A performance-based grant of Rs 19,612 crore has been allocated to 131 cities for air quality improvement from 2019-20 to 2025-26. So far, ...

Begusarai, a city in Bihar, has emerged as the most polluted metropolitan area globally in 2023. Moreover, India is the unfortunate host to...

"The winter of 2022-23 coincided with the last phase of an unusual triple-dip La Nina event, the first in the 21st century. This phenomenon...

India's National Clean Air Programme (NCAP), launched in 2019, aims to reduce particulate matter pollution (PM2.5) by 20-30% from 2017 leve...

There are 50 air quality monitoring stations (both manual and real-time) in Delhi, 11 in Gurugram, 8 in Ghaziabad, 12 in Gautam Buddh Nagar...

India has been proactive domestically through multiple policy levers like the ban of 12 single-use plastic items, and robust extended produ...

The tribunal's direction came while disposing of a plea filed by James Jose, Managing Director, CGR Hallmarkers Pvt. Ltd, seeking regulator...

According to the index, Lahore reported a particulate matter (PM) rating of 423. Pakistan's financial capital Karachi ranked at 7 on the AQ...

Solid waste is being burnt in open on the roads at Agra cantonment railway station, heaps of uncleared garbage lying unattended and chocked...

The CPCB has drafted a proposal to mount five LIDAR equipment across the region which will essentially act as pollution monitoring towers.

The tribunal granted four weeks to them to file applications for consent to operate and asked the pollution board to deal them expeditiousl...

In September 2015, Volkswagen admitted to having installed "defeat devices" in 11 million diesel cars sold worldwide between 2008 and 2015,...

The agency said almost a million children under-5 die from pneumonia per year - and about half of those cases are directly linked with air ...

The Ministry has notified the 'Regulation of Polychlorinated Biphenyls Order, 2016' which also bans import of equipment containing PCBs.

In a boost to Bhutan's rich biodiversity, 21 new species of amphibians, insects, flowering and non-flowering plants have been discovered in...