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Deepika Padukone flags Mumbai air pollution, mayor says BMC reviewing rising AQI concernsActor Deepika Padukone highlighted Mumbai's poor air quality. This sparked a debate, leading Mayor Ritu Tawde to assure citizens the civic ...
Smog then floods: Pakistani families 'can't catch a break'Heavy monsoon rains caused severe flooding in Pakistan's Punjab region. Ghulam Bano, a resident of Shahdara, faces displacement after movin...
Delhi pollution: AAP govt asks Centre for artificial rains in national capital to combat smogDelhi Minister Gopal Rai asked the central government to make it rain artificially to clean the city's bad air. He said the environment min...
Delhi shifts grade 10, 12 classes online as pollution levels choke capitalDue to hazardous smog levels in Delhi, physical classes for Class 10 and 12 students have been suspended, transitioning all studies online....
Pakistani province declares health emergency due to smog and locks down two citiesPunjab, a province in Pakistan, declared a health emergency due to severe smog, which has affected nearly 2 million people. The government ...
AQI in Delhi drops to 226; residents face breathing issuesA thin layer of smog covered New Delhi, with the Air Quality Index falling to 226, labeled 'Poor.' The highest AQI of 334 was recorded at A...
Delhi Pollution: Air quality 'severe' for third straight day; Noida records 529 AQI, Gurugram at 478Also, areas in the national capital region (NCR) area - Noida and Gurugram at 7 am this morning recorded an AQI of 529 and 478 respectively...
India’s deadly air pollution keeps getting worseMore than 90% of India’s population lives in areas where air quality is below World Health Organization standards, with coal-fired power pl...
Smog chokes Delhi NCR again, air quality 'severe' for 4th consecutive dayDue to influence of a western disturbance, Delhi NCR is seeing a dense cloud cover and a dip in wind speed, which has aggravated the situat...
Companies go the extra mile to save its employees from toxic airMany companies in the Delhi NCR region are installing air purifiers, distributing masks and allowing employees to work from home.
Smog continues to choke Delhi for fourth dayThe department said there was a possibility of light winds later in the day, which may clear the smog choking the national capital.
China extends orange alert as thick smog chokes BeijingThe orange alert, the second highest after red which was originally effective from Friday to yesterday, will not be lifted until Wednesday ...
China grounds flights as thick smog continues to chokeThe smog descended over Beijing and 40 other cities on October 17 and continued to get worse despite red alerts imposing odd-even rule for ...
Delhi facing worst smog in 17 years: Centre for Science and EnvironmentAccording to air quality monitoring network SAFAR, PM2.5 levels are in severe category and are expected to remain such for more than three ...
China on yellow alert as heavy pollution chokes several citiesChina on Saturday issued a yellow alert for smog as the pollution choked most regions in the country's north with no signs of abating. The ...
China on yellow alert as heavy pollution chokes several citiesChina today issued a yellow alert for smog as the pollution choked most regions in the country's north with no signs of abating.
Choking smog: If Delhi was Beijing, it would shut 29 of 30 daysWhen air pollution hits a certain danger mark in Beijing, the government issues a red alert that automatically puts curbs on factories, con...
Beijing's notoriously poor air quality improving: officialsPublic complaints about Beijing's smog doubled to 12,599 in the first five months of the year compared to last year.
China declares war on pollution with $35 billion fundChina on Wednesday declared a war against chronic pollution choking the booming nation, allocating about $35 billion for environmental prot...
China declares war on pollution with $35 billion fundLi allocated 210.909 billion yuan ($35 billion) for energy conservation and environmental protection this year, a 7.1 per cent increase com...