India's cleanest cities struggle with pollution despite top rankingsIndore, India's cleanest city for 7 years, saw a 21% increase in PM10 pollution levels in 2023-24 compared to 2017-18, joining 30 other cit...
01 Dec, 2024, 05.10 PM IST
Clean, good news is in the air!The environment ministry's latest data shows that 95 out of 131 cities under the National Clean Air Programme have improved air quality. No...
09 Sep, 2024, 10.52 PM IST
Haryana has 15 cities among India's 100 most polluted: Gurgaon, Faridabad tops the listFifteen out of 24 cities in Haryana ranked among India's 100 most polluted cities based on PM2.5 levels in the first half of 2024. Faridaba...
05 Sep, 2024, 04.38 PM IST
Set up panel to tackle air pollution in Indo-Gangetic plains: UP to Centre02 Sep, 2024, 07.46 PM IST
India registered 9.3 lakh cancer deaths, second highest in Asia: Lancet StudyA study published in The Lancet Regional Health Southeast Asia journal found that India, along with China and Japan, were the three leading...
03 Jan, 2024, 01.37 PM IST
Study finds outdoor air pollution accounts for over 2 million deaths in India annuallyThe research indicates that worldwide, air pollution resulting from fossil fuels in industry, power generation, and transportation causes 5...
01 Dec, 2023, 05.34 PM IST
Outdoor air pollution accounts for over 2 million deaths annually in India: BMJ studyOutdoor air pollution from all sources accounts for 2.18 million deaths per year in India, second only to China, according to a modelling s...
30 Nov, 2023, 12.37 PM IST
NGT directs granite company in Haryana to pay Rs 3 crore interim compensation for violating green normsThe bench said the lease in favour of the project proponent (PP) or the company commenced in October 2017 and environmental clearance (EC) ...
15 Nov, 2022, 06.27 PM IST
Barely any difference in PM 2.5 trends among cities covered in NCAP and those outside it: ReportThe NCAP is a national-level strategy aimed at a 20 per cent to 30 per cent reduction in PM2.5 and PM10 concentration by 2024, with 2017 as...
06 Sep, 2022, 05.25 PM IST
Pollution led to over 23.5 lakh premature deaths in India in 2019, highest in world: Lancet StudyThe majority of air pollution related deaths -- 9.8 lakh -- in India were caused by ambient PM2.5 pollution -- tiny pollution particles in ...
18 May, 2022, 12.58 PM IST
Deaths linked to PM2.5 pollution in India increased by 2.5 times in 2 decades: ReportThe report said 4,76,000 infants died globally in their first month of life from health effects associated with air pollution exposure in 2...
01 Mar, 2022, 04.19 PM IST
Environment Day: Climate change, toxic air remain issues of deep concern for India, say expertsExperts said while air pollution was a leading cause of asthma, stroke, lung cancer and premature deaths, climate change has a sizable impa...
05 Jun, 2021, 07.06 PM IST
Gauri Khan reaffirmed that this would be the most popular lighting trend in 2020While in 2019, the trends supported going minimalist, there is one trend that came in the spotlight as far as lighting are concerned. LED c...
03 Jan, 2020, 04.36 PM IST
Noise pollution rises in two areas marked as ‘Silence Zones’ in BengaluruIndira Gandhi Institute of Child Health (Nimhans) and RVCE, Mysuru Road have been reported as sensitive areas.
20 Jun, 2019, 11.52 AM IST
NGT restores Graphite India closure orderGraphite India had received clearances to resume operations in its Bengaluru plant from December 2018 after the company paid Rs 50 lakh to ...
01 Feb, 2019, 11.49 AM IST
India’s handicrafts exports should tap new markets: Ajay TamtaSpeaking at a press conference to highlight India as a partner country for Ambiente 2019 organised by Messe Frankfurt, Tamta said such exhi...
29 Aug, 2018, 04.53 PM IST
India to be the partner country for Ambiente 2019, 2nd Asian nation after JapanIndia takes over the baton from the Netherlands which was the partner country at the Frankfurt Messe this year.
20 Feb, 2018, 01.31 PM IST