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Carbon monoxide

Toxic Delhi

Delhi’s air pollution is no longer a temporary crisis. It has become a regular and predictable condition. What should have triggered sustained alarm has instead settled into what The Statesman aptly described as “choking normality”, where citizens adjust their lives while authorities attempt to manage the problem without much success.

Two masons die of inhaling poisonous gas

Two labourers were killed after inhaling poisonous carbon monoxide gas while trying to open the cover of a newly-constructed water reservoir in the Park Avenue area in Bidhan Nagar, Durgapur today morning.

Toxic Air

Air pollution in ten Indian cities assumed alarming proportions and was linked to deaths of 33,000 people every year between 2008 and 2019, a study published on 6 July 2024 in the Lancet Planetary Health Journal points out.