NEW DELHI: Brace for severely poor air quality this Diwali, primarily due to two reasons: one, pollution levels are already high because of massive agricultural-residue burning in neighbouring stat

GHAZIABAD: The high pollution levels in Kaushambi have forced the Kaushambi Apartments Residents Welfare Association (KARWA) to start an online campaign to discourage the use of firecrackers this D

TRICHY: The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) will set up temporary Ambient Air Quality Stations at three places in the city to monitor pollution levels during Diwali.

KOLKATA: Environmentalists fear the ostensible flip-flop by West Bengal Pollution Control Board over permissible noise level of firecrackers this year will make the din unbearable on Kali Puja and

A report on the pollution levels in the Yamuna before, during and after idol immersion during Durga Puja shows that pollution levels were highest during the time of immersion, but quick action and

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

Shoppers throng markets to buy firecrackers as authorities struggle to implement ban on highly polluting crackers; govt. says public cooperation is needed

KOLHAPUR: The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) found that four series firecrackers were breaking the noise level norms and the violation was bigger when the firecrackers were tested at th

Brushing aside reports of the state pollution board granting clearance to 'chocolate bomb' and 'dodoma', environment minister Sovan Chatterjee on Thursday made it clear the government was not at al

This year, we can expect a less noisy Diwali. For the first time in many years, firecrackers which will be sold in the city, are within the permissible sound limit.