Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai will hold a high-level meeting on Monday to review the air pollution situation in the capital, officials said.
The minister will take stock of the situation with ...
The Supreme Court on Wednesday chided the Centre, Delhi and the NCR states for resorting to ad hoc measures to tackle pollution and asked bureaucrats to work out a permanent solution by interacting wi...
The Centre on Wednesday opposed the Supreme Court’s suggestion that Union government employees work from home to combat the alarming pollution surge in Delhi and the National Capital Region.
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The layer of eye-stinging smog lingering over Delhi-NCR thickened on Friday, giving an orange tint to the sun and lowering visibility to 200 metres at several places in the region reeling under hazard...
A layer of smog shrouded Delhi-NCR on Thursday and partially blotted out the sun on Chhath Puja as the air quality slipped back into the severe zone with unfavourable meteorological conditions aiding ...
The Uttar Pradesh government has asked the state’s western districts, in and around the National Capital Region, to suspend all construction activities between November 1 and 10 and shut for a week ...
The air quality in Delhi on Thursday slipped into the severe category with the air quality index being recorded at 460.The Dwarka Sector 8 air monitoring centre recorded an air quality index of 496 an...
The hazy shade of Indian winters, a manifestation of the toxicity in the air during the cold season, should be reason enough for readers to turn the pages of Siddharth Singh’s book. Here, Singh is n...
Over 70 per cent of parents in Delhi and the National Capital Region say there should be a scheduled 'smog break' in schools from November 1-20 every year, according to a new survey.The survey with ne...
Last month, a Supreme Court order set rules last month regarding the lighting of firecrackers, saying 'green crackers' with low emission levels were permitted, and could be burst only between 8 pm and...