- Delhi’s Air Quality Index is at 500+ (hazardous stage). - The level of particulate matter is at 955 umg/m3 which is 16 times higher than the permissible limit. - Delhi is facing the worst smog in ...More

Children at most risk of contracting conjunctivitis Avoid morning walks and limit outdoor games for children, is the advice doctors are giving to Delhiites battling extremely dangerous levels of air ...More

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal admitted on Friday that air pollution in the city had spiked but appeared reluctant to clamp a ban on firecrackers seen as responsible for smog and haze blanketing ...More

NEW DELHI: The toxic smog choking the capital for the past four days worsened early Thursday morning, with visibility reducing to the second-lowest recorded in at least 10 years for November.One monit ...More

NEW DELHI: Faced with unrelenting pollution, Delhi has agreed to consider giving funds to neighbouring states to incentivize them to reduce straw burning. The practice of stubble burning is seen as a ...More

New Delhi: A meeting, chaired by the Ministry of Environment and Forest (MOEF) Secretary AN Jha, of all environment secretaries of the four states of the National Capital Region (NCR) was convened on ...More

NEW DELHI: With the air in NCR rendered unbreathable, the Centre on Friday stepped into action, directing five states “to take immediate measures to control air pollution”. The environment ministr ...More

A drop in city night temperature, which was 4 degrees Celsius below normal on Friday morning, increased pollution levels in Mumbai. While the pollutant measuring indicator – air quality index (AQI) ...More

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Friday asked the Central Pollution Control Board and the Delhi Pollution Control Committee to take steps to control and curb the pollution. The Tribunal also summ ...More

GURGAON: Rising air pollution in Gurgaon is not only affecting human health, but it's also having a huge impact on the birds too. And this year, the city's bird hospitals and animal welfare organisati ...More

After private schools, the MCD schools in Delhi have also decided to close down on Saturday as thick smog continues to cover the national capital. On Thursday, private schools in Delhi-NCR have inform ...More

Beijing managed to remove 3.4 lakh ageing vehicles — that are over 10-year-old — from its road this year by providing monetary incentives to their owners to replace them with new ones. The move result ...More

Nearly 1,700 primary schools under the three municipal corporations in Delhi have been ordered to shut down on Saturday due to high air pollution levels in Delhi, an official said on Friday. About ...More

In a sign that the Centre’s directions on tackling Delhi’s hazardous air-quality have mostly remained on paper, the union environment ministry on Friday issued largely the same set of directions that ...More

The hazardous smog engulfing the national capital since Diwali lingered on Friday, as the overall air quality oscillated between ‘severe’ and ‘very poor’ categories. The 24-hour-average of PM 2.5 was ...More

Union urban development minister M Venkaiah Naidu told the New Delhi Municipal Council on Wednesday to convert Connaught Place and Khan Market into ‘no vehicle zones’ to curb the city’s air pollution ...More

Nov. 4 (ANI): The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Friday will hear a case related to the deteriorating quality of air in Delhi which has been designated as being in the "severe" category post Diwal ...More

While the city is reeling under heavy pollution level, some schools in the Capital have either shut down till Monday or have suspended morning assembly and sports day celebrations. Shri Ram Schools in ...More

The AamAadmi Party (AAP) government is open to the implementation of “artificial emergency pollution control measures” practised around the world if air pollution in the Capital continues to spiral do ...More

The air you breathed in Gurgaon on Thursday was the foulest in the country as an overcast sky and absence of strong winds ensured thick smog continued to hang over the city. Gurgaon's AQI was at a ...More