Delhi air quality dips as firework ban goes up in smokeDelhi experienced a surge in pollution levels on Monday morning due to residents flouting the ban on firecrackers during Diwali. The city h...
BJP leaders openly defying SC orders...: Trinamool MP writes to Delhi police on worsening air quality post-DiwaliIn a letter to Delhi Police, Trinamool Congress MP Saket Gokhale demanded information on Diwali night firecracker cases, accusing BJP MPs a...
"Need strictness with our control measures": Centre for Science and Environment on increasing pollution in Delhi Post-DiwaliDelhi-NCR's air quality has significantly deteriorated post-Diwali, falling into the 'Poor' category, according to the Central Pollution Co...
"Don't burst crackers, light diyas": Delhi Environment Minister urges people to avoid fireworks on DiwaliDelhi's Environment Minister, Gopal Rai, has urged residents not to burst firecrackers during Diwali to prevent worsening air quality. Inst...
Use of firecrackers on Diwali to be punishable offence: Delhi environment ministerAddressing a press conference in Delhi, he said production, storage and sale of firecrackers in the capital will be punishable with a fine ...
Blowing out candles on birthday cakes: Why right-wing activists are against the traditionBlowing out candles may have started for practical reasons, but it became a tradition in itself, and it is in that spirit that it seems to ...
A new humanistic perspectiveUstad Rais Khan is returning to Pakistan. The sitar maestro of the Mewat gharana had come to India to see his ailing mother, who expired so...