NEW DELHI: The union health ministry will soon be releasing a "New Delhi declaration on mitigating effects of air pollution" which will give time bound action points to other ministries to address var ...More

Industrial town of Punjab—Ludhiana—was the noisiest and its air most polluted this Diwali in the state even as the pollutants in most cities, including Ludhiana, were lower as compared to the festival ...More

Jamshedpur, Nov. 01: An alarming rise in air and noise pollution level in the city has been recorded following the bursting of fire crackers during the Diwali celebrations. Officials of the regiona ...More

Chandigarh: Air pollution on Diwali was worse than last two years in the city as the safe level was breached at different sites, according to data released by the UT administration. Chandigarh Poll ...More

NEW DELHI: Faced with a shocking jump in the level of air pollution in the capital, the Centre has summoned top officials of Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan on Friday to review the ...More

Bengaluru: Although, the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) is yet to consolidate the data on pollution levels during this year’s Diwali, its chairman Lakshman said that there was high aw ...More

On Tuesday, Delhi was breathing “severely polluted air” yet again. Air quality in many areas in the Capital has remained dangerously low over the last week. Though Diwali has passed, pollution hasn’t. ...More

Five designs and technical studies for targeted solutions and induced-draft air treatment systems at major traffic intersections in the city are a part of six immediate measures to be implemented by t ...More

NEW DELHI: As air pollution in the city rose to unprecedented levels, Delhi government today announced a raft of measures including vacuum cleaning and sprinkling of water on arterial roads, cutting d ...More

BAREILLY: Green activists' anti-firecracker campaign went up in smoke on Diwali night with the city recording nearly eight times the normal amount (100 g/m3) of respirable suspended particulate matter ...More

NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 1: As air pollution in the city rose to unprecedented levels, the Delhi government today announced a raft of measures, including vacuum cleaning and sprinkling of water on arter ...More

After Diwali festivities led to a toxic cloud of chemicals and smoke enveloping Delhi, the government announced a raft of measures on Tuesday. Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said vacuum cleanin ...More

Worried over high level of air pollution due to bursting of crackers coupled with stagnant wind movement, the Delhi Government has decided to clean dust on roads through vacuum cleaning and sprinkling ...More

Residents of New Delhi woke up to a blanket of smog on Monday as air quality deteriorated sharply overnight in India's capital, triggering warnings that even healthy people were at risk of respiratory ...More

New Delhi: Air pollution during this Diwali was worse than the previous two years with even the 24-hour average of respirable pollutants breaching the safe standards by multiple times, as per data rel ...More

One in seven children across the world lives in areas with most toxic levels of indoor air pollution, a new UNICEF study has found. In India, which has a huge proportion of these 300 million children, ...More

NEW DELHI: A report by the United Nations Children's agency, Unicef, released on Monday has confirmed the worst fears of people living in polluted areas — that bad air is contributing to death of many ...More

The morning after Diwali in Delhi was all smog with residents left with no option but to breath the poisonous air with pollution levels in many areas reaching levels 40 times over the safe limits. Del ...More

New Delhi: Air pollution during this Diwali was worse than the previous two years with even the 24-hour average of respirable pollutants breaching the safe standards by multiple times, as per data rel ...More

Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia called a high-level meeting at 1pm on Tuesday to tackle with spiking air pollution, which has touched alarming levels in the past two days. In a tweet, Siso ...More