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'How did Beijing tackle air pollution?': China's tutorial to India as Delhi chokes, offers AQI guide to improve air qualityAs Delhi's air remains hazardous, Chinese Embassy has offered a tutorial to India on how to tackle air pollution. Beijing, once famous for ...- Rs 200 crore apartments, but air still...: Gurgaon photo has the internet talking about how Delhi, Noida & other NCR areas breathe poisonA viral image of a heavily soiled air purifier filter from Gurgaon has shocked residents. The filter shows the grim reality of the city's p...
- Delhi rain after cloud seeding fails: Experts reveal why govt’s Rs 3.2-crore experiment fell flat, what it means for pollution and weatherDelhi's ambitious cloud seeding project, costing over 3 crore rupees, has failed to produce significant rainfall. Three trials were conduct...
- Environmentalists term Delhi's cloud-seeding trial short-term fixEnvironmental advocates are raising alarms over Delhi's recent cloud-seeding experiment, dismissing it as a mere stopgap solution for the c...
- More breathless plans to tackle pollution?Delhi-NCR faces its annual pollution season with new government plans. Past efforts like cloud seeding and smog towers have shown little su...
- Ready for cloud seeding, need permissions: Delhi Environment Minister as NCR gears up for winter pollutionDelhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai has addressed concerns over artificial rain and smog towers raised by BJP leaders. He explained that t...
- Delhi smog tower locked out by staff over salary delays, AAP criticises Centre's mismanagementDelhi: "Today, all powers have been given to a few officials, and now they are working as per their wish. First, they closed the smog tower...
- What is a smog tower and do they work? How India is fighting air pollutionFor over a decade, New Delhi has faced severe winter air pollution, harming residents, especially the vulnerable. Stagnant air traps toxic ...
- Delhi AQI: With PM2.5 level 132X deadlier than what's safe, some pockets turn into kill zonesIn and around Anand Vihar, hourly PM2.5 levels reached 1,985 micrograms per cubic meter during that hour. This is 33 times beyond the natio...
- Supreme Court declines to urgently hear PIL on stubble burningPetitioner Shashank Shekhar Jha sought ban on stubble burning. The solution offered, however, did not impress the CJI. "So, we ban it? So, ...
- Man mistakes water tower for UFO in smog-filled DelhiThe tweet was from a resident who mistook a water tower for a flying saucer, all due to the Delhi smog. The visibility was low due to the i...
- Delhi pollution: 'Dissatisfied' NHRC summons Punjab, Haryana, UP, Delhi chief secretariesThe air quality index (AQI) showed 426 in Delhi at 9:30 am on Friday, according to Central Pollution Control Board data. An AQI reading abo...
- Submit plans to control air pollution by Sept 15: Delhi govt to concerned departmentsThe action plan will focus on stubble management, dust pollution, vehicular emission, open burning of garbage, industrial pollution, green ...
- How 3,700 kg explosives will bring down Noida's Supertech twin towers like a house of cards in just nine secondsThe demolition of the twin towers will be carried out through the waterfall implosion technique which would bring them down within a few se...
- Experts call emergency measures announced by Arvind Kejriwal 'band-aid solution' to pollution problemTerming the rise in air pollution in Delhi-NCR an ''emergency'' situation, the Supreme Court on Saturday suggested clamping a lockdown in t...
- Smog towers 'quick fix', no scientific evidence they tackle pollution long-term, say expertsTheir comments came soon after Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal inaugurated India's first smog tower in the city's Connaught Place area...
- Local factors also contributing to air pollution & not just farm fire: SecyUnion Environment secretary RP Gupta says local factors have been contributing to the poor air quality and not just stubble burning.
- SC says govts have failed to provide clean air, water to citizens, must now compensate for pollutionA bench of justices Arun Mishra and Deepak Gupta took serious note of stubble burning in the two states and said that the life span of mill...
- India's own 'smog tower' may help combat air pollutionThe 'City Cleaner' will have the capacity to clean 32 million cubic metres of air per day, its makers said.
- As Delhi chokes, India Inc steps in to shield staff from pollutionFor the moment, many have decided to provide masks to employees, issue health advisories, install air purifiers and advise staff to stay in...
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