Measures like ban on construction and entry of trucks enforced under the 'severe plus' or emergency category of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) may be...
The revised rates for cars were Rs 80 per hour and Rs 400 for 24 hours, according to the SDMC order
India had in 2015 decided to leapfrog straight to Euro-VI emission norm compliant petrol and diesel from the current Euro-IV grade by April 2020. Now that...
The two chief ministers met on November 15 in Chandigarh and discussed about several issues of air pollution including crop residue burning and vehicular pollution
As Delhi chokes under a thick blanket of smog, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal meets Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar to discuss the issue and...
Supreme Court had ordered 10,000 buses 19 years ago but the city is no where near that figure of buses. The poor state of DTC clearly...
Harsh Vardhan contrasted the pollution choking large swathes of north India, including Delhi, with the 1984 gas leak in Bhopal that killed at least 25,000 people.
Focussing on the need of the better public transport in Delhi, the High Court said, pollution on account of road transport is the major source of...
The hourly-graph of the Central Control Room for Air Quality Management, which tracks the levels of PM2.5 and PM10, reflected an improvement. At 5 pm, PM2.5...
Properly collected road dust can be converted to usable sand to be used for construction, but adequate infrastructure to collect and convert road dust remains unavailable
More than 50 per cent of the challans issued between November 9 and 13 were for burning of solid waste, garbage, dry leaves, plastic and rubber,...
According to the Lancet study, outdoor air pollution was responsible for six per cent of the total disease burden in India in 2016
