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 …
More than 80% of people living in urban areas that monitor air pollution are exposed to air quality levels that exceed the World Health Organization (WHO) limits. While all regions of the world are affected, populations in low-income cities are the most impacted. According to the latest air quality database, …
IMPHAL: The city's drivers have decried the recent move by the state government to replace diesel auto rickshaws with battery-powered ones. During a meeting on traffic regulations last Wednesday, chief minister N Biren Singh suggested introducing e-rickshaws or battery-based vehicles for public transportation in and around the Khwairamband Bazaar area. …
KOCHI: You would be surprised to know that the number of asthma patients in Kerala are rising and many among them have no family history. The footfalls at chest and pulmonary departments in specialty hospitals have increased manifold, said pulmonologists. So, on World Asthma Day doctors have a message for …
LUCKNOW: Researchers of the respiratory medicine department at King George’s Medical University (KGMU) have identified a biomarker to detect asthma which can be a big breakthrough in making the diagnosis of obstructive airway disease easy through a simple blood test. Till now, spirometry, an effort-based procedure, is being used to …
Today is World Asthma Day. ‘Never too early, never too late. It's always the right time to address airways disease,’ is this year’s theme. May 1st is celebrated as World Asthma Day to raise the awareness about this chronic respiratory disease, which is majorly prevalent in children these days. In …
The Central government informed the Supreme Court that BS-VI fuel will be made available by April 1, 2019, in 17 out of 23 districts in the National Capital Region. Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of M. C. Mehta Vs Union of India & Others dated …
This document provides an overview of the projected effects of climate change on environmental health, and how it may impact on the health of New Zealanders. A review of the relevant local and international literature was conducted to identify environmental health risks for New Zealand linked to climate change, and …
This technical report, Progress and Opportunities of Reducing Short-lived Climate Pollutants across Latin America and the Caribbean, reviews examples of initiatives and measures that have successfully reduced emissions of black carbon, methane and some hydrofluorocarbons in Latin America and the Caribbean, the three short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) considered by the …
NEW DELHI: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) images of the past ten days show large parts of India are dotted with fires, stretching across Uttar Pradesh (UP), Madhya Pradesh (MP), Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and even some southern states. In sweltering summer, these fires are intensifying heat and causing black carbon …
PATIALA: Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) has decided to challenge the recent report prepared by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in which eight cities have been listed among worst for air pollution over a period of five years from 2010 onwards. As per report tabled in the Lok Sabha …
Enhanced Metro connectivity, lack of parking space and congested roads attributed to lesser demand for four-wheelers BENGALURU: Transport experts in the city who have been shouting from rooftops asking Bengalureans to shift to public transport should be a happy lot. Car sales figures in Bengaluru for the month of April …
CHANDIGARH: The Haryana environment ministry has taken action in 35 cases of wheat-stubble burning in the state since January 1 this year and imposed fines totaling to Rs 27,500. State environment minister Vipul Goel made public this data on Saturday and asked officers of the department to keep pollution under …
Tuticorin: Activists and environmentalists fear that pollution which has been the scourge of Tuticorin city for decades may have taken a turn for the worse. Recently, Tuticorin stood 21st in a list of 94 polluted cities in the country identified by Central Pollution Control Board based on a five-year study …
Nashik: A section of the city-based pulmonologists have blamed the declining quality of air pollution for the increase in respiratory diseases among the people living in the city. They have advocated that the concerned authorities take firm steps to improve the quality of air. According to Samir Chandratre, a doctor, …
Nashik: Once know for its salubrious climate and scenic beauty, the city now frequently has a haze in the air. Burning of waste, large number of private vehicles on the streets spewing toxic air and unkept public transport buses have triggered deterioration of the air quality in the city. Nashik …
Dehradun: Beyond Haridwar, the work to take the 900-km charcoal road deep into the Himalayas till the four holiest shrines is going on at a hysterical pace. Amid a cloud of dust, hundreds of diesel fumes emitting JCB machines and thousands of labourers are working day and night to complete …
Jaipur: Pollution level has spiked in five cities of Rajasthan and air quality has failed to meet National Air Quality Standards as per the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) report. Prominent cities from the state, including Alwar, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Kota and Udaipur, are among the 94 cities in the country …
GURUGRAM: The air quality in the city deteriorated as the PM2.5 level increased three times on Thursday as compared to Wednesday. Track the pollution level in your city The highest level of PM2.5 was recorded at 209 micrograms per cubic metre on Thursday as compared to 70 on Wednesday. Meanwhile, …
Praja has gathered the data of air quality through an Right to Information query to the Central Pollution Control Board. Mumbai: The Mumbai-based NGO Praja Foundation has claimed that the Mumbai air has been deteriorating steadily since the last two years. As per the report, the monthly average of Air …
Pollutant spewing coal-based thermal power plants, indispensable because they account for 60% of India’s electricity production, will conform to emission standards by 2022, the Centre informed the Supreme Court on Wednesday. The ministry of environment, forests and climate change gave this assurance in an affidavit before a bench of Justices …
