Madhya Pradesh is seeing a sharp rise in farm fires. The state recorded over a thousand incidents on November 11 alone. This surge places i...

The Centre is urging states to enhance the execution of micro-level action plans for crop residue management to mitigate the annual air qua...

Delhi-NCR's AQI has exceeded 300, with paddy harvesting in Punjab and Haryana not yet at full pace. Rising farm fires in hotspot districts ...

Delhi's Environment Minister Gopal Rai outlined a Winter Action Plan to combat air pollution, emphasizing work from home policies and aware...

Late rain spells this year delayed sowing of paddy in large parts of Punjab, also prolonging the usual harvest period. While most of the ha...

The green panel also took on record a report by the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) in the National Capital Region (NCR) and a...

Alarmed over the rise in pollution in Delhi-NCR, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) had recently asked the chief secretaries of Pu...

"The usage is very low. Just about 30-35% machines were used till the last harvest season in March-April," said a pollution board member, a...

The Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) in NCR and Adjoining Areas said according to a report based on the protocol framed by the ...

Special teams have been formed to monitor pollution hotspots. Steps will also be taken to address traffic jams on 64 identified roads to re...

Environment Minister Gopal Rai also urged the neighbouring states to spray bio-decomposer on paddy straw as an "emergency measure" to preve...

Rai chaired a high-level meeting of the Delhi pollution control committee, environment and forest departments. The plan will focus on 10 po...

The Commission on Air Quality Management (CAQM) has also expressed concern that incidents of stubble burning in Terai may hit the air quali...

The top court directed the chief secretaries of Punjab, Haryana and UP to assist Justice Lokur, enable physical surveillance of fields wher...

While urging opposition-ruled Punjab to stop stubble burning, Environment minister Prakash Javdekar said only 4% of the air pollution in th...

Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai said the AAP government wants cooperation not confrontation with other states on the issue of air poll...

He said during the meeting, which was also attended by Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), state pollution control boards, DDA and NDMC...