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Poor Delhi AQI not due to stubble burning this time: Check what’s fueling toxic air in the national capitalDelhi AQI News: Open fires inside Delhi. from garbage and biomass to routine cooking and heating, now play a bigger role in its particulate...
We love third world Bharat: Delhi-NCR’s citizens choose the kind of air they want to breathe, and lifestyle they want to liveDelhi and NCR are choking under a toxic haze post-Diwali, with air quality reaching severe levels. Despite Supreme Court regulations on gre...
Air quality improves, Supreme Court permits easing of GRAP-IV in NCRThe Supreme Court eased Delhi-NCR's pollution restrictions to GRAP Stage-II. The court instructed authorities to implement GRAP Stage-III i...
From sweeping to greening, delay by Delhi proves costlyDelhi is facing scrutiny for missing crucial air quality targets despite the pollution season looming. The city lags in road dust control, ...
97% sanitation workers, 95% waster-pickers, 82% security guards exposed to air pollution: StudyA study conducted by Chintan environmental research and action group found that a significant number of sanitation workers, waste-pickers, ...
World Environment Day 2022: From AI waste sorting to zero-waste solutions, this CEO believes e-waste crisis can be tackled with prudenceE-waste, if not managed properly, could lead to numerous health hazards.
94% women construction workers never raise voice against air pollution: SurveyThe study was part of a bigger campaigned called “Help Delhi Breathe” and included mobilisation activities, and focused group discussions (...
War Crimes Watch: A devastating walk through Bucha's horrorThere is a pile of toys near the stairs to the basement. Plastic clothespins sway on an empty line under a cold, gray sky. They are all tha...
Stubble burning: Delhi govt forms a 15-member panel to ascertain impact of Pusa bio-decomposerEnvironment Minister Gopal Rai said the panel will have five MLAs, and officials from Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa, and Agr...
We are not soft nationalists, we are hardcore nationalists: Arvind KejriwalWe have come out of the Anna movement. Under the Anna movement, we put the Indian flag in the hands of every child and it became a matter o...
Urban India needs to break with the status quo for a sustainable futureFrom Delhi’s air pollution to Mumbai’s footbridge stampede, urban India needs to break with the status quo for a sustainable future.
Centre plans key measures to combat pollution in NCRThe measures include immediate steps to control dust that flies off from roadsides, open areas and construction sites, which scientists say...
Delhi air pollution: Environment ministry forms high-level committeeThe ministry also asked affected state governments to implement the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) to battle pollution.
Bengaluru pollution: Experts' view on clearing the airBengalureans breathe the air that has 3-12 times more pollutants than what is considered safe. Team ET consults experts to clear the air on...
10 things you still need to know about air pollutionThree of the five agencies that studied the impact of the odd-even trial on Delhi's air quality suggest that fewer cars on the roads had he...
Delhi: DPCC issues notices to 172 construction projectsThis is part of the pollution control body's efforts to crack down on major sources of air pollution in the national capital.
Delhi government to plant 14 lakh saplings in national capital in 2015-16Delhi government will plant as many as 14 lakh saplings across the national capital during 2015-16 in its bid to improve the green cover in...
Parliamentary panel to hear stakeholders' views on Taj Mahal's discolourationIt said that Taj is changing colour due to deposition of dust and carbon containing particles emitted in the burning of fossil fuels, bioma...
Why the candidature of Narendra Modi offers both hope & dilemma to VaranasiAs campaigning hit a crescendo, taking off in the coming week, we bring you a ringside view of who’s promising what, and whether voters are...
- Solid waste management earns Pune invite to UN coalition
The Pune Municipal Corporation has been invited to be a member of the United Nations Environment Programme's Climate and Clean Air Coalitio...