Residents of Delhi-NCR woke to up to another day of smog on Wednesday with Air Quality Index still in the 'hazardous' zone.
Indoor air pollution caused 1.24 lakh premature deaths in India in 2015, a report published in Lancet has said.
One out of every four premature deaths in India in 2015, or some 2.5 million, was attributed to pollution, the study found.
However, though the online indicators of the pollution monitoring stations in the city glowed red, indicating a 'very poor' air quality, but the air quality in the national capital this Diwali was better than last year, shows the recent pollution bo
According to the medical experts, most of the patients are being diagnosed with bronchitis and advance asthma.
The international permissible limit for PM2.5 is 25 micro grammes per cubic metre while for India, it is 60.
82% of water samples surveyed in New Delhi are contaminated with particles smaller than 5 millimetres in size.
Set in 2067, the futuristic film portrays the scenario when there will be a dearth of oxygen and only carbon will prevail. Giving an insight into the war-like situation that can occur, Carbon shifts our attention to the grave problem.
Arvind Kejriwal led Delhi government has directed city schools to install air purifiers so as to ensure students don't face health hazards due to air pollution.
The state-of-the-art transverse ventilation system in the newly-opened 9.2 km Chenani-Nashri tunnel on the Jammu-Srinagar highway may not be working effectively as commuters are complaining of high pollution levels, eye irritation and suffocation ins
The World Health Organisation, it its new report on Monday, said that each year, environmental pollutants lead to the death of an estimated 1.7 million children under five.
The national capital continue to battle heavy pollution as the official data suggests that the levels of PM 2.5 and PM 10, most dominant pollutants in Delhi's air, have consistently violated the prescribed standards by
The Supreme Court today approved a ‘Pollution Code’ for Delhi-NCR and asked all concerned agencies to take note of it.
The Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) will launch 10 balloon flights with the help of ISRO and the Department of Atomic Energy for various scientific studies, including pollution. The balloon flights will carry scientific
Arvind Kejriwal government on Sunday announced various emergency measures to control the pollution level which has breached the safe limit by over 17 times at places.
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