The tribunal heard a petition claiming the river was 'highly polluted' and there is an absence of required number of sewage treatment plants...

The dust particles create a haze above the stretch which is broken and they can travel far along with the wind...

Pollution had surged by 60 per cent in Kolkata last week with very poor air quality recorded...

Ghusuri in Howrah and six out of seven monitoring stations in Kolkata record alarming air quality between Sunday night and Monday morning ...

Move aimed at popularising green commute, says NKDA official...

Programme a joint initiative of Vinisha, an NGO that works for the environment, and Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan...

Apart from the KMC, the agencies include Metro Railway, Hidco, Kolkata police and Rajpur-Sonarpur Municipality...

The sub-index value of PM2.5, fine particulates that can cause a host of critical ailments, shot up to 406 around 2am on November 24...

GRAP is a set of emergency measures that are imposed to prevent deterioration of air quality once it reaches a certain threshold...

Implementing integrated solutions to address critical global problems, namely, plastic pollution and climate change, would help us achieve net-zero goals...