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Air quality dips in Delhi as layer of haze lingers in the sky
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 17 (ANI): Even though the central government and Delhi government are making efforts to curb the pollution level, the air quality continues to dip in the national capital for the last one week.
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Telangana: Last rites of minor help who died of burns conducted in Khammam
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Khammam (Telangana) [India], October 17 (ANI): The last rites of the minor domestic help, who succumbed to burn injuries while undergoing treatment at a hospital in Hyderabad, were conducted in Khammam on Friday.
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Delhi government imposes Rs 1 cr fine on North MCD for increasing air poll
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 16 (ANI): Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai on Friday said that the situation of air pollution in Delhi is constantly deteriorating, but the agencies responsible for controlling the situation are not serious and so a penalty of Rs 1 crore has been imposed on Nor
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CM Pramod Sawant busy reviving projects while innocent people being burnt
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Panaji [Goa], October 16 (ANI): Goa Pradesh Congress Committee president (GPCC) Girish Chodankar on Friday alleged that Chief Minister Pramod Sawant was busy reviving marina, coal, IIT projects while innocent people were being burnt on streets.
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Supreme Court appoints retired SC judge to monitor stubble burning in Punj
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 16 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Friday appointed Justice (retd) Madan B Lokur, a former judge of the top court, to act as the one-man monitoring committee to prevent stubble burning in the states of Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh.
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240 cases of stubble burning surfaced since Oct 1 in UP
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Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], October 16 (ANI): Devesh Chaturvedi, Uttar Pradesh's Additional Chief Secretary, Agriculture on Thursday said that since October 1 this year, about 240 cases of stubble burning have surfaced.
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Ludhiana DC Varinder Kumar Sharma urges farmers to sell paddy straw instea
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Ludhiana (Punjab) [India], October 15 (ANI): Ludhiana Deputy Commissioner Varinder Kumar Sharma on Thursday urged farmers to sell paddy straw to companies that generate electricity from it, instead of burning it.
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Capt Amarinder Singh slams Kejriwal after release of data on Delhi polluti
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Chandigarh [India], October 15 (ANI): Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday slammed Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal following the release of data on Delhi pollution and stubble burning, asking him to stop diverting attention from his failure and protect the enviro
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Issar Pharma develops first-ever peptide molecule for skin care
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Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], October 15 (ANI/NewsVoir): India's first ever peptide molecule for the treatment of Vitiligo was developed way back in 2004 and the second peptide New Chemical Entity (NCE) which is first ever peptide-based drug in the world to treat burn wounds and microbial i
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Kejriwal launches campaign to turn off vehicle ignition at red lights to
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New Delhi [India], October 15 (ANI): In a bid to tackle the increasing air pollution in the national capital due to stubble burning in the neighbouring states, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday launched a campaign to turn off the vehicle ignition at red lights.
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What possibly Delhi could have done to add to pollution in 15 days: Enviro
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 15 (ANI): Hours after Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar stated that stubble burning only contributes 4 per cent to the pollution in the national capital, Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai on Thursday alleged that the Centre has become "spokesperson" o
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Delhi's air quality dips as Punjab farmers continue stubble burning
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Amritsar (Punjab) [India], October 14 (ANI): Despite increasing concerns regarding air pollution in the national capital, farmers in Amritsar's Wadala Johal village on Wednesday continued to burn stubble in their fields.
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