Stubble burning by farmers in Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Punjab leads to massive increase in air pollution across North India, and has beco...

According to an official release here, the plan for paddy crop residue management was discussed at a high-level meeting in view of the comi...

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

With pollution level in Delhi shooting up during the winter months, the issue of stubble burning often led to a blame game between the Delh...

Burning plant waste puts CO2 captured by plants back in the air, but does not add to CO2 burden, unlike burning coal.

The substitute to single-use plastic is made using crop stubble and an inexpensive and an easily available non-edible oil. It is estimated ...

As Punjab and Haryana begin burning crop stubble, skies will again darken in Delhi and adjacent areas.

Open-field burning of agricultural remains is a major source of air pollution in northern India.

Some of these dots may be forest fires but Hiren Jethva, research scientist at Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center, says fires in central Indi...

The Indicus report has presented a number of practical solutions to crop stubble burning, road and construction dust, vehicular pollution, ...

Paddy has been sown in over 29.5 lakh hectares in Punjab, including 4.5 lakh hectares under the aromatic basmati crop.

Officials estimate that crop stubble burning and the consequent air pollution would be 10-15% lower this year because of the government’s d...

Delhi last year suffered a massive spike in air pollution levels, including a severe smog episode on November 6, following the stubble burn...

PM Modi suggested that he was taking an electoral risk by making such utterances as some people might say that Modi "does not know politics"

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

The centre asked the states to use machines such as 'Happy seeder', 'Rotavator', 'zero till seed drill', 'Baler', 'Paddy straw chopper' and...

Farmers say the blades of combine harvesters don't cut the crops close to the ground, and leaves the plant stalk, usually up to two feet hi...