Air quality index (AQI) has been deteriorating rapidly across cities in our country. Raising awareness and pointing out the highly polluted and toxic air in Lucknow city, a white model of lungs was installed at the Jhandi Park near Nagar Nigam office on Thursday which turned black within 24 hours. Ekta[Read More…]
Tag: Pollution
How to look after skin in pollution
The pollution from crackers can make your skin dry, to avoid dryness and breakouts, you should consume 8 to 10 glasses of water everyday.
Hair care post diwali and keeping hair safe from pollution
Diwali maybe one of your favorite festivals but you cannot afford to overlook the fact that crackers mount up the usual pollution level to manyfold. With or without restrictions from the government, firecrackers remain an inevitable part of Diwali. Undeniably, pollution causes irretrievable damage especially to your hair. Adopting the[Read More…]
Delhi-NCR witness ‘severe’ air quality
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…]
Severe pollution on foggy Saturday
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…]
SC ban on firecrackers flouted, air pollution increased six times
New Delhi: The Supreme Court ban during Diwali was violated in full swing across Delhi and NCR with people bursting firecrackers till late night leading to thick haze on Thursday morning and deteriorating air quality, which experts say was six times higher than normal. “The Air Quality Index (AQI) of[Read More…]
Delhi government forms inspection team to check pollution
New Delhi: With Delhi air quality worsening, Environment Minister Imran Hussain on Thursday formed an inspection team to carry out surprise checks in the capital to check air pollution violations. Hussain asserted that the inspections by the six-member committee will be carried out to check “ground level steps” being taken[Read More…]
Emergency action plan to curb Delhi pollution comes into effect
New Delhi, Oct 15 (IANS) The Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority (EPCA) on Monday started implementation of a Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) to control air pollution in the Delhi-NCR region. Under the plan, prepared in 2017 on the directive of the Supreme Court after high pollution levels in[Read More…]
Plastic amounts severe threat to endangered specie sea turtle
A sea turtle has a 22 per cent chance of dying if it eats just one piece of plastic, an Australian scientific institution revealed on Friday, quantifying for the first time the risk that plastic pollution poses to sea turtle populations. Scientists found that there was a 50 per cent[Read More…]
Twin City Agreement: Arvind Kejriwal to visit Seoul, will meet mayor Park Won Soon
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has been invited to South Korea by its Seoul mayor Park Won Soon. Kejriwal will be travelling to Seoul for further discussion on the twin city agreement between Delhi and Seoul on September 11. He is expected to discuss several issues related to Pollution, Water,[Read More…]
Make stand clear on firecrackers, curbing pollution: SC to Centre
The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Centre to make its stand clear on steps to curb pollution and about the ill-effects of firecrackers on public health, saying that there was a need to strike a balance between the right to health and the right to carry on a trade or profession.[Read More…]
People are more important than industries, Supreme Court tells Centre over pollution deaths
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday, while taking into a report that 60,000 people have died due to pollution, told the Centre that people are more important than industries. A bench of Justice Madan B. Lokur and Justice Deepak Gupta slammed the Ministry of Environment and Forests after it[Read More…]
Taj Mahal should either be protected or demolished: Supreme Court to Government
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday said that protecting the Taj Mahal had become a “hopeless cause” and from July 31 it will hold daily hearings on how to protect the monument from pollution. “Either you shut it, demolish it or restore it,” said the court, expressing its disappointment[Read More…]
Cannot seek livelihood, complain about pollution in same breath: Parrikar
Panaji: It is not possible to seek jobs and other means of livelihood and at the same time complain about pollution, Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar said on Tuesday, while flaying coal pollution-related protests in South Goa’s Vasco port town, 35 km from Panaji. Speaking at a public meeting in South[Read More…]
‘Kadvi Hawa’: A timely warning about global warming
Film: ‘Kadvi Hawa’ Director: Nila Madhab Pandya Starring: Sanjay Mishra, Ranvir Shorey, Tillotama Shome Rating: **** Look at what we’ve done to Mother Earth. She is no longer Mother, she is Muddle Earth heading towards Murder Earth. In director Nila Madhab Pandya’s new work aptly entitled “Kadwi Hawa”, the bitter[Read More…]
Delhi Chief Minister to meet Haryana CM over pollution
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal left for Haryana on Wednesday to meet Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and discuss the issue of stubble burning and air pollution. Kejriwal in a tweet said he along with Delhi Environment Minister Imran Hussain, Environment Department Secretary Keshav Chandra was on their way to[Read More…]
Delhi: Sisodia says air quality ‘not severe’, experts say otherwise
Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Tuesday said that air pollution in Delhi is “technically very close to severe, but not severe” even as he issued advisories, including the closing of all primary schools in the city for Wednesday. However, experts say the situation is already severe, as the[Read More…]
Kejriwal asks minister to consider closing Delhi schools over pollution
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday said he has asked Education Minister Manish Sisodia to consider closing down of city schools due to pollution. The Chief Minister in a tweet on Tuesday said that, “considering high level of pollution” he has requested Sisodia “to consider closing schools for a[Read More…]
AAP govt may implement odd-even scheme again in 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. Delhi Transport Minister, Kailash Gahlot directed the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) to gear up for implementation of the odd-even scheme[Read More…]
Delhi pollution: AAP government proposes aerial water sprinkling
The Delhi government on Monday expressed its willingness to the Centre to bear the cost of aerial sprinkling of water in the national capital in order to help reduce air pollution. Delhi Environment Minister Imran Hussain wrote to Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Harsh Vardhan and said[Read More…]
Electric cars in India: Present, Problems and Future
There were some hard to digest comments made by road transport and highways minister, Nitin Gadkari. We won’t get into the nitty-gritties of the matter but the simple idea put forth is that the Government is anti-fossil fuel powered cars – diesel or petrol. While the words used and the[Read More…]
Diesel vehicles found breaching emission levels in India too
Diesel cars, of late, don’t seem to be exhaling in the environment’s favour. First in the US, then in Europe, and now in India, diesel-powered cars have been caught emitting more NOx than the prescribed levels under real world conditions. Surprisingly, the cars are well within the emissions limits when[Read More…]
Unprecedented growth turning Gurugram into ‘living hell’: Report
Gurugram may turn into a “living hell” due to the explosive urbanisation stretching the city’s resources to the limit, said The Centre for Science and Environment. Necessary steps must be taken to make its growth model more sustainable. The observation presented by the centre is a part of a report[Read More…]
Poor quality of river water in UP says CAG
A CAG report suggests that the water quality of crucial rivers in Uttar Pradesh don’t comply with the norms. The main reason of this could be inadequate sewage and industrial effluent treatment facilities in the state. This review report on the economic sector for 2015-16 laid out in the Uttar[Read More…]
Uttarakhand High Court issues notice to river Ganga
Days after the Uttarakhand High Court declared river Ganga as a living entity, a notice was issued upon the river by the court. This is the first time a river has been issued a legal notice, Hindustan Times reported. A two-judge bench led by VK Bisht and Alok Singh, while[Read More…]