tribunal today came down heavily on Delhi and other neighbouring states for not taking steps to control stubble burning and directed them to give complete mechanism on implementatio ...More

LUCKNOW: The effect of smog is apparent in city's parks with morning and evening walkers giving their health routine a skip. People said pollution was causing breathing problems. For the second day ...More

Tells Maharashtra CM to protect Mumbai from water, air pollution As the jury is out on the alarming levels of pollution in Delhi, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Monday blamed oil companies for causi ...More

MUMBAI: NGO Awaaz Foundation on Monday said noise levels in the city during Diwali this year was 10 decibels less than previous years. It thanked the Mumbaikars, Mumbai police and the traffic police i ...More

The Delhi government on Monday listed out measures which will be implemented to tackle the worsening air quality in the city. According to the government, a complete ban will be imposed in the city on ...More

LUCKOW: Smog conditions intensified as air pollution in the city rose 5-6 times above safe limits, close to the alarming levels in Delhi, on Monday. Live air quality monitoring station of the Central ...More