As the city's air goes from bad to unbreathable, expats can talk about returning home, but for people heavily invested here—native-born Delhiites and others who have built up their careers and rai

Gardiner Harris was the South Asia correspondent of the New York Times for the last three years. He writes a very grim account of pollution in Delhi.

Bengaluru: Ten-year-old Tanisha K, a resident of Vijayanagar in West Bengaluru, ends up in hospital every few weeks with breathing difficulties.

MUMBAI: A politician and an environmental organization had petitioned Union and state government authorities over a decade ago against allowing coal handling on Mumbai Port Trust (MbPT) land.

Recent studies have associated air pollution to rise in chronic disease such as heart attack, strokes, diabetes, hypertension, cancer to mention but a few.

Studies have shown that both air pollution and impaired lungs can cause cognitive deficits. A new study shows that air pollution directly affects cognition and is not mediated by lung function.

Studies have shown that both air pollution and impaired lung function can cause cognitive deficits, but it was unclear whether air pollution diminishes cognition by reducing breathing ability first

A new study from King's College London and the University of Nottingham has found an association between the amount of vitamin E in the body, exposure to particulate pollution and lung function.

MUMBAI: One in four Mumbai schoolchildren possibly has poor lung function, according to a multi-city survey released on the eve of World Asthma Day on Monday.

NEW DELHI: More than a third of schoolchildren in four big cities of India suffer from reduced lung capacity, with Delhi showing the worst results, claims a new study whose results could be pointin