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Delhi: Street children forced to breathe polluted air
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), Nov 15 (ANI): At times when schools in Delhi NCR are shut for two days due to the air pollution, some poor children on the streets are forced to breathe the toxic air as they struggle hard to sell their goods at the traffic signals to sustain their daily bread.
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Air pollution: Delhi HC pulls up Delhi govt, suggests clutch of measures
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 14 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Thursday pulled up the AAP-led Delhi government and other authorities over increasing air pollution levels in the city and suggested a clutch of measures to bring it down.
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Air pollution crisis: Children took part in marathon voluntarily, clarifie
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 14 (ANI): Founder of the NGO which had organised a children's marathon in the national capital despite worsening air quality issued a clarification saying that kids had voluntarily participated in the event.
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Air pollution forces children indoors in Delhi-NCR, schools shut for 2 day
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 14 (ANI): With each passing day, the air quality of the national capital and its adjoining areas such as Gurugram, Faridabad, Ghaziabad, and Noida continues to deteriorate making it tough for the residents, especially children, to go outdoors.
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Delhi air pollution 'critical moment' for Vietnamese embassy staff, foreig
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 13 (ANI): The spike in pollution levels in Delhi is a critical moment for the staff at Vietnamese embassy who are taking care of themselves with the help of air purifiers as they do not have a choice, Vietnamese ambassador to India Pham Sanh Chau said on Wednesday.
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Prakash Javadekar assumes charge of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprise
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 13 (ANI): Union Minister Prakash Javadekar on Wednesday took additional charge of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises Ministry and hoped that this arrangement is for a "temporary period".
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Zoo animals in Kanpur experience respiratory issues amid rising air pollut
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Nov 13 (ANI): Animals in Kanpur Zoological Park experienced respiratory problems due to poor air quality in the city.
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People should visit Himachal to beat Delhi's pollution: BJP MP Kishan Kapo
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi,[India], Nov13 (ANI): As the air quality plummeted to the severe category in Delhi and the NCR on Wednesday, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from Himachal Pradesh, Kishan Kapoor said the people of the national capital should visit the hill state for better health.
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SC advocate holds stubble burning responsible for spike in air pollution i
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 13 (ANI): Supreme Court advocate Vijay Panjwani on Wednesday expressed concerns about the air pollution in Delhi and held stubble burning from the neighboring states responsible for the rising menace in the region.
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BJP's Meenakshi Lekhi slams CM Kejriwal over rising Delhi air pollution
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 13 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Meenakshi Lekhi slammed the Arvind Kejriwal led government in Delhi for re-introducing odd-even scheme in the capital and spending money for its advertisement to make it popular.
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As Kejriwal hints at extending vehicle rationing scheme, Vijay Goel slams
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 13 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Vijay Goel on Wednesday accused Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal of 'not doing enough' to combat air pollution in the capital and added that the odd-even scheme was introduced for "vote bank politics" in the national ca
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Uttarakhand: Garbage engulfed in fire at Haldwani trenching ground
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Haldwani (Uttarakhand) [India] Nov 13 (ANI): Amid growing concerns about air pollution, fire continued to rage in the garbage dump at Haldwani's trenching ground on Wednesday.
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