"The recent spell of rain has washed out the particulates. So the city is enjoying the season's best quality of air at this moment. January...

Gufran Beig, program director of Safar (System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research), under the Earth Sciences Ministry, sai...

The wind direction is important from the point of view of stubble burning in Punjab and Haryana which falls in the northest region.

Pollution experts are readying to study odd-even impact on the levels of poisonous ozone gas and tiniest PM 1 particles in the capital’s ai...

SAFAR has eight air-quality monitoring stations in Delhi and one each in Gurgaon and Noida.

After experiencing bad air pollution on the night of December 31st, the harmful PM 2.5 sized pollutants declined by 10% between 8 am to 2 p...

The residents of Delhi can look forward to usher in the new year with a relatively better air quality that is expected to be 'moderate' to ...

According to the analysis of growth patterns of Delhi emissions between 2010 and 2014, transport sector at 38% accounts for the highest sha...

PM 2.5, the particles considered dangerous for human health jumped from 174 micro gram per cubic meter (µgm-3) to 191 (µgm-3) between Frida...

Delhi government is contemplating keeping the schools closed during the first half of January to protect school children from the health ri...

Air quality of Delhi will dip further in the next two days with an expected rise in the level of PM 2.5, whose average was 'very poor' at 2...

Beig said that apart from PM 2.5, PM 10, carbon monoxide (CO) has gone above the threshold limit at times in the capital.

Once it starts raining the index falls as it's either cloudy or raining most of the time preventing UV rays from reaching the surface.

The level of toxic ozone in the national capital was highest this year during the last two weeks when the maximum temperatures hovered abov...

Rising temperature has put Delhi at high risk of UV rays with the national capital receiving alarming levels of radiation this season, the ...

An increase of 30-40 per cent is likely in the level of PM2.5 particles where as PM10 particles may go up by 20-30 per cent being heavier a...

SAFAR will help quantitatively authenticate the impact of poor air quality on human health as well as food security as air pollution result...