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 …
Babies born to mothers exposed to air pollution from traffic sources during pregnancy have an increased risk of developing asthma before the age of five, finds a new study. Exposure to air pollution from traffic sources during pregnancy increases the risk of developing asthma during the first five years of …
Bhubaneswar: The air that you breathe in the city is not as safe as you may believe it to be. In fact, it's polluted enough to cause respiratory disorders. A report by the Odisha State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) revealed that pollutants in the ambient air were found to be …
The President said citizens of this country have a right to lead a healthy, happy and productive life. “Distressing” pollution levels in cities have “breached” people’s right to lead a healthy, happy and productive life, President Pranab Mukherjee said on Tuesday. Addressing a conference, he said climate change has moved …
With the ‘positives’ of strict traffic restrictions that saw private heavy vehicles kept out of Bengaluru during the Invest Karnataka meet, the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board will urge the State government to look into this experiment as a long-term solution. KSPCB Chairman Lakshman said these restrictions can enable an …
Babies born to mothers exposed to air pollution from traffic during pregnancy have an increased risk of developing asthma before the age of six, according to new research by scholars from University of British Columbia based in Vancouver in west Canada. The leading author of the research, Hind Sbihi, from …
Everyone needs clean air to survive, yet somehow it is not an internationally recognized human right. That probably has something to do with the fact that over half of the world’s population live in areas where they breathe in toxic air. Altogether, that means there are more than 3.5 billion …
We perform a consequential life cycle analysis of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs), hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), and conventional gasoline vehicles in the PJM interconnection using a detailed, normative optimization model of the PJM electricity grid that captures the change in power plant operations and related emissions due to vehicle charging. …
Ludhiana: Raising a voice against noise pollution, young businessmen from the city carried out a campaign in the city distributing stickers of 'Horn Not OK Please' (HNOP). These young residents have also decided to write to the central government in this regard, requesting them to make a provision in the …
Delhi-based advocacy organisation urges Global CEO Ralph Speth to retract them and support govt in bringing clean diesel technology The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has condemned the remarks made by Ralph Speth, chief of Tata Motors-owned Jaguar Land Rover over Delhi's air quality. The Delhi-based research and advocacy …
Vehicle purchasers will be able to get data on mass emission values and noise level of horns from July 1. Based on an order issued by the National Green Tribunal, Pune, on November 26, 2015, the ministry of road transport and highways issued an advisory to all vehicle manufacturers to …
All types of vehicles will be subjected to checks, including buses and trucks. Intensive emission testing drives will be carried out across the City from this month-end in an effort to keep tabs on rising pollution levels. Random checks will be conducted by the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) …
First improve public transport, suggests LoP Gupta On day two of the referendum on odd-even scheme of the government, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said people at IP Extension have favoured the return of the road-rationing scheme in as early as mid-February. The ruling party MLAs from several other locations …
The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) said, the car companies cannot be allowed to “hide behind such claims” amid raging concerns over “toxic diesel emissions even in advanced markets today”. Slamming Jaguar Land Rover for calling Delhi air sucked in by its cars ‘far dirtier’ than what they emit, …
Last week, the BMC’s counsel sought three months to complete the task in the remaining 16 wards. The NGT granted them two months to expeditiously carry out the mapping. After the state government received a rap from the National Green Tribunal on the issue of mapping Mumbai’s silence zones, the …
Chennai: The city's air took a beating this week, with pollution levels rising to alarming levels at Alandur and Adyar. Particulate matter (PM 2.5) content in the air reached a peak of 404 microgramscubic metre (gm3) against the permissible limit of 60gm3. On Friday , Alandur saw the PM 2.5 …
Experts say UT should encourage e-rickshaws, cycles; boost public transport With Chandigarh to go car-free on February 28 for seven hours, environmental experts, while welcoming the initiative, say that much more is required to curb pollution in the city. In a meeting held Friday, the UT Administration had decided to …
New Delhi: In scathing criticism of the ban on sale of high-end diesel cars in Delhi, Tata-owned luxury carmaker Jaguar Land Rover has said the air sucked in by its latest technology vehicles on Delhi roads is "far dirtier" than what they emit. "The latest EU VI regulation schemes have …
Gurgaon: A year after National Green Tribunal (NGT) issued guidelines for pollution control centres (PCC) to follow while issuing Pollution Under Control certificates to vehicles, TOI has found that most PCCs in Gurgaon do not have government-approved machines to check for emissions, some making do with no more than a …
Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) on Thursday submitted a status report on the city's air quality from 2011 to 2015 to the high court. It suggests that the air pollution levels in Delhi see three peak phases annually-May-June, October-November and December-January. DPCC also submitted monthly average concentrations for five years, …
Emergency services in the capital may soon have to rely on choppers, the Delhi high court observed on Thursday, commenting on the increasing traffic in the city. A division bench, comprising Justices B D Ahmed and Sanjeev Sachdeva, made the remark after learning from traffic police that at least 14 …
