Pedalling towards a cleaner capital
The real crisis lies in major cities, where overcrowded roads, rising pollution, declining patience and poor traffic discipline have become commonplace.
The real crisis lies in major cities, where overcrowded roads, rising pollution, declining patience and poor traffic discipline have become commonplace.
Delhi’s draft EV Policy 2026 opens for consultation, proposing incentives, scrappage benefits and strict timelines to push electric mobility across two-wheelers, commercial fleets and private vehicles.
Pakistan emerged as the world’s most polluted country in 2025, recording PM2.5 levels up to 13 times higher than the safe limits prescribed by the World Health Organization (WHO).
The framework aims to improve road cross-sections, right-of-way (RoW) utilisation, greening measures and road maintenance protocols across the NCR.
The CAQM, in view of the forecasts for meteorological conditions and air quality index made available by Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) and the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), respectively, has taken a call on the preventive, restrictive measures under stage II of GRAP, invoked in the entire NCR on October 19 last year.
In India's expanding industrial towns where development is often measured by the rising number of factories and manufacturing units, a silent health crisis is developing, one that particularly threatens the lungs of adolescents growing up in this polluted environment.
In a decisive push for cleaner air, the Haryana government on Thursday presented a comprehensive action plan to tackle air pollution at a high-level meeting chaired by the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) Rajesh Verma in Chandigarh.
Delhi Environment Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa on Friday conducted an on-ground inspection of the Automatic Misting System installed along Lodhi Road, designed to suppress dust particles and reduce carbon emissions.
City to soon have its first artificial rain through cloud seeding: Rekha Gupta
The report will be presented by Chief Minister Rekha Gupta in the House.
