Diwali is a week away but the capital's air quality has already plunged to "very poor" levels, breaching the hazardous "red zone" on Sunday for the first time this season - a level, if sustained fo

The Delhi government apparently has not chalked out any plans as yet to implement the odd-even scheme as an emergency measure this winter.

Toxic smoke from agricultural fires in neighbouring States aggravates problem

BENGALURU: The quality of air in the city has taken a severe beating over the past five years. From a satisfactory level in 2011, the quality has been downgraded to a moderate level in 2015.

The ritual of marking the victory of good over evil — burning Ravana effigies — had quite the opposite effect on air quality in Delhi-NCR, with the national capital, Gurgaon and Faridabad among the

AGRA: A recent study by experts from University of Massachusetts, IIT-Bombay and Desert Research Institute in the US points out that the amount of air pollution exposure data available in India is

Smartphone maker Xiaomi has forayed in the nascent air-purifier segment in India.

Lack of calibration of pollution-measuring instruments has been hampering efforts of the country's pollution watchdog to come out with accurate data on air pollution.

NAVI MUMBAI: It is tough to breathe easy in Koparkhairane and Turbhe nodes which have violated the national permissible limits for pollutants such as sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, as per the cit