Delhi airport sees flight diversions due to rains and thunderstormsDelhi experienced significant weather changes on Tuesday. Rain and thunderstorms led to five flight diversions at the Delhi airport. Temper...
05 May, 2026, 08.52 PM IST
Delhi PAC report: Most air quality monitors meet CPCB norms; transport, pollution checks see progressMost air quality monitoring stations in Delhi meet Central Pollution Control Board guidelines. A Public Accounts Committee report noted exc...
24 Mar, 2026, 05.33 PM IST
CPCB report to NGT shows 80 pc environmental funds remain unutilisedThe Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has spent only 20% of the environment protection charge and environmental compensation collected...
26 Mar, 2024, 07.13 PM IST
NTPC, CPCB MoU to set up air quality monitoring stationsNTPC will provide financial support of Rs 80 crore for installation of 25 CAAQMS across six states and three Union Territories. The CAAQMS ...
26 Feb, 2020, 04.28 PM IST
Install assessed air quality monitoring stations within a year: NGT to states20 Nov, 2019, 06.49 PM IST
CPCB may consider vertical monitoring of air in Delhi-NCR: OfficialCPCB's air lab chief Dipankar Saha said the agency is currently focusing on strengthening its surface-level monitoring network, however, in...
25 Dec, 2017, 06.30 PM IST
Fund crunch stalls CPCB's plan to install pollution monitoring 'towers'The CPCB has drafted a proposal to mount five LIDAR equipment across the region which will essentially act as pollution monitoring towers.
24 Dec, 2017, 03.02 PM IST
Delhi-NCR to have common Air Quality Index by OctoberCPCB and the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) put out separate air quality indexes while the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) shar...
03 Sep, 2017, 11.47 AM IST
What’s ailing India’s air? The nation doesn’t know enoughCPCB has just one operational station in Mumbai, a parallel government system called SAFAR (System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting a...
23 Apr, 2017, 11.18 AM IST
Supreme Court raps CPCB, asks is it waiting for pollution related deathsAt the outset, the Solicitor General (SG) told the bench that "all laws and regulations were at place but the implementing agencies were no...
10 Nov, 2016, 07.34 PM IST
Second odd-even rule: NGT asks CPCB to monitor pollution levelA bench, headed by NGT chairperson Swatanter Kumar, also asked CPCB to record and analyse the data of before and after the fortnight-long s...
19 Apr, 2016, 03.38 PM IST
From April, government will show you air quality with coloursThe Centre will launch an air quality index in Delhi and 10 other cities that will show poor, severe, moderate or good air quality through ...
27 Mar, 2015, 11.46 AM IST
- From April, govt will show you air quality with colours
From April, you will be able to tell at a glance whether the air is clean enough to go jogging in.
27 Mar, 2015, 02.01 AM IST
- Real-time air data okay, with rider
Under attack from experts and civil society organizations for its alleged bid to “validate” the city’s air quality stats, the Centre has in...
20 Mar, 2015, 05.39 AM IST
Government to ensure 'authenticated' info on Delhi air quality to peopleThe government today said it has decided to put in place a unified air quality monitoring system to ensure that "authenticated" information...
11 Mar, 2015, 11.21 PM IST
Air quality in Delhi violates prescribed norms: CPCBWhile fine particulate matter was monitored in four of the 16 cities - Delhi, Faridabad, Gurgaon and Rohtak, in all four, the levels exceed...
27 Feb, 2015, 06.44 PM IST
CPCB is working to develop its standard and monitoring methodology, says AB Akolkar, member-secretary, CPCB'To begin with, CPCB proposes to establish a linkage between local government and air quality data for the use of AQI.'
24 Oct, 2014, 06.43 PM IST