Tag: Pollution

New Delhi: Reeling under ‘very poor’ air quality with toxins since past month, the Delhi on Sunday saw pollution levels 12 to 19 times the permissible limit during morning hours. According to the data from Delhi Pollution Control Committee, the major pollutant PM2.5 or particles with diameter less than 2.5 mm, ranged between 317 to […]

New Delhi: With the air quality in Delhi and NCR getting worse ahead of winter, the city government has said it may bring back the odd-even vehicle rationing scheme in the capital. In a letter written on Wednesday, Delhi Transport Minister Kailash Gahlot directed the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) to gear up for implementation of the […]

Kolkata: FIFA on Thursday categorically said concerns over air quality will not stand in the way of Delhi hosting U-17 World Cup matches but precautions will be taken to address the issues post-Diwali — when the pollution level will be at its highest. Recently questions have been raised about Delhi’s pollution adversely affecting conduct of […]

New Delhi: The capital may not witness smoggy mornings this winter as many farmers in the neighbouring state of Punjab have stopped burning paddy stubble and are using it to generate electricity with the help of biomass machines, chairman of Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA) Bhure Lal has said. Stubble is also being used to produce […]

New Delhi: The government has decided to “revisit” the three-colour categorisation for classification of industries as per their pollution potential, Lok Sabha was told today. “The government has decided to ‘revisit’ the categorisation system for classification of industries under red, orange and green categories,” Environment minister Prakash Javadekar said while replying to a question. He […]

Cuttack: The Cuttack district administration is not leaving any stone unturned to make the historic Bali Yatra entertaining as well as memorable for visitors coming to the annual fair starting on the occasion of Kartika Purnima tomorrow. This time, the fair which is organised in memory of the rich maritime trade history of Odisha, will […]

Bhubaneswar: The much-hyped plastic ban will be enforced in six cities- Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Rourkela, Sambalpur, Berhampur and Puri- from Gandhi Jayanti tomorrow. However, resentment is brewing among traders who alleged that as such ban is being implemented by the Odisha government without much preparedness. Traders in Cuttack alleged that no alternative measures have been taken […]

New Delhi: Over 70 percent of the glacier volume in the Mount Everest region in the Himalayas could be lost in 85 years if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, a new research paper suggests. It also indicates more flood risk in the future in the Kosi river downstream from Nepal to India. The paper, […]

Rourkela: Residents of the steel city are having a harrowing time dealing with severe air pollution and traffic congestion due to tardy progress of some major road infrastructure development works. Due to slow pace of two major over-bridge projects, one near Raghunathpalli STI chhak and another near ITI chhak on the main road, connecting the […]

Angul: Residents of several villages under Kaniha police limits of the district continue to bear the brunt of high pollution levels in the area due to the incessant dust, fly ash and spillage of effluents from nearby NTPC and Jindal India Thermal Power Limited plants. Hundreds of locals took to streets and staged a dharna […]

New Delhi: Exposure to outdoor and indoor air pollution contributed to over 1.2 million deaths in India in 2017, a new global study said on Wednesday. The study titled “State of Global Air 2019” reported that the life on average of a South Asian child growing up in current high levels of air pollution will be […]

London: London is the first city in the world to implement a 24-hour, seven day a week Ultra Low Emission Zone, inside which vehicles will have to meet tough emissions standards or face a charge, media reported. Monday’s introduction of the zone, known as the ULEZ, aims to reduce toxic air pollution and protect public […]

New York: Traffic pollution caused asthma among 350,000 children in India, the second largest after China, in 2015, finds a Lancet study that analysed 194 countries. The study, published in the Lancet Planetary Health, found that the largest number of cases (760,000) of traffic pollution-related asthma were in China. It could be because China has […]

Washington: The Donald Trump administration has rolled back former President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan to limit carbon emissions and force the transition toward less polluting forms of energy. The new directive, dubbed “Accessible Clean Energy” and announced by Environment Protection Agency chief Andrew Wheeler on Wednesday, instructs the individual states to develop their own […]

Sambalpur: A day after President Ram Nath Kovind stressed on Centre’s plans to extend the ‘Namami Gange’ scheme up to Odisha, the focus has again shifted on the rampant pollution in Mahanadi, the life line of the State. At present, polluted water from several industries is being directly discharged into Mahanadi river. Similarly, untreated waste […]