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...
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
The smog and pollutant levels will drop in Delhi because of the wind speed generated by the gathering weather system in the state, says Sonam Lotus,...
As Delhi breathes toxic air and government takes measures to combat the problem of air pollution, a lot remains to be done
Homeless and slum dwellers are exposed to construction dust, vehicle exhaust on a daily basis and therefore they are the worst sufferers of Delhi’s toxic air
A research by the University of Maryland and NASA last week blames severe haze as a major public health concern in China and India
After the blame game, political leaders call for action and Centre to intervene and help coordinate states to coordinate and tackle the problem of air pollution...
Union Agriculture Ministry directed the states to use the funds of ₹4,000 per hectare available under the Sub-Mission on Agricultural Mechanisation to provide straw management machinery...