Pollution levels in North India and the Himalayas have risen sharply. Particulate matter pollution increased over 20 percent in the Indo-Ga...

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India faces cooking gas shortages due to global events. Villagers in Uttar Pradesh are turning to biogas, made from cow dung, as a reliable...

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The Supreme Court has reiterated the need to stop crop residue burning in Punjab and other states near Delhi to reduce pollution levels in ...

Residents of New Delhi and its suburbs endure poor air every winter as colder, heavier air traps construction dust, vehicle emissions and s...

Stubble burning is a major cause of air pollution in the northwest, especially Delhi-NCR during winters. The CII runs a crop residue manage...

In an interview to PTI recently, Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai had said the AAP government in Punjab is definitely going to bring a ...

Rai said he has written to the Union environment minister asking for an "emergency" meeting of states, including Punjab, Haryana and Uttar ...

Punjab agriculture department spokesperson said that nearly 1000 farmers from Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh would be part of this confe...

Tomar said that paddy stubble burning is mainly practiced in Indo-gangetic plains of Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh.

Air pollution due to crop residue burning in northern India is a leading risk factor of acute respiratory infections and causes an estimate...

Agricultural straw is mostly used as fodder for cattle or for making cardboard in areas where farmers harvest their crop by hand.

Punjab's agriculture department in collaboration with Petroleum Conservation Research Association today flagged off two vans to educate far...

NGT had said Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana and Delhi, which have issued notifications prohibiting agriculture crop residue burn...

Had the Delhi’s neighbouring states adhered to the guidelines of the two-year-old national policy for management of crop residue (NPMCR), t...

NGT directed state governments to take coercive and punitive action against persistent defaulters of crop residue burning.