Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Air pollution, 15/12/2017. Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) is monitoring ambient air quality in 691 locations covering 303 cities/towns in 29 States and 6 Union Territories across the country under National Air Quality Monitoring Programme (NAMP). As per the data, the number of cities …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on States Affected by Air Pollution, 15/12/2017. The Government has notified National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) which lays the norms for air pollutants in the Country. The NAAQS have been developed taking into account global standards. Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) monitors the ambient …
BENGALURU: Next time you get caught with a defective silencer in your bike/car, you will not just end up paying but also have to be a mute spectator when the bulldozers will crush your silencer. In a first of its kind initiative, Adugodi traffic police have crushed 82 seized defective …
CHANDIGARH: Burning of paddy stubble in Punjab and Haryana did not contribute to the alarmingly high levels of air pollution in Delhi on November 10 and onward. This has been established scientifically for the first time by the National Environmental Engineering Institute (NEERI) at Nagpur. This initial finding is likely …
Air quality issues should get sorted once BS VI is rolled-out and mechanisms for real-world pollution monitoring and enforcement is in place. In fact, with the advent of these technologies, the air coming out of the tailpipe will be cleaner than the air we normally breathe within our homes in …
According to Baijal's office, the plans were divided into six categories to tackle different sources of air pollution: vehicular pollution, road dust and fugitive emissions, greening of central verges, diesel-generator sets and industries and burning of waste. In order to combat air pollution in Delhi, Lt. Gov. Anil Baijal today …
The Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority (EPCA) has asked the Delhi government to stop the use of non-permitted fuels in industrial areas and for regular patrolling of these sites to bring down fuel emissions to improve air quality in Delhi-NCR. The industries, located near Anand Vihar Inter-State Bus Terminal …
L-G discusses traffic management, pollution in east Delhi areas Traffic management and pollution at east Delhi’s Anand Vihar and Kaushambi, where terminals for buses, the Delhi Metro and railways converge, were discussed at a meeting chaired by Lieutenant-Governor Anil Baijal at the Raj Niwas on Thursday. Convened by the Environment …
A linked editorial advocated not just policy change to tackle polluting vehicles, given the evidence of its effect on unborn babies and young children, but also personal protection, including, but not limited to, masks. Pregnant women who are exposed to road traffic pollution are more likely to deliver babies with …
The Maharashtra Transport department has planned to crack a whip on pressure and shrill horns fitted in commercial vehicles as part of its ‘No Honking’ campaign. Speaking to DNA, Principal Secretary, Transport department, Manoj Saunik said that most of these commercial vehicles including trucks, buses, and others visit the Regional …
On January 18 this year, an RTI applicant Deepak Juneja had sought from the transport department information about the number of PUC certificates issued for different class of vehicles in Delhi. Pollution may be at critically high levels in the city but the Delhi government’s transport department does not have …
The government has come out with a draft notification to amend Central Motor Vehicles Rules to prevent registration of BS-IV compliant automobiles built before April 1, 2020 beyond June 30, 2020. In a major step to curb vehicular pollution, the government last year decided that the country will leapfrog directly …
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany’s federal government on Tuesday released 1 billion euros ($1.19 billion) of promised funding to help municipalities tackle diesel pollution but environmentalists doubt the move will help avert bans of polluting vehicles. Pressure is growing on Germany to enforce Clean Air limits introduced in the European Union …
The additional cost incurred for either completely scrapping the engine-run vehicles or replacing engines can now be saved, the team said. Black soot and harmful gases emitted from the exhaust of public buses and heavy vehicles operating on diesel engines seem set to reduce substantially, thereby not just reducing the …
It is learnt that the EPCA is now mulling over a proposal to make the enforcement mechanism automatic so that such situations can be avoided The Environment Pollution (Prevention & Control) Authority (EPCA) is soon planning to devise a system under which measures like odd-even will kick in automatically when …
It also suggested additional emergency measures such as “stickers indicating fuel and age on all vehicles through PUC”, so that categories of vehicles can be prohibited based on threat level. While noting that crop burning was a “contributory factor” to the capital’s air pollution and “not the only problem”, the …
NGT directs govt to come up with solutions to stop stubble burning. New Delhi: As sale of air purifiers in Delhi have shot up in recent times, especially in the national capital, due to severe levels of air pollution and the toxic smog that had shrouded the city for seven …
PATNA: The state transport department has decided to form a three-member team to inspect the vehicle pollution check centres and verify if they have proper infrastructure to test vehicles before granting them 'pollution under control' (PuC) certificates. The transport department move comes close on the heels of this newspaper reporting …
Refineries in UP, Madhya Pradesh and Punjab to supply fuel; move aimed at combating air pollution Ultra-clean Euro-VI grade petrol and diesel, sourced from refineries in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Punjab, will be supplied in the Capital from next April in a bid to combat alarming levels of air …
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will increase the tax paid by those driving new diesel cars that do not meet the latest emissions standards from next year, in the latest blow to the hard-pressed sector. Britain's Finance Secretary Philip Hammond leaves Downing Street on his way to deliver his budget statement …
