People are breathing air that represents a serious risk to their health.
26 Nov 2018 7:23 PM
Dealing with pollution requires an empowered institution whose performance is tied solely to controlling pollution.
25 Nov 2018 12:40 AM
Study found children with intellectual disabilities were more likely than their peers to live in areas with high outdoor air pollution.
23 Nov 2018 4:52 PM
The Central Pollution Control Board data showed overall air quality index at 282 which falls in poor category.
23 Nov 2018 12:55 AM
Such inventions are important when air pollution is having a devastating effect largely in cities of India and China.
22 Nov 2018 7:27 PM
Delhi’s air quality has deteriorated to alarming levels in the past three weeks.
21 Nov 2018 6:32 AM
In the city, the corresponding figure was 302. Health experts consider an AQI (air quality index) above 100 as unhealthy.
15 Nov 2018 12:00 AM
A majority of the respondents (33.4 per cent) said they accessed air quality information "sometimes" and 12 per cent said "never".
13 Nov 2018 8:55 PM
Pollutants irritate air sacs in the lungs causing stress response that leads to release of hormones.
12 Nov 2018 3:23 PM
For a second year the chief minister, Arvind Kejriwal, has likened Delhi to a 'gas chamber' because of the pollution.
10 Nov 2018 7:07 PM
Long-term exposure to black carbon, and other products of combustion, was associated with higher pressures in eye.
09 Nov 2018 10:16 AM
Delhi's air quality is expected to deteriorate to 'severe plus emergency' category after Diwali, SAFAR said.
07 Nov 2018 12:45 PM
Smog kills more than one million Indians every year and Delhi has worst air of any major city on planet, World Health Organization says.
05 Nov 2018 10:10 AM
The air pollution is high due to lower temperatures, wind speed and higher relative humidity.
05 Nov 2018 12:12 AM
The platform detects and reports invisible air particulate as small as PM2.5 along with noise pollution.
04 Nov 2018 3:40 PM
Pollution same as smoking 15-20 cigarettes a day, ‘severe’ deterioration from Mon likely.
04 Nov 2018 12:55 AM
The report indicated that none of the tested firecrackers were “green’’ and might prove unsafe for human health.
03 Nov 2018 1:27 AM
These hotspots include are Delhi-NCR, Sonbhadra-Singrauli, Korba-Chhattisgarh and Talcher in Odisha.
31 Oct 2018 1:46 AM
The overall Air Quality Index (AQI) at 3 pm was 401, falling in the ‘severe’ category, the highest this season.
31 Oct 2018 12:54 AM
Air quality of Delhi was recorded at 397, just three points below severe level. Seventeen areas of Delhi recorded severe air quality.
30 Oct 2018 12:41 PM