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Delhi's air quality remains in 'poor' category
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 18 (ANI): Delhi's air quality remained in the 'poor' category on Friday, as per System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research.
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In a first, UK court rules air pollution as cause of 9-year-old girl's dea
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
London [UK], December 17 (ANI): In a landmark judgement, a UK coroner has said that air pollution was the cause of death of a 9-year-old London schoolgirl Ella Kissi-Debrah.
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EzySpit Launches CleanBhiKaregaGreenBhiKarega Campaign
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 14 (ANI/NewsVoir): India's leading eco-friendly spittoon producer, EzySpit, which aims at curbing diseases caused due to spitting, initiates its maiden 'Spit and Grow' campaign christened as #CleanBhiKaregaGreenBhiKarega. Launched post the national pollution contr
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SC seeks affidavit from Centre on working of new ordinance to prevent air
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 14 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Monday granted two days to the Central government to file an affidavit about the working of the new ordinance, which was brought to deal with air pollution in Delhi-NCR and adjoining areas.
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Biden should heed environmentalists' calls, become first plastic-free pres
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], December 11 (ANI/Sputnik): As the incoming US president, Joe Biden should address the plastic pollution problem in the United States and become the first plastic-free president, Dianna Cohen, Co-Founder, and CEO of Plastic Pollution Coalition, a US-based environmental allian
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Prakash Javadekar asks govt agencies to collectively fight pollution in De
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 10 (ANI): Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar on Thursday asked all government agencies in Delhi to collectively fight the pollution problem in the national capital and called for strict compliance of Construction and Demolition Waste Management Rules and
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Lahore, Karachi among world's five most polluted cities
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], December 8 (ANI): Karachi and Lahore were listed among the top five cities with the worst air quality in the world, according to the data from IQAir on Monday.
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CPCB raises concern on pollution in Yamuna; asks Delhi, other states for e
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 6 (ANI): The Central Pollution Control Board(CPCB) on Sunday raised concern on pollution and frothing in Yamuna River and asked Delhi and other states to implement effective sewage treatment.
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Green cover on both sides of highways essential to curb vehicular polluti
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New Delhi [India], December 6 (ANI): The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed that while granting environmental clearance, the Ministry of Environment must ensure that an effective monitoring mechanism exists to ensure compliance with requisite safeguards including the plantations on t
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Delhi to experience very poor air quality for next two days, says IMD offi
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 4 (ANI): The national capital Delhi will experience "very poor" air quality in the next two days, an India Meteorological Department official said on Friday.
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NGT directs NCR local bodies to ensure sprinkling water before sweeping ro
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 4 (ANI): The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed all the Municipal Corporations and Local Bodies in the national capital region and other cities with air quality 'poor' and worse, to take steps to ensure sprinkling of water before sweeping of roads.
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Delhi govt addresses only 34 per cent of 3,094 complaints through app, CPC
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 4 (ANI): The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has issued a notice to the Delhi government directing it to ensure immediate action for complete redressal on public complaints.
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