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Maharashtra can live up to four years more if the air quality is improved as per the World Health Organisation (WHO).

Maha citizens can live longer if WHO air pollution norms are followed:...

Report says denizens would live about four years longer.

16 Aug 2018 2:46 AM IST

Severe air quality affects healthy people and seriously impacts those with existing diseases.

Indians may live 4 yrs longer if country achieves WHO air quality...

A group of researchers have proposed a slew of measures to overcome the issue that includes applying monetary charges on...

13 Aug 2018 8:28 PM IST

A traffic policeman, wearing an anti-pollution mask,controls traffic amid smog and air pollution which continues to be above dangerous level.

'Indians may live 4 years longer if they get WHO quality standards...

Air pollution alone may cost India more than USD 500 billion per year.

13 Aug 2018 3:44 PM IST

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'Afforestation of marginal lands to reduce pollution'

Teri says exercise in Rajasthan, Gujarat can effectively check dust.

27 Aug 2018 12:42 AM IST

The report highlighted the fact that since 2015, NO2 emissions were caused mainly from vehicular and industrial pollution.

Noxious NO2 levels rise in Mumbai

BMC's environment status report sees city gasping for clean air, water.

1 Sept 2018 1:30 AM IST

Air pollution levels in the national capital escalated to hazardous and visibility dropped significantly as a thick blanket of smog engulfed several parts of the city on Sunday morning. (Photo: ANI)

Air 'poor' in Ghaziabad, Noida, Faridabad, Gurgaon

Average 24-hour AQI at 4 pm on Sunday was 251 in Ghaziabad, 238 in Noida, 224 in Greater Noida, 218 in Faridabad and 209...

7 Feb 2021 8:00 PM IST

IAF helicopters fly over the Rajpath during the the 68th Republic Day celebrations in New Delhi on Thursday. (Photo: PTI)

R-Day air quality 'very poor' in Delhi

During parade hours, real-time volume of PM 2.5 and PM 10 shot up to 199 and 237 micrograms per cubic metres.

26 Jan 2017 4:45 PM IST

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Air quality over Delhi continues to remain 'very poor', says traffic...

In Anand Vihar, the Air Quality Index (AQI) was pegged at 585, in R K Puram at 382, in Mandir Marg at 326 and in...

12 Jan 2017 1:48 PM IST

Among these, more than 10,000 vehicles were punished for excessive exhaust emissions. (Photo: AFP)

Beijing files over 13,000 pollution cases in 2016

A total of 10,184 cases, receiving fines totalling 8.7 million yuan, were due to pollution from mobile emission sources.

11 Jan 2017 4:10 PM IST

To get the situation under control, the Indian government announced it would temporarily shut down construction sites and a coal-fired power station. (Photo: FIle)

India must act soon before 'smog chokes Delhi': research

Experts said that crop burning in neighbouring Haryana and Punjab states, car emissions, construction and use of...

21 July 2017 11:36 AM IST

The Air Quality Index showed that the quality dropped to 317. (Representational picture)

Mumbai records very poor air quality on day one of year

According to System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research the air quality would reduce to 309 on Monday.

2 Jan 2017 5:46 AM IST

The air quality had plunged to dangerous levels on Thursday, after a gap of more than a month.

Drop in air quality may mat New Year spirit

Experts said that the temperatures are likely to fall 5 degrees Celsius in the next two days.

30 Dec 2017 1:23 AM IST