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Afghanistan: Concerns rise over Kabul's severe air pollution
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], December 12 (ANI): Afghanistan's capital city Kabul is facing a severe increase in pollution in the winter season, as the Afghan people mostly use cheap fuels, including coal to keep their houses and offices warm in the season.
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Delhi air quality improves marginally, moves to poor category
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 12 (ANI): The air quality in the national capital marginally improved and moved to the 'poor' category on Sunday morning.
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Delhi residents want strict measures by air quality panel against pollutio
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 12 (ANI): With the order of the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) concerning the closure of industries not running on clean fuels coming to an end on Sunday unless extended further, residents are apprehensive about the air quality getting worse if str
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Along with scientific growth, we also have to pledge to make a pollution-f
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Panaji (Goa) [India], December 11 (ANI): Informing that the Central Government is taking various steps to explore the resources in the seas, Union Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways and Ayush Sarbananda Sonowal on Saturday said that along with scientific growth, emphasis also needs to
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Study finds air pollution might reduce benefits of physical activity on br
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Minnesota [US], December 11 (ANI): A study has found that people who do vigorous physical activities in areas with higher air pollution may show less benefit from that workout when it comes to certain markers of brain disease.
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COVID-19 vaccination drive to be hit by shutdown of syringe factories in F
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Faridabad (Haryana) [India], December 11 (ANI): The closure of needles and syringes manufacturing factories in Haryana's Faridabad, as a part of the anti-pollution drive in the NCR region, will hamper the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination drive across the country, said a top official of the ma
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Delhi's air quality deteriorates, slips to 'very poor' category
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 11 (ANI): The overall Air Quality Index (AQI) in the national capital on Saturday morning slipped to 301 in the 'very poor' category, according to the System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research (SAFAR).
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Parliamentarians discuss climate change, pollution issues in both houses
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 10 (ANI): The lower house of Parliament, Lok Sabha, continued the discussion on Climate Change on Friday where Thomas Chazhikadan from Kerala Congress (M) urged the government that remedial actions should not be limited to international conferences or declarati
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NGT directs committee of Centre, UP, U'khand Pollution Control Boards to s
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 10 (ANI): The National Green Tribunal has asked the joint committee of Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Uttar Pradesh PCB and Uttarakhand State PCB to submit a joint report mentioning the details of groundwater extraction and the compliance of conditions
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Rajya Sabha members raise concern over pollution, seek stringent measures
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 10 (ANI): Rajya Sabha members cutting across the party lines on Friday expressed concern over rise in the air, water and land pollution in the country and called for stringent measures to deal with the problem that adversely affects human health.
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NGT directs Tamil Nadu to file 'action taken report' on air pollution in C
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 10 (ANI): The National Green Tribunal directed Tamil Nadu to file an Action Taken Report on the steps taken by the state government to control air pollution in Chennai city and its agglomeration area.
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SC directs CAQM to examine applications seeking lifting of construction ba
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 10 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Friday directed the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) to examine various intervening applications seeking lifting of construction ban and relaxation on industrial restrictions within a week.
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