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Lifting of local dust fouls up Delhi's clean air
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi, [India], April 14 (ANI): Dry and arid conditions as well as "lifting of local dust" have led to a surge in air pollution in Delhi pushing it into the 'moderate' range on Tuesday following a spell of nearly two weeks of clean air in the national capital.
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Govt earmarks Rs 4,400 cr for clean air, massive hike from last year
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Underlining its increased focus on air quality improvement, the central government has earmarked a whopping Rs 4,400 crore for FY 2020-21 for cleaner air, a massive hike from the last Budgetary allocation of Rs 460 crore.
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Budget 2020: Govt sets aside Rs 4,400 cr to battle climate change
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Underlining India's focus on environment preservation and climate change, the government has set aside Rs 4,400 crore to spend under this head in this year's Union Budget, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced on Saturday.
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Maharashtra: 'Oxygen Parlour' at Nashik Railway Station to combat air poll
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Nashik (Maharashtra) [India], Dec 23 (ANI): In a unique initiative to battle rising air pollution in cities, an 'Oxygen Parlour' has been opened at Nashik railway station to provide an experience of breathing clean air to the commuters.
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Delhi gasps for clean air, AQI remains in 'very poor' category
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 11 (ANI): The air quality in the national capital has plunged to the 'very poor' category with the overall Air Quality Index (AQI) at 334 with PM2.5 at 233 and PM10 at 387, said System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research (SAFAR).
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Centre to install air purifier towers to curb air pollution in Delhi-NCR
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec1 (ANI): With an aim to combat the menace of air pollution in Delhi and national capital region, the Central Government has decided to deploy large -scale air purifying system named Adaptive Clean Air Network, which will be a pilot demonstration for a smog tower in t
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National clean air programme should have measures to penalise non-implemen
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 21 (ANI): Congress member Shashi Tharoor on Thursday said that the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) launched by the government does not have legal measures "to penalise non-implementers" and said there was a need to bring a legislation to give the programme force of
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Congress member suggests statutory parliament panel to help fight pollutio
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 19 (ANI): Congress leader Manish Tewari on Tuesday suggested creating a statutory committee of Parliament that looks into the issues related to air pollution and climate change and said that its work should be placed before the two Houses in every session.
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TMC MP raises air pollution issue in LS, bats for ensuring right to breath
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi (Maharashtra) [India], Nov 19 (ANI): TMC MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar on Tuesday raised the issue of rising air pollution in several parts of the country in Lok Sabha and asked the government to ensure the right to breath clean air.
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Want PM to come up with new law to clean air: Cong MP Gogoi on Air Polluti
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 18 (ANI): As the winter session of the Parliament began on Monday, Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi protested in front of the statue of Mahatma Gandhi in the parliament premises against rising air pollution levels. He said that he wants Prime Minister Narendra Modi to come up
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Air pollution crisis: Gurugram gasping for breath as AQI crosses 700
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Gurugram (Haryana) [India], Nov 15 (ANI): Gurugram residents continued to struggle for clean air as the Air Quality Index (AQI) docked at 703, which falls in the 'severe plus' category, on Friday morning, said System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research (SAFAR).
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Centre should bring law to tackle air pollution :BSP
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 5 (ANI): Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader and national spokesperson Sudhindra Bhadoria on Tuesday welcomed Supreme Court's decision on the issue of rising pollution in Delhi and said that the Centre must bring some kind of law to curb the menace and access to clean air
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