New Delhi: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday took stock of the situation in Tamil Nadu where severe cyclonic storm Gaja has battered coastal areas leaving 11 dead so far, and assured Chief Minister E.K. Palaniswami of all possible Central assistance. The Minister spoke with Palaniswami on phone and[Read More…]
New Delhi: As the air quality of Delhi-NCR swung between “very-poor” and “severe”, the authorities on Monday allowed day-long “toll-free” entry of over a thousand trucks, halted at Delhi border for a week, to decongest the outer region, helping in reducing pollution. Delhi and the NCR continued to suffer a[Read More…]
Mumbai: Actress Anushka Sharma has joined hands with Discovery to promote a global awareness movement to save tigers from extinction. Anushka will promote Project C.A.T: Conserving Acres for Tigers, aimed at raising awareness to preserve the habitat of the declining numbers of tigers in the wild. Discovery has collaborated with[Read More…]
New Delhi: Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) on Monday witnessed “severe” air quality with the minimum temperature recorded at 13.4 degrees Celsius, the season’s average, the Met office said. “The sky will be clear with mist in the early part of the day,” an India Meteorological Department (IMD)[Read More…]
New Delhi: Visibility dropped to 700 metres on Saturday morning as pollution levels remained severe at many places in the city beside a fog envelope, the Met said. The minimum temperature was recorded at 12 degrees Celsius, two notches below the average, while the maximum was likely to hover around[Read More…]
Patna: Three teams of experts and scientists will from November 18 begin a comprehensive drive to enumerate the endangered Gangetic dolphins along nearly 1,000 km of the river Ganga and its two major tributaries — Gandak and Ghaghra — in Bihar. Scientists expect to find out the exact number of[Read More…]
Chennai: People in Tamil Nadu celebrated Diwali with traditional fervour, starting off with special sesame oil bath, wearing new clothes and bursting firecrackers, while police registered cases against several of those who violated the cracker bursting time slot ordered by the government. Unlike previous years though the sound of the[Read More…]
Burning of paddy straw every year during October and November and wheat straw during April in Punjab and Haryana are the major contributors of air pollution in Delhi-NCR, as the smoke travels towards the national capital. In Delhi, it mixes with the fog and creates a toxic smoggy winter every[Read More…]
With pollution levels rising in both New Delhi and Mumbai, the Central Pollution Control Board is set to implement an emergency action plan to combat the situation. The emergency plan is likely to implement stringent actions against stubble burning, regular water sprinkling in open areas, ban on diesel vehicles etc.[Read More…]
Delhi has the unwanted record of being amongst the most polluted cities in the world. Several factors play a role in making Delhi’s air difficult to breathe. In November, the situation of the National Capital Region worsens with cracker, effigy and stubble burning all taking place simultaneously. As the crackers[Read More…]
By Fakir Balaji Bengaluru: Three students of Bharti Vidyapeeth College of Engineering in Delhi developed an Android app to measure the alarming pollution levels in the National Capital Region (NCR), the US-based Marconi Society, which awarded them with a prize, said on Monday. “The three students of Bharti Vidyapeeth have[Read More…]
Hyderabad: With India being among the top five countries in terms of green buildings, the country should aim to make its 4,500 cities and towns environmentally friendly to enable it to grow in a sustainable manner, Union Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri said on Thursday.[Read More…]
New Delhi: Over-exploitation of nature has wiped out about 60 percent of the wildlife and 87 percent wetlands since 1970, and ours is possibly the last generation of humans with a chance to act and reverse this trend, warns the WWF’s Living Planet Report-2018. The biannual report mapped serious threats[Read More…]
Indian mountaineer and the first Indian woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest, Bachendri Pal took the river Ganga route to travel from Haridwar to Patna. Accompanied by a 40-member team, she travelled 2,000 kilometers to reach Patna on Sunday. After participating in the Ganga Aarti on October 05,[Read More…]
New Delhi: The air quality in Delhi-NCR worsened to the “severe” level on Tuesday, as an overnight spike in pollution covered the city in a smoky haze. The city witnessed a thick layer of haze on Tuesday morning, which affected visibility. Experts warned that episodes of smog will begin in[Read More…]
The latest report by the World Health Organization(WHO) has come up with some heartbreaking revelations. According to the report, titled, ‘Air Pollution and Child Health: Prescribing Clean Air,’ 93%(1.3 billion) of the children under the age of 15 years breath polluted air which puts their health and development at an[Read More…]
New Delhi: The air quality in Delhi and NCR went further down on Monday, with experts cautioning people to abstain from any form of brisk physical activity even in indoor gymnasiums. The Air Quality Index (AQI) of Delhi was at 367 points on Monday against 366 on Sunday and in[Read More…]
“Stubble burning and landfill fire in and around Delhi continue to increase Air Pollution Level of Delhi and situation to become worst during Diwali falling on November 7,” says Shambhavi Shukla, Senior Research Associate who works with Center for Science and Environment Air pollution Team to Newsd. Air quality has[Read More…]
New Delhi: Delhi Aam Admi Party (AAP) government environment minister Imran Hussain claims that the pollution level of the national capital has improved over the last three years. He said due to the measures that have been implemented to improve air quality in Delhi which include the ban on garbage[Read More…]
New Delhi: While welcoming the Supreme Court’s verdict on imposing certain restriction on the timing of bursting firecrackers, environmentalists say there is no definition of green firecrackers, while raising scepticism if this will work this Diwali which is merely two weeks away. The SC on Tuesday refused to impose a[Read More…]
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Saturday rushed a team of rescuers after local media reported that 12 persons, including five children, lost their lives while four others were missing due to a landslide in Gajapati district. The incident occurred in Barghara village under Gangabada panchayat under Rayagada block when the[Read More…]
Cyclone Titli is bringing dangerous flooding, uprooting trees and electric posts, damaging houses, landfall, and gusty winds and is expected to do more damages in the parts of India and Bangladesh in the coming weekends. The storm rapidly strengthened to a very severe cyclonic storm on Wednesday and Thursday witnessed[Read More…]
Clean Ganga mission crusader GD Agarwal who was on fast until death dies on Thursday after 112 days on the way to Delhi for treatment in the ambulance. Agarwal has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in February this year, about his grievances and demands. Agarwal an IIT Kanpur professor[Read More…]
The Bihar government has told Patna High Court on Monday that the state is going to ban all kinds of polythene in urban areas from October 25 and in rural areas from November 25. The notifications will be issued shortly after making the requisite rules, assured the Advocate-general Lalit Kishor[Read More…]
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has launched a door-to-door garbage collection programme in Patna on Monday. Under this new version of garbage collection programme, the residents in Patna will have to hand over their household waste directly to the Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC). The process is made mandatory for all,[Read More…]
