Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
The National Green Tribunal has banned all diesel vehicles which are more than 10 years old and said that they will not be permitted to ply in Delhi. Read text of this 9-page order issued on 07 April 2015. The National Green Tribunal bans all diesel vehicles which are more …
On an unusually cool April morning, around 150 cyclists set out from DLF Galleria market for a 36km ride to the centre of Delhi. The purpose of this cyclothon was to raise awareness of the hazards that vehicular pollution poses for residents in the NCR, and to promote non-motorised transport. …
Chief Secretary asks officials to work on an action plan to improve air quality The Chief Secretary has directed all officials concerned across Government Departments to submit compliance of the National Green Tribunal’s orders pertaining to checking vehicular pollution and work on an action plan to improve the air quality …
India's government launched a new air quality index on Monday, under intense pressure to act after the World Health Organization declared New Delhi the world's most polluted capital. Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said the government would publish air quality data for 10 cities, amid growing public concern over the impact …
The death toll from air pollution, usually put at around 29,000 a year in the UK, could be substantially higher because the lethal effect of nitrogen dioxide (NO2), emitted during fossil fuel burning, has not been taken into account, experts believe. Until now, only deaths linked to fine particles, less …
It’s nearing midnight, and a dense shroud of dust and smoke hangs over this checkpost 500m away from the Shahdara flyover in Delhi’s east. This is one of over 100 checkposts for trucks that enter the city — an estimated 80,000, from 8pm to 6am, at just over two per …
Trucks contribute more than 60 per cent of the pollutants spewed by diesel vehicles inside Delhi, and have created what is being labelled as “a third peak hour” in the night when an estimated 80,000 of them are allowed to enter the city. While you are sleeping: 80,000 trucks enter …
Hours of prolonged standing at busy traffic intersections along with being exposed to environmental pollution has led the Pune police to embark on an ambitious project to prepare a health report card of traffic police personnel. Clearly, traffic police are surrounded by significant health threats. There are a total of …
Long hours in harsh sunlight without protective gear and exposure to rising pollution have affected the eyesight of traffic policemen in the city. Of the 600 policemen who underwent a comprehensive eye check-up recently, 145 were diagnosed with a range of problems. These include refractive error and cataract which are …
The national capital's poor air quality may be killing silently and slowly, but successive governments, irrespective of which political party headed them, have seemed in no hurry to act. This is obvious from the number of draft "action plans" prepared since 2009, just after Delhi started losing the gains made …
North India switched to Euro IV fuels from Wednesday. The move is expected to lead to a steep reduction in particulate emissions from diesel vehicles but will not improve Delhi's air quality in the near future because several vehicle makers have expressed their inability to manufacture Euro IV compliant buses …
It doesn’t get bigger than this, in size, scale and rigour — scientists from one of India’s top cancer institutes tracked 11,000 schoolchildren in Delhi for three years. They were drawn from 36 schools, each within 3 km of a pollution-tracking station. This unprecedented study, by the Kolkata-based Chittaranjan National …
EMISSIONS from planes, trains and automobiles — as well as boats and trucks — are the biggest cause of air pollution in Shanghai, China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection announced yesterday. Speaking after a meeting on environmental monitoring, Vice Minister Wu Xiaoqing said that following extensive studies carried out in nine …
The mainland spent more than 400 million yuan (HK$505 million) monitoring pollution in 177 cities last year, according to Wu Xiaoqing, vice-minister for environmental protection. Cars were the main source of locally generated pollution in the country's four major cities, Wu said on Wednesday at an environmental monitoring site in …
SHANGHAI’S air quality is getting worse due to rising vehicle emissions, the high number of construction projects and various meteorological factors, a senior official said yesterday. In the first three months, the average density of PM2.5 pollutants — the tiny particles that are particularly hazardous to health — rose 14 …
Jamil, Juhi Garg and Meera Prasad don’t know that the killer dust in Delhi’s air, RSPM (respirable suspended partculate matter), began falling after CNG was introduced and then, seven years ago, took a treacherous U-turn for the worse. What they know is that their children cough and wheeze into each …
London has taken sixth spot in a new ranking of 23 European cities on air quality, but mayor Boris Johnson is "lucky" to have been rated so highly as he has no plans to comply with air pollution laws until after 2030, if ever. The "Sootfree Cities" rating, compiled by …
The Chinese government on Monday announced new measures to curb air pollution in the capital city of Beijing, which ranks among the most polluted cities in the world. Under the revamped “heavy air pollution emergency plan,” motorists would be limited to driving alternate days when the city announces a red …
Bengaluru: If the government has its way, autorickshaws that run on two-stroke engines will soon be off the roads of Bengaluru. A proposal has been sent to the environment and ecology department to ban such autos which are considered the worst polluters among the city's automobile population. Transport minister Ramalinga …
It is widely accepted that the costs of underpricing energy are large, whether in advanced or developing countries. This paper explores how large these costs can be by focussing on the size of the external effects that energy subsidies in particular generate in two important sectors—transport and agriculture—in two countries …
