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India Battle with Air Pollution: New Delhi Tops List as Most Polluted Capital
In the 6th Annual World Air Quality Report, New Delhi emerges as the most polluted capital city worldwide, with India ranking as the third...
Air Pollution in Delhi Leads to 2-Day Closure of Primary Schools, Limits on Construction Projects
When the air quality in the Delhi-NCR approached the emergency level on Thursday, the government moved quickly to mitigate the health-threatening pollution, closing primary...
Phase out of coal plants can avoid over 14.5mn premature deaths: Study
New Delhi, May 24 An early phase-out of coal plants around the world could help avoid over 14.5 million premature deaths from air pollution...
Air sensing tech reveals adverse impact of Delhi air pollution
A unique experiment to gauge the hazardous levels of polluted air in Delhi and surrounding areas, where a woman wore a backpack with novel...
Weather condition, stubble burning lead higher pollution on Diwali: CPCB
The levels of air pollution during Diwali this year were found much higher as compared to the last year while a significant dip was...
Air pollution may up risk of neurological disorders: Study
New research adds to the growing body of evidence that air pollution is significantly associated with an increased risk of hospital admissions for several...
Urban air pollution may make Covid-19 more severe: Study
In a major study, researchers have found that long-term exposure to urban air pollution may have made Covid-19 more deadly.
"Both long-term and short-term exposure...
People of Delhi Alone Can’t be Held Responsible for Air Pollution, Says Kejriwal
Day after rubbishing reports that burning of stubble in neighboring states is responsible for just 10 percent of the air pollution in the capital,...
Study Confirms Link Between Air Pollution and Children’s Mental Health
Researchers have discovered that short-term vulnerability to ambient air contamination was linked with increasing of psychiatric diseases in children one to two days later.
The...
Delhi Government May Reschedule Office Work Hours To Tackle Air Pollution
The Delhi government is planning to change the office working hours in the city as one of the precautions to the reduction of congestion...