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Water crisis hits Gujarat village; people forced to drink polluted water
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Navsari (Gujarat) [India], May 19 (ANI): People in the Navsari village in Gujarat are forced to drink the polluted water as the village is facing a water crisis.
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Jharkhand: Villagers in Hazaribagh living in gas chamber for years
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Hazaribagh (Jharkhand) [India], Apr 30 (ANI): Villages in the outskirts of Hazaribagh have been living in a gas chamber due to the extremely polluted environment caused by coal mining. The situation is alarming due to a huge amount of dust and toxic gases emitting from the mines. As per t
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Haryana CM says measures will be taken to tackle pollution in Gurugram
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Gurugram (Haryana) [India], Mar 7 (ANI): Days after the release of a joint report by an environmentalist group and an air purifier company that claimed Gurugram as the "most polluted" city, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said measures will soon be taken to combat the menace po
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No respite from polluted air as Delhi's AQI continues to deteriorate
Updated : 7 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 16 (ANI): The air quality in Delhi continued to deteriorate on Saturday, with fog adding to the woes of locals in the region.
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Industrial pollutants surging cancer cases in villages near Sonipat
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 3 (ANI): People staying in the industrial periphery of Sonipat district's Saboli, Nathupur, Kundli, Akbarpur Barota Safiabad and Sersa are not only breathing deadly air but also paying heavily for polluted water due to industrial waste.
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How clean is River Ganga? Here's a fact check
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Prayagraj (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Jan 17 (ANI): Around 97 towns and cities located on the banks of Ganga discharge over 3.2 billion litres of untreated sewage into the river daily. To keep the water from getting polluted, the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) took up a big challenge t
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Devotees refuse to take dip in polluted Gomti river on Makar Sankranti
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Jan 14 (ANI): Scores of devotees from across the country refused to perform sacred ablutions in Gomti river on the occasion of Makar Sankranti here on Monday due to the presence of toxins in the water.
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Delhiites gasp for breath as air quality remains unhealthy
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 27(ANI): People residing in Delhi and National Capital Region are reeling under the impact of breathing polluted air from the past couple of months due to vehicular pollution, crop residue burning and climate change.
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Hyderabad: GHMC forms special team to combat Hussain Sagar pollution
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], Oct 21 (ANI): The back-to-back immersions during the festival of Ganesh Chaturthi and Durga Puja have left the Hussain Sagar Lake in Hyderabad polluted.
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Eliminating emissions in India and China can add years to people's lives:
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Oct 18 (ANI): About 2.7 billion people who live in China and India-- which is more than a third of the world's population--regularly breathe polluted air.
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Yamuna cleaning project yet to get NOC
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
Agra (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Oct 15 (ANI): As many as five different state departments are yet to give a No Objection Certificate (NOC) for the Yamuna River cleaning project resulting in a delay in the implementation of the action plan for reviving the polluted river.
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Carbon from polluted air is reaching placenta: Study
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA] Sep 16 (ANI): Turns out, soot from polluted air can affect the placenta.
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