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 …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Pollution-Free Cities, 15/12/2015. The Assistance for Abatement of Pollution, financial support for setting up of Common Effluent Treatment Plants and National Air Quality Monitoring Programme implemented in association with Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and State Pollution Control Boards (SPCBs) / Pollution Control Committees …
The overall air quality in Meghalaya is "good" except for those areas in industrial estates and where vehicular movement is at its peak, the Meghalaya State Pollution Control Board said today. The board which is monitoring the air quality in eight stations under the national air monitoring programme of the …
A ranking of the 17 cities covered by the National Air Quality Index (NAQI) was released by Greenpeace India, and reveals data to challenge the complacence of the Central and State Governments regarding cities other than Delhi: as many as fifteen of the 17 Indian cities with NAQI stations showed …
Global IT corporation IBM has announced plans to expand its Green Horizons programme which uses big data to help cities and companies make informed environmental decisions. The announcement comes after a year-long pilot project with the Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau (EPB), which saw IBM generate high-resolution air quality forecasts up …
BENGALURU: Whitefield resident Dharani M takes her seven-year-old son to a physician thrice a month. "This is because he keeps complaining of respiratory problems. The doctor says it's due to bad air; it could well be true as my son spends six hours a day on dusty stretches from home …
The decision will be implemented on those days when the air quality is severe or hazardous. With air quality in Delhi dipping to hazardous levels, Shri Ram School in Delhi issued a circular to parents on Tuesday, informing that “strenuous outdoor activity”, will now be restricted on severe or hazardous …
BEIJING - Beijing is getting tough with those who violate traffic restrictions and production suspension after the first-ever red alert for smog was issued on Monday. As of 6 p.m. on Tuesday, the traffic police had found 3,690 breaches of car use restrictions. More than 1,000 cases involving cement trucks …
During the drafting process, experts had discussed the need for issuing advisories or an alert system, but these ideas never took any concrete shape, said sources. In a recent directive, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) sought a public health advisory on pollution from the Delhi government, to warn people about …
NEW DELHI: As world leaders met in Paris on Monday to commit to a united fight against climate change, the capitals of India and China remained blanketed in heavy smog triggered by pollution. The difference was that Beijing sounded an alert for its citizens while in Delhi it was business …
The Centre for Science and Environment's (CSE) real-time air quality monitoring revealed that exposure to the average PM2.5 (fine, respirable pollution particles) between 8.30am and 11am was as high as 1,210 micrograms per cubic metre. "During this time, the real-time exposure of runners was more than four times higher than …
The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) will add 25 ambient air quality monitoring stations to its network in the State and the data updates will be available online. Data available on website “Already the public can see Chennai data on the Air Quality Index of the Ministry of Environment …
Delhiites can’t seem to catch a break when it comes to air quality. The city, which has been seeing “severe” pollution warnings since late last week, may get some relief only on Sunday when strong winds are expected to blow away the toxic mix of pollutants. Dr. Gufran Beig, the …
BENGALURU: KSPCB says air and noise pollution has decreased this Diwali. One wonders if the continuous rains in the city have played a role in decreasing pollution? Karnataka State Pollution Control Board has monitored the ambient air quality using continuous ambient air quality monitoring system at two locations and manual …
For the past three days, Delhiites have been breathing air that's almost as noxious as the air during this year's Diwali, indicating a rapid deterioration in pollution levels caused by local emissions and weather conditions. The air quality index currently is in 'very poor' category, close to the 'severe' zone …
Stations to be set up in three highly polluted cities Residents of the state will soon get real time air quality data on air pollution as the continuous ambient air quality monitoring stations (CAAQMS) are being commissioned at Golden Temple in Amritsar, Ludhiana and Mandi Gobindgarh, which are believed to …
As the Punjab and Haryana Governments struggle to control the large-scale burning of paddy straw by farmers, the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climatic Change has set up a system to generate real-time information on fire incidents using satellite data. Sources said data and images from two US space systems …
Expressing concern over the ambient air quality of Kolkata and Howrah, the Kolkata Bench of National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Wednesday named the principal secretary (home), the principal secretary (environment), K N Agarwal, a scientist of the Central Pollution Control Board, Kolkata region, and Prof S C Santra of Kalyani …
KOLKATA: The National Green Tribunal (NGT), Eastern Zone Bench, on Monday, decided to set up a technically competent committee to monitor the pollution level in Kolkata. The bench of Justice V R Kimbaonkar and Prof P C Mishra was hearing a petition on ambient air quality in the Kolkata Metropolitan …
In some areas level of harmful particles in the air were 56 times the levels considered safe by the World Health Organisation Residents of north-eastern China donned gas masks and locked themselves indoors on Sunday after their homes were enveloped by some of the worst levels of smog on record. …
High levels of air pollution engulfed the entire country Tuesday evening as a strong southeasterly wind flow caused a dust transport to Israel from Saudi Arabia and Jordan. With the dust levels expected to remain high through Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Ministry advised all sensitive population members, including those with …
