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 …
LUCKNOW: The air pollution report released by Greenpeace India for 280 cities in the country paints a grim picture for UP with Ghaziabad being the second most polluted city in the state. The assessment based on 2016 data of Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has 15 UP cities among the …
NEW DELHI: After being slammed on several occasions for not taking effective steps to tackle the pollution crisis in the national capital region, the government came in for praise on Monday from the Supreme Court that appreciated its bold steps to make air breathable not only in Delhi but in …
NEW DELHI: Airpocalypse II, a report by environmental NGO Greenpeace India, has found that more than 47% of the population in India is still living in areas where there is no air quality monitoring. Greenpeace researchers analysed PM10 (coarse pollution particles) annual averages for 280 cities monitored by the Central …
National income is underpinned by a country's wealth--measured comprehensively to include all assets, produced capital, human capital, natural capital and net financial assets--and sustained economic growth over the long term requires investment in this broad portfolio of assets. While a macroeconomic indicator like GDP provides an important measure of economic …
GURUGRAM: The concentration of PM2.5 rose by about 20% on Sunday over Saturday, as fog continued to engulf the city. While the highest level of PM2.5 on Sunday stood at 167.98 micrograms per cubic metre (g/m³), it was 127 g/m³ on Saturday, when it had shot up by 52% over …
KOLKATA: City residents on Sunday hit the streets to spread awareness on the dangers of Kolkata's declining air quality index. The march organised by Kolkata Clean Air (KCA) — an umbrella body for several green organizations campaigning for city's better environment — witnessed hundreds of concerned citizens, including schoolgoers, university …
London has a live tracker measuring each breach of hourly levels of toxic nitrogen dioxide and is accordingly shifting clean buses onto the most polluted routes, and Delhi has tried out everything from bans to fines, but Chennai lags behind at least by a decade — in terms of mechanism …
Cities and towns across the country where the hazardous particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5) exceeds prescribed limits will now under law have to implement measures to reduce dust. Many big cities such as Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chandigarh, Lucknow, Varanasi and Kanpur, among others, fall in this category. Two months after …
CHENNAI: Though the only study on monitoring of air quality in Chennai is two years old, it still holds good. It offers important pointers about factors that affect pollution levels like ventilation coefficient readings (the product of maximum pollution mixing depth and average wind speed) and the number of air …
NEW DELHI: Even when the winter sky appears blue, parts of Delhi now have smog-like air quality. If you live in an industrial or peripheral area like Jahangirpuri or Anand Vihar, you are breathing heavily polluted air every day. Last year, Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) added many new air …
Airpocalypse-II, a Greenpeace India report , analyses PM10 annual average recorded for 280 cities which have 630 million, or 53% citizens of the country’s total population. A massive part of the population, 580 million (47%) of the population are living in areas where no air quality data is available. Out …
The inaugural Asean Cooling Summit convened for the first time a diverse group of leaders from business, government, civic society and academia to discuss solutions for sustainable cooling in Southeast Asia. Growing demand for air conditioning in the world’s emerging economies—such as those in the Southeast Asia region—could spur a …
The NGO has evaluated the data by the Central Board of Pollution Control (CPCB) and Environment Ministry. Mumbai: With the recent World Envi-ronment Performance Index report stating that India needs to provide urgent attention to its air quality crisis, experts have stated that number of cities with critical levels of …
NEW DELHI: A day after a global report put India almost at the bottom of its green ranking, the government on Wednesday said the country was doing its best on multiple fronts to protect the environment and many institutions, including the United Nations, had appreciated its efforts. However, activists claim …
Calcutta: The state government stands accused of sitting for around a year and a half on recommendations on how to curb air pollution filed by an expert committee set up by the National Green Tribunal. "The tribunal had on August 11, 2016, directed the state government to implement the recommendations …
NEW DELHI: The Centre has said that Rs 1,000 crore will be earmarked in the coming Budget to tackle the problem of stubble burning, among other things, in Delhi's neighbouring states in an effort to make the air in the capital more breathable and relieve it from the smog that …
On November 23, 2017, a high level task force for management of air pollution in Delhi and NCR, comprising experts and senior officials of various departments, was constituted by the Cabinet Secretariat. New Delhi: The Centre today told the Supreme Court that the report of a sub-committee on prevention of …
Howrah: The average air quality index (AQI) of Howrah, home to Bengal's administrative headquarters, during the week starting January 15 was found to be worse than Delhi's. Data recorded by the pollution control board's manual measuring station at the Howrah Municipal Corporation reveals that the AQI during the period from …
Babies' exposure to high levels of air pollution in the womb may lead to a type of DNA damage, typically associated with ageing, called telomere shortening, warned a study. Telomeres are the caps at the end of each strand of DNA that protect our chromosomes. Telomere shortening is the main …
Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of M. C. Mehta Vs Union of India & Others dated 25/01/2018 regarding action plan for air pollution control in Delhi and NCR. Supreme Court in the order dated 13.12.2017 had observed that it might be appropriate if the Ministry …
