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 …
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday proposed banning sirens in vehicles barring those of the Governor, Patna High Court Chief Justice, fire engines and ambulances to check increasing sound pollution. Presiding over a Home Department review meeting, Mr Kumar stressed on measures to contain noise pollution by blaring …
An elaborate analysis of the impact on air quality would also help officials plan future policy measures like exemptions. To study the real time impact of the odd-even scheme to curb vehicular pollution, mobile air quality machines will be deployed in at least six areas in the capital and 20 …
The world's “most polluted city“ may have reached a turning point going into 2016. Crowning a two-year public campaign for clean air in Delhi, Supreme Court on December 16 delivered a landmark judgment placing numerous restrictions on private and commercial diesel vehicles. It stopped the entry of trucks with pre-Bharat …
A plea seeking stay of the state government notification directing to public schools of national capital to provide their buses for running as public transport from January 1 to 15 when the number of private vehicles on the capital's roads will drastically fall, was filed in Delhi High Court on …
To improve air quality in Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR), the Central Pollution Control Board on Dec 30, 2015 issued directions to State Pollution Control Boards of Delhi, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan to immediately begin taking actions against visibly polluting vehicles and open burning of biomass, leaves, …
GURGAON: Lack of public transport has come in the way of fighting pollution in the city. After setting a January 31 deadline for conversion of diesel cabs and autos to CNG, the state government has now backtracked and is planning to phase out diesel autos from March 2016. This is …
NEW DELHI: Daily bulletins will keep you informed about the odd-even formula's impact on air quality from January 1 to 15. The environment department will monitor air quality at 200 locations from 8am to 8pm using data from six mobile units, 20 stationary air quality samplers and the monitoring stations …
Smog returned to Beijing and much of northern China late Sunday after a short respite on Saturday, with the weather authorities warning residents to prepare for moderate to heavy pollution for much of this week, including New Year’s Day. Beijing and neighbouring Tianjin, Hebei, Henan and Shandong would be covered …
From January 1, 2016 Delhi will witness the implementation of the ambitious odd and even umber car scheme to check air pollution. With just two days to go, see this official notification from Delhi government for list of exemptions and other details In exercise of the powers conferred vide section …
Shimla: After finding out that vehicular emission has become a major source of rising air pollution in Himachal Pradesh, State Pollution Control Board has directed regional transport officers to comply with vehicular emission and noise standards as notified by Union ministry of environment & forest in all vehicles registered in …
India is devising a plan to combat smog in the capital New Delhi, the world`s most polluted city, two senior officials said, but the government is stopping short of targeting the powerful transport industry. Instead, the plan will call for enforcing bans on what some environmentalists regard as relatively minor …
Delhi govt writes to LG for authorisation to issue challans; rule to apply to all cars entering Delhi. From January 1 to January 15, every car entering Delhi will have to follow the odd-even registration number rule as the government sets out to implement an idea to reduce congestion on …
Delhi Air Pollution, Air Pollution in Delhi Under the plan, the government will enforce a ban on burning garbage and tyres in Delhi and its three surrounding states; require that construction sites are covered with curtains; and clean road dust. (Express photo by Gajendra Yadav) Government is devising a plan …
The research lab claims their idea will be more effective that Delhi's proposed odd-even licence-plate policing. A mid-week work-from-home, rather than licence-plate policing, may be the solution to Delhi’s pollution crisis, suggests the policy arm of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, India’s largest chain of publicly-funded research labs. …
New Delhi: The national capital is facing a more serious pollution crisis from secondary particles, in addition to tiny pollution particles (PM2.5) being emitted from various sources like transport, waste burning or dust. The recent draft IIT Kanpur report has flagged that secondary particles which are formed from chemical reactions …
KOLKATA: The real extent of pollution in the city remains undetected in the absence of enough monitoring devices, admits the West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB). While all the 11 monitoring stations in Kolkata and 12 in the rest of the state are supposed to be armed with PM2.5 samplers …
AIIMS has endorsed a concern raised by medical practitioners for months -increased air pollution in Delhi is affecting not just our lungs but almost every part of the body . In a joint statement on Tuesday , the hospital's top doctors said that most departments, including cardiology , ophthalmology , …
Hyderabad: While Delhi debates the ban on 15-year-old vehicles by the National Green Tribunal, Hyderabad has around 8 lakh such vehicles. These vehicles do not adhere to the ‘Bharat’ norms of vehicular emissions, which are based on the Euro standards and were introduced in India only in 2000. Most vehicles …
Patna: Unhappy with the state government's reply on "excessive noise pollution" in major towns of Bihar, the Patna high court on Monday sought a detailed report from it. Acting on a PIL filed by one Samir Kumar, a division bench of acting chief Justice Iqbal Ahmed Ansari and Justice Chakradhari …
BHUBANESWAR: Dusts were seen lying scattered over several roads in the city. When a vehicle passes through the roads, suddenly a cloud of dusts appear and leave the passerby gasp for fresh breath. Mostly street roads and arterial roads are dustier than the major roads like Janpath, Governor?s house to …
