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 …
The EPCA found a number of heavy-duty vehicles entering the city to be visibly polluting The Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority (EPCA) — a Supreme Court (SC)-mandated body to monitor air pollution in the city — has directed the Transport Department of the Delhi government, as well as of …
The National Green Tribunal has directed the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to collect and analyse the ambient air quality samples around the Okhla waste-to-energy plant once in four months. The National Green Tribunal has directed the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to collect and analyse the ambient air quality …
With an aim to reduce pollution levels around Diwali, the Chhattisgarh Government has imposed a ban on the use of firecrackers with high decibels during the festival. A restriction has been imposed on sale of firecrackers that produce noise above 125 dB (AI) or 145 dB for four meters in …
Senior advocate and amicus curiae Harish Salve, on Wednesday (October 11, 2017), told the Supreme Court that the union government is contradicting its own reports and stand on various air pollution issues. While reading out the affidavit filed by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MOEF&CC;) in response …
NEW DELHI: The petition seeking ban on firecrackers in NCR has been pending in the Supreme Court since 2015 but the court's approach had been inconsistent on the issue. The first order to ban its sale was modified allowing limited sale and finally the ban was re-imposed this year during …
NEW DELHI: It's around this time every year that air quality in the capital and its adjoining areas starts plunging — due to the onset of winter, coupled with crop burning in Punjab and Haryana and bursting of firecrackers on Diwali. Several experts have welcomed the Supreme Court's move to …
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court order banning sale of firecrackers in Delhi-NCR has been welcomed by doctors. Bursting crackers, they say, makes some happy but there are others — particularly children and the elderly — who have to struggle to breathe during Diwali. Many of them are either asked to …
The research paper, jointly published by the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, University of Illinois at Chicago and DAV Institute of Engineering & Technology, Jalandhar, highlights the role of traffic congestion in increased fuel use and emission levels. Increasing traffic congestion in the city has not only turned into a nightmare …
Soot trapped in the feathers of songbirds over the past 100 years is causing scientists to revise their records of air pollution. US researchers measured the black carbon found on 1,300 larks, woodpeckers and sparrows over the past century. They've produced the most complete picture to date of historic air …
A Network of partnerships established to look into and find solutions to air pollution in sub-Saharan Africa has received a £2 million funding. According to a press release from the University of Portsmouth copied to ghanabusinessnews.com, the AIR Network has received over £2 million to bring together arts and humanities …
Diwali, this year, is 11 days earlier than last year and Delhi might see a little respite since temperatures have, as of yet, not dipped as much as they had last year. With crop burning going on in full swing during harvest season, Delhi’s air quality has taken a turn …
City residents, too, appeared split on the court order. While a large section insisted that the ban would give a “cleaner future” to the children, others called the decision drastic, recalling how Diwali and bursting crackers go hand-in-hand. Even as the Supreme Court ban found favour with those concerned with …
Over the past week, images from NASA, available through its Fire Mapper, have revealed a considerable upsurge in the number of fires in not just Punjab, but also Haryana and western UP, between September 30 and October 6. A little past midnight at the Delhi-Ghaziabad border on Thursday, a police …
The Department of Environment, Science and Technology has finally decided to undertake a study on assessing the impact of environmental pollution in the industrial areas on the human health and remedial measures. The action follows an in-depth report on the pollution in Baddi-Barotiwala-Nalagarh (BBN) and the emerging cancer cases which …
While no one factor may be termed as the biggest contributor to air pollution in Delhi, the morning after Diwali last year saw a massive spike in levels of air pollutants. New Delhi: With the air quality across the National Capital Region (NCR) already reaching unhealthy levels, residents are bracing …
NEW DELHI: Only a fraction of truck drivers crossing the border to enter the city between 11pm and 6am reveal their origin and destination by showing a tax receipt issued by the transporter or the agency that is using the truck. Trucks that are not destined for Delhi should not …
With the central and state governments, and even the National Green Tribunal (NGT), coming down heavily on stubble-burning in Punjab and Haryana, farmers in both the states say they have few options available to avoid burning the crop residue. With a bumper paddy crop expected in the two agrarian states …
CHANDIGARH: The farm practice of setting wheat and paddy stubble on fire has come under sharp focus for being a key contributor to the smog in Delhi and surrounding areas, causing severe respiratory and other health problems among residents, but burning of sugarcane residue in north India has largely gone …
It will be a cacophony- and smoke-free Diwali this year+ in Delhi and in the National Capital Region (NCR) thanks to the Supreme Court (SC) which on Monday banned the sale of fireworks ahead of the annual festival on October 19. While the SC had issued a similar ban in …
Judgement of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Arjun Gopal & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 09/10/2017 regarding extensive use of fireworks including fire crackers during Diwali. The Applicant has pointed out that onset of winter itself deteriorates air quality in Delhi NCR and …
