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Swiss report naming Begusarai as world's most polluted city reflects 'Western bias': Bihar PCBThe Bihar State Pollution Control Board (BSPCB) criticized a Swiss organization's report naming Begusarai as the world's most polluted city...20 Mar, 2024, 03.59 PM IST- Many Bihar cities record AQI over 300, BSPCB tells DMs to enforce laws to check air pollutionState Pollution Control Board of Bihar has asked the district administrations to strictly enforce laws to check air pollution in their resp...12 Nov, 2023, 04.51 PM IST
- Many Bihar cities record AQI over 300, BSPCB tells DM to enforce laws to check air pollutionAs several cities in Bihar grapple with alarming levels of air pollution, the state pollution control board issued a directive on Sunday, u...12 Nov, 2023, 04.12 PM IST
- Air pollution affects brain, leads to anxiety, decrement of cognitive ability: DoctorsDoctors in Delhi have warned that air pollution not only affects the lungs but also other major organs such as the heart and brain. There h...05 Nov, 2023, 04.12 PM IST
- A possible new mechanism behind Earth's self cleaning process uncoveredThe researchers of the study, including one from University of California, Irvine (UCI), US, report that the presence of a strong electric ...08 Apr, 2023, 03.07 PM IST
- WHO says air pollution kills 7 million a year, toughens guidelinesUrgent action is needed to reduce exposure to air pollution, said the UN body, ranking its burden of disease on a par with smoking and unhe...22 Sep, 2021, 11.45 PM IST
- Cost of power? 218 deaths in city every year, says reportThe report, “health and economic impacts of unabated coal power generation in Delhi-NCR”, which was released during a webinar on Monday, es...23 Mar, 2021, 10.46 AM IST
- Air pollution claimed over 5 lakh lives in India, of which 97K died due to coal burning: ReportThe Lancet Countdown 2019 on health and climate change also cautioned that the impact of air pollution in India will worsen if the country ...14 Nov, 2019, 06.59 PM IST
- Residential biomass burning, open waste burning responsible for highest PM 2.5 exposure: Study11 Jan, 2018, 05.01 PM IST
- Despite ban on sale of firecrackers, air quality worsened: CPCBThe short-term study was conducted by experts entrusted by the CPCB at the time when sale of fire crackers was banned in Delhi-NCR by the t...05 Jan, 2018, 08.49 PM IST
- Bengaluru's stifling problem: 'Air has become more toxic'The main source of pollution in the city is the exponential growth in the number of vehicles . It contributes to almost 50 per cent of the ...26 Dec, 2016, 01.57 PM IST
- Pollution in Delhi during Diwali worst in 3 yearsOn Diwali night, PM 10 ranged from 448 (micrograms per cubic metre) µg/m3 to 939 µg/m3 in Delhi as against the national safe standard of 10...31 Oct, 2016, 10.37 PM IST
- Odd-even scheme: Less congestion reducing local pollution, say expertsExperts endorse that a reduction in the volume of cars was simultaneously bringing down levels of pollutants like oxides of nitrogen and su...06 Jan, 2016, 12.58 PM IST
- Cancer-causing benzene not part of air quality indexWith benzene levels found to be way higher than the safe standard in many parts of Delhi and possibly other cities, it's shocking that the ...02 Nov, 2014, 01.19 PM IST
- Act against conventional pollution, cell tower radiation, experts exhortOn World Environment Day, TOI assesses the impact of various sources of pollution on our health and surroundings05 Jun, 2013, 05.25 AM IST
- Smaller cities are new air pollution hot spots: Anumita Roychowdhury, CSEIn an interview with ET, Anumita Roychowdhury,executive director, Centre for Science & Environment (CSE) discusses the problem of air pollu...22 Nov, 2012, 05.31 PM IST
- Kolkata now India's pollution capitalKolkata has upstaged Delhi as the air pollution capital of India, accounting for more deaths due to lung cancer and heart attack than the c...28 May, 2008, 10.24 AM IST
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