India’s neighbour ranked as most polluted country in 2025. Check full listPakistan topped the global smog chart in 2025, with hazardous PM2.5 levels soaring 13 times above WHO limits. India's Loni emerged as the w...
24 Mar, 2026, 09.49 AM IST
Bengaluru Weather Update: Clear skies and moderate temperatures with air quality in checkBengaluru experiences comfortable temperatures with a moderate air quality index (AQI) on January 7, 2025. The India Meteorological Departm...
07 Jan, 2025, 08.50 AM IST
UP govt extends generator subsidy for industries in NCR districts to switch to clean fuelsThe state government is extending its generator subsidy for another five years for polluting industries in NCR districts. This aims to help...
13 Oct, 2024, 01.29 PM IST
Pollution levels in Delhi rise up; 166 AQI recorded in 24 hoursWith the monsoon season retreating, pollution levels in Delhi have risen with an average AQI of 166. Neighboring areas like Ghaziabad, Meer...
04 Oct, 2024, 10.10 AM IST
Uttar Pradesh: Noida's air quality recorded in 'poor 'categoryAccording to the System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research, Safar-India, the current PM 2.5 concentration in Noida was 5.2...
16 Oct, 2023, 09.21 AM IST
Prakash Javadekar blames Punjab stubble burning for pollution in DelhiNew Delhi, Replying to a supplementary question on the situation of air quality in Delhi, Union Minister of Environment Prakash Javadekar s...
08 Feb, 2021, 12.20 PM IST
Air quality 'very poor' in parts of Gurgaon, 'poor' in Noida, Ghaziabad, FaridabadThe worsening of the air quality comes even as the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) has been implemented in the Delhi-National Capital Re...
18 Oct, 2020, 11.34 PM IST
Ghaziabad is most polluted city in India, finds SAFARThe Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Department attributed the deterioration in air quality to the prevailing weather conditions and farm fi...
30 Oct, 2019, 10.22 AM IST
NGT directs DPCC to submit report on 5,000 illegal e-waste processing units in Delhi NCRThe tribunal directed that a copy of this order be sent to the DPCC, District Magistrates East and North East Delhi, Uttar Pradesh state po...
22 Oct, 2019, 03.09 PM IST
Considering banning industrial activities at NCR pollution hotspots when air quality is severe: EPCAIn a meeting on Friday with various oil and gas cos, EPCA ashed out at them asking the reason for not being able to switch to cleaner sourc...
07 Dec, 2018, 09.58 PM IST
Carriers of toxic air, trucks can’t enter Delhi for 3 days after DiwaliThis was done on the recommendations of a task force led by the Central Pollution Control Board, which held a meeting to review the ambient...
08 Nov, 2018, 02.52 PM IST
Industry's top choice of fuel cheap but deadlyA substantially cheaper alternative to natural gas and diesel, FO, as it is called in industrial terminology , is marginally better than bi...
20 Dec, 2016, 11.26 AM IST
NGT directs Delhi, UP govt to act against unauthorized industriesA bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar said Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) has the power to act against such i...
08 Sep, 2016, 06.12 PM IST
17 lakh tonne of e-waste generated in India in 201408 Aug, 2016, 05.27 PM IST
17 lakh tonne of e-waste generated in country in 2014: Anil Madhav DaveHe said that his Ministry has comprehensively revised e-waste (Management & handling) Rules, 2011 and notified e-Waste (Management) Rules i...
08 Aug, 2016, 05.04 PM IST
Fifth car free day observed in South DelhiAt the event, Delhi government's Environment department distributed saplings and plants among commuters.
22 Feb, 2016, 01.31 PM IST
Delhi transport has few teams, no equipmentHamstrung by a severe shortage of manpower as well as lack of infrastructure, Delhi transport department is scrambling to put together a pl...
09 Apr, 2015, 11.18 AM IST