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 …
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: 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 …
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 …
Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of M. C. Mehta Vs Union of India & Others dated 24/01/2018 regarding rising air pollution in Delhi NCR caused by stubble burning in Punjab, Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh. Apex Court has been informed that the report of the …
GURUGRAM: Sunday morning brought something to cheer, as pollution meters showed Gurgaon with the lowest concentration of particulate matter among NCR cities, with PM2.5 level at 90.91 micrograms per cubic metre (g/m³). Even peak PM2.5 was 102.55g/m³, compared to 135.67g/m³ on Saturday, a decline of about 24%. Air quality index …
As Rwandans usher into the new year of 2018, the ministry of environment through Rwanda Environment Management Authority (REMA) has devised new measures while strengthen the existing ones to ensure Rwandans breath clean air. REMA commissioned a new baseline air quality study that was carried out between August and December …
China has been struggling with smog for years now and to fight the same, the country has done something really un-thinkable. They have constructed an experimental air purifying tower, which is said to be the 'world's biggest air purifier' and goes to a whopping height of 330 feet, reports South …
Better technology may not end the pollution crisis. Rather, it would allow one to monitor even finer particles which would become new health threats. While currently particle effluents in air -- PM10 and PM2.5, or particles with diameter less than 10 and 2.5 micrometers -- are the cause of major …
NEW DELHI: The Fukuoka prefectural government, one of the provincial governments of Japan, will help the capital fight air pollution. Delhi government and the Fukuoka prefectural government signed an agreement on Tuesday on the establishment of friendship and cooperation. Apart from air pollution and environment, the areas of cooperation will …
NEW DELHI: A recent study has found that Delhi needs to take very aggressive steps to reduce emissions, including a complete prohibition on crop residue burning in neighboring states, to even bring down people's average PM2.5 exposure closer to the national safe standard by 2050. According to 'Burden of Disease …
Coimbatore: Many of us romanticise the city weather by calling the haze in early morning and night hours mist or fog. But, the right word for it is smog—a mix of fog and a layer of polluted air—said researchers at the the Forest College and Research Institute at Mettupalayam, who …
Upgraded system installed at two industrial units Taking the matter of deteriorated air quality of Mandi Gobindgarh seriously, the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) developed a pollution-control device for induction furnace industries of the Gobindgarh area. The air quality of the Gobindgarh area falls in the poor quality zone and …
With crop residue burning in northwest India contributing to a quarter of Delhi's air pollution during winter, a professor from Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has claimed to have developed a solution to the problem. With crop residue burning in northwest India contributing to a quarter of Delhi’s air pollution …
Vardhan said that the Union government will coordinate a joint campaign, for two weeks, with the Delhi government, the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC), Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and other municipal agencies The Central government will launch a clean air campaign for two weeks in the capital in February, …
GUWAHATI: Increasing levels of air pollution have been ringing alarm bells for long and now the city civic body is poised to prepare a draft action plan to bring it under control with the help of an international organisation. Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC)-in partnership with Clean Air Asia (CAA)-that aims …
GHAZIABAD: The UP Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) has recommended that GMC impose penalties on several building material suppliers for violating air pollution prevention norms. Penalties of Rs 50,000 each have been recommended for eight building material suppliers in a list sent to the municipal corporation on January 8 in accordance …
SRINAGAR: Pollution levels in Srinagar have crossed the limit that qualifies the city for Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) filling stations. LPG stations for the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir were proposed five years ago, but they were not put in place because the pollution levels did not rise above …
IT firm employee Sameer Gole would not travel by bus unless they look good. Till the facilities improve, he would vroom to his workplace on his two-wheeler. "I don't find the Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited (PMPML) buses appealing enough. Most of them are in a pathetic condition. Can PMPML …
