NEW DELHI: Air quality across Delhi worsened on Wednesday with the return of "smog situation" and particle pollution crossing "severe plus or emergency" mark across several locations, officials said. ...More

Several cities in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday faced dangerous levels of pollution after the spell of favourable meteorological conditions and a smattering of rain that led to an improvement in the ai ...More

New Delhi: With air quality in the National Capital Region, centred on Delhi, hitting hazardous levels in the winters and air pollution a perennial problem across northern India, sustainable farming a ...More

Punjab and Haryana reported 42,337 and 12,606 cases of crop burning respectively during the Kharif season this year, even as Australia offered to provide technological help to India to prevent stubble ...More

New Delhi: With air quality in the National Capital Region, centred on Delhi, hitting hazardous levels in the winters and air pollution a perennial problem across northern India, sustainable farming a ...More

New Delhi, Dec 19 (PTI) Greenpeace India has hailed the National Clean Air Programme, saying it's an important first step towards ensuring unpolluted air for the country's people. Environment Minis ...More

The Centre has formulated the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) to tackle increasing air pollution across the country in a comprehensive manner, Parliament was informed Monday. Union Environment Mi ...More

LUDHIANA: Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) has launched a drive to guide the industries to adopt cleaner technologies as well as re-utilization of their waste material for useful purposes. In con ...More

The Delhi government on Monday conducted a trial run of an 'Anti-Smog Gun' which sprays atomised water into the atmosphere to control air pollution. The device, which is connected to a water tank a ...More

New Delhi, Dec 18 (PTI) Over 12,000 cases of stubble burning have been reported during the Kharif season in Haryana in 2017 while satellite data has revealed that more than 42,000 such cases were repo ...More

New Delhi, Dec 18 (PTI) A task force has been set up under the chairmanship of the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister to tackle the issue of air pollution in Delhi-NCR, the government said. Mi ...More

To combat pollution in the capital, the Delhi government plans to use a machine that sprays water into the air. A similar machine is used in China, sources said. A pilot project to test the machine, ...More

At least 207 people had died in Delhi because of acute respiratory infections (ARI) in 2016, the year the city witnessed its most severe episodes of air pollution, compared to the situations in previo ...More

The Centre has formulated the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) to tackle increasing air pollution across the country in a comprehensive manner, Parliament was informed Monday. Union Environment Mi ...More

New Delhi, Dec 18 (PTI) A task force has been set up under the chairmanship of the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister to tackle the issue of air pollution in Delhi-NCR, the government said. ...More

For the first time this season and second time this year, air pollution levels in Mumbai were worse than in Delhi on Sunday. The pollutant measuring indicator — air quality index (AQI) — for Mumbai wa ...More

For decades, pollution and its harmful effects on people’s health, the environment, and the planet have been neglected both by Governments and the international development agenda. Yet, air pollution ...More

HYDERABAD: Telangana Pollution Control Board issued closure orders for eight Tyre Pyrolysis Oil industries in Sangareddy. The orders were issued following investigation that found carbon dust not only ...More

Children are one of the most vulnerable groups to the ill effects of air pollution and can have lifelong health implications. Many studies have shown that air pollution is strongly associated with res ...More

Chairing a meeting on the issue of tackling air pollution on Tuesday Dr. Harsh Vardhan reiterated that the practice of holding regular meetings with the Ministers of National Capital Region (NCR), to ...More