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Air pollution: Car now status symbol, people saving money to buy 4-wheelers, says CJI Surya KantChief Justice of India Surya Kant observed that cars have become status symbols, leading people to abandon bicycles. He suggested that the ...
Delhi air pollution hearing: Supreme Court criticises CAQM, orders expert meet on pollution crisisThe Supreme Court has expressed dissatisfaction with the air quality regulator's performance regarding Delhi-NCR pollution. The court has o...
Put your money where your mouth isIndia's pollution crisis is worsening, yet the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has spent a minuscule 0.2% of collected environmental...
Delhi's 'very poor' AQI stagnates at 398 on Sunday morningNeighbouring Ghaziabad (275), Gurugram (242), Greater Noida (232), Noida (252) and Faridabad (318) also recorded very poor air quality. An ...
Air pollution in Delhi did not drop by 25 % as claimed by AAP govt: GreenpeaceIn government advertisements, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has been claiming that levels of PM 2.5 (or particulate matters equal to small...
Coal-based power makes India top global SO2 emitter: GreenpeaceIt is estimated that SO2 commonly makes up more than 10% of the deadly fine particles in India and China.
Environment Ministry gets Rs 3,111 crore in budget -- a 20 per cent increaseIn the last fiscal, the ministry was allocated Rs 2,586.67 crore.
Govt to launch air pollution prediction system for Delhi on Oct 15
Clarify stand on Ganga encroachments, NGT tells Centre and othersThe tribunal also asked them to specify their view on minimum environmental flow of the river and extraction of groundwater to restore Gang...
Auto dealers will have to pay the green cess on diesel SUVs' registration in NCRDealers selling such vehicles will have to deposit 1% ex-showroom price as EPC in any branch of the Union Bank of India (UBI) in Delhi-Nati...
- CPCB opens account for payment of green cess on big diesel vehicles
Besides Ganga, 254 polluted river stretches too require attentionThe Central Pollution Control Board had last year identified polluted river stretches and found the number of such stretches had increased ...
National Green Tribunal orders joint inspection into polluting units in G NoidaThe NGT has directed CPCB and Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) to conduct joint inspection of polluting industries in Greater ...
- Study sounds SOS on river pollution
At a time when the country's national river Ganga has caught the attention of policymakers, a new report of India's key pollution watchdog ...
- 'Give Ganga plan in 15 days or face action'
At a time when the country's national river Ganga has caught the attention of policymakers, a new report of India's key pollution watchdog ...
Panel to find ways to gauge pollution levelThe Central Pollution Control Board — country’s main pollution watchdog — has set up a panel to develop easy to understand "standard operat...
- Delhi, Kolkata have worst air quality in India: Report
Air quality data of Central Pollution Control Board for 2010 shows that Kolkata and Delhi are among the worst affected cities in terms of a...
- Euro-III fuel to be phased out in 7 cities from March 31
7 cities where fuel of Euro-III specifications will be phased out are: Puducherry, Mathura, Vapi, Jamnagar, Ankaleshwar, Hissar and Bharatp...
- Jayanthi Natrajan writes to MoD to tackle oil spills
Natarajan has requested defence minister A K Antony to hold an inter-ministerial meeting along with the shipping ministry to develop a bett...
- Police, municipality join hands to fight pollution
Kolkata police and the municipality have joined hands to fight alarming levels of pollution in the city which has replaced Delhi as the air...