Judgment of the National Green Tribunal, May 27, 2025 in the matter of Sumit Saini Vs Shree Ram Steel Industries & Others. Sumit Saini, resident of village Damla, District Yamuna Nagar, Haryana had sent a letter petition dated May 14, 2022 to the NGT. The application said that around 25 …
Last year, the maximum cases of stubble burning recorded in a single day was 1,500 on May 9, 2018, across the state. This year, the maximum number of cases were recorded on May 12 at 1,291. WHILE WHEAT stubble burning has gone down by 40 per cent since last year …
Stubble burning to affect city: CPCB Delhi’s air quality is expected to deteriorate to “poor” category on Thursday and is likely to get worse on Friday, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) said on Wednesday. The rain that lashed the city on Wednesday brought down the pollution levels. The Air …
The air quality in Delhi and most NCR towns was ‘very poor’ as the concentration of particulate matter in the air increased. The impact of a long-distance dust storm, localised air pressure systems picking up dust and the westerly direction of surface winds left the city gasping for fresh air …
Gurgaon: The city authorities are gearing up to implement GRAP (graded response action plan) measures for ‘very poor’ pollution levels, after air quality continued to deteriorate and its index (AQI) got stuck in the ‘very poor’ level for the last 48 hours. On Wednesday, the city’s AQI deteriorated to 334 …
New Delhi/Ahmedabad: Senior scientists at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology have claimed that most of northwest India — including north Gujarat, Rajasthan, parts of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Delhi will be in the grip of a duststorm from Wednesday night on. Dr Gufran Beig, project director of SAFAR at …
Gurgaon: The city, which had a brief respite from the heat for the past few days due to thunderstorms, is likely to see a spike in both mercury and air pollution levels from Monday. According to the Met department, the maximum and minimum temperatures on Sunday were recorded at 40.4 …
Gurgaon: The city air quality reached ‘Good’ level for the first time this year on Thursday, as the air quality index (AQI) recorded at 50. For the last two days, the city has been witnessing unusually low levels of air pollution. The AQI was recorded at 56 (Satisfactory levels) on …
The Met department said on Wednesday that Delhi-NCR will experience more thunderstorms in the next two days with a 90 per cent probability on Thursday and 60 per cent probability on Friday. In a rare respite for the Delhi-National Capital Region (NCR), the city's air quality index (AQI) on Wednesday …
JAIPUR: Industrial hub in Alwar district, Bhiwadi was at the fifth place in the list of cities across world with the worst air pollution in 2018, according to a new study by Swiss-based company AirVisual and Greenpeace. Another city of the state, Jodhpur is at the 12 place in the …
Varanasi, from where PM Modi had won in 2014, is witnessing a rise in the number of people suffering from allergies and respiratory problems due to a "lot" of construction in the city, the report said. The air quality in Varanasi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Lok Sabha constituency, is ranked …
Thailand is preparing face masks for an upcoming regional finance minister and central bank summit after pollution shot air quality to alarming levels, an official said on Tuesday. The air quality index (AQI) in Chiang Rai, where Thailand will host the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ (ASEAN) Finance Ministers and …
Top Asian finance ministers and central bankers are due to have a summit in northern Thailand this week, and they’ll need pollution masks if they want to avoid breathing toxic air. Wildfires and crop burning are blanketing the region with smog, prompting Thailand’s junta leader Prayuth Chan-Ocha to fly to …
Nine out of 10 people breathe polluted air, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), a problem that impacts more cities in Asia than anywhere else in the world. Over the past year, the number of patients treated each day in the hospital unit where cardiologist Ade Imasanti Sapardan works …
Assert that no major respiratory problem reported in three years If the latest data compiled in the IQAir AirVisual 2018 World Air Quality Report is to be believed, the semi-urban town of Jind is much more polluted than metro cities such as Beijing, Dubai and even Mumbai. The report, which …
Following light rain and thunderstorm, the air pollution level in the national capital settled in the 'Moderate' category on Sunday. The Air Quality Index was docking at 152 at 8:00 am in the morning. The minimum and maximum temperatures were recorded at 14 and 28-degree Celsius respectively. The relative humidity …
NEW DELHI: Delhi's air improved to 'moderate' on Tuesday as the AQI clocked 140, an improvement from Monday's reading of 'poor' at 234. According to SAFAR, overall air quality over Delhi is in the 'moderate' category. "Tuesday and Wednesday will have clear skies and high day time surface winds that …
NEW DELHI: Delhi is the most polluted capital in the world, while Gurgaon is the most polluted city, revealed a Greenpeace report. According to the latest data compiled in the IQAir AirVisual 2018 World Air Quality Report and interactive world’s most polluted cities ranking, prepared in collaboration with Greenpeace Southeast …
Experts have attributed the good air quality to increase in temperature and good winds. Mumbai: Mumbai saw an instant improvement in air quality Monday, as the Air Quality Index (AQI), an indicator for pollutants in the air, recorded 89, which comes under the “satisfactory” category. Experts have attributed the good …
India’s national capital region (NCR) emerged as the most polluted region in the world in 2018, according to this new report. Gurugram is the worst affected followed by Ghaziabad, Faridabad and Noida are amongst the top six most worst-affected cities. Delhi has been ranked the most polluted capital in the …
As the city grapples with air pollution, Jyotsna Mehta, a Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) corporator from South Mumbai has moved a notice of motion to set up anti-pollution towers in the city to combat air pollution. The issue will be taken up in the general body meeting of Brihanmumbai Municipal …
