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DC Edit | SC’s Timely Caution on Crop Burning

DC Edit | SC’s Timely Caution on Crop Burning

The Supreme Court’s directive to the Commission for Air Quality Management, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB)...

19 Sept 2025 12:23 AM IST

Severe air quality affects healthy people and seriously impacts those with existing diseases.

Air quality improves but still in very poor category

8 CPCB monitoring stations record severe' quality of air.

22 Oct 2017 4:23 AM IST

National Green Tribunal

NGT tells CPCB to analyse air samples near Okhla unit

The bench said, The CPCB is to collect and analyse the samples of ambient air quality once in four months and conduct...

11 Oct 2017 2:57 AM IST

Severe air quality affects healthy people and seriously impacts those with existing diseases.

Delhi's air quality enters red zone, forecast grim

A poor' AQI essentially means that people will have breathing discomfort on prolonged exposure to such air.

5 Oct 2017 2:09 AM IST

Dust billows as a worker grinds the concrete divider of an under-construction flyover as vehicle drive through smog covered New Delhi. (Photo: AFP)

Air quality again slips to very poor'

Chances of it deteriorating further in coming days less, says govt body.

21 Nov 2017 1:48 AM IST

New Delhi and several other North Indian states have been enveloped with toxic smog for over a week, forcing authorities to enforce emergency measures. (Photo: PTI)

Delhi: Air quality becomes very poor' again

The Central Pollution Control Board's (CPCB) National Air Quality Index has Delhi in the 'very poor' zone with a score...

20 Nov 2017 6:20 PM IST

The lions share of the amount - Rs 1,003 crore (till November 10) - comes from an Environment Compensation Charge (ECC) imposed by the Supreme Court in 2015 on trucks entering Delhi while the rest is made up of cess on every litre of diesel sold, in effect since 2008. (Photo: PTI/Representational)

AAP govt sitting on unused Rs 1,500 crore green fund as Delhi battles...

The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has amassed Rs 62 crore as one per cent cess from dealers selling diesel...

15 Nov 2017 5:11 PM IST

The state government announced the implementation of the odd-even car rationing scheme for five days from November 13 as part of a graded response plan to tackle the alarming level of pollution in the city. (Photo: PTI/File)

Delhi: After a day of gains, pollution back to emergency' levels

The CPCB's air quality index for the day (based on pollution levels till 5 pm) had a score of 403, as against Friday's...

12 Nov 2017 2:09 AM IST

The state government announced the implementation of the odd-even car rationing scheme for five days from November 13 as part of a graded response plan to tackle the alarming level of pollution in the city. (Photo: PTI/File)

Won't allow odd-even scheme unless proved effective: NGT raps Delhi...

NGT also asked the government to give an undertaking that it will roll out odd-even only when the particulate matter...

10 Nov 2017 4:15 PM IST

Things are so extreme that its time the Centre wakes up to a problem that is affecting the lives and lifestyle of hundreds of millions of people. (Photo: ANI)

Delhi's toxic air: Act before it's too late

Warnings have been issued about 88 per cent of premature deaths occurring in India where air pollution is escalating at...

9 Nov 2017 2:11 AM IST

The Delhi government also said that it is ready to roll out the odd-even scheme if air pollution levels persist in severe plus category for 48 hours. (Photo: ANI)

Delhi: All schools shut, construction, trucks banned

The smog, which triggered near zero visibility at many places, led to pile-ups on highways and delay in flight...

9 Nov 2017 5:43 AM IST

National Green Tribunal. (Photo: PTI)

Delhi HC, NGT take state govts to task

This becomes critical at this time. It (air quality) is already loaded (with dust), but stubble burning is the trigger.

8 Nov 2017 3:06 AM IST