Tag: Delhi pollution
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Delhi air quality may worsen, says minister Imran Hussain
Environment Minister Imran Hussain on Tuesday said the city’s air quality may worsen and directed to continue measures to impound and shut down visibly polluting vehicles and factories. Hussain, in a letter to Environment Department Secretary Keshav Chandra, said the air quality has improved, but it would be temporary and may worsen in the coming …
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November 21, 2017 -
Restrain kids from outdoor activities: Delhi government
The Delhi government on Tuesday appealed to all parents to restrain their children from taking part in outdoor activities due to severe air pollution. The Directorate of Education asked the heads of all city schools to tell parents about the “worrisome air pollution situation prevailing in and across Delhi” and to “restrain their children from …
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November 21, 2017 -
Delhi pollution: Haze fails to faze life in national capital
November 16, 2017 -
Haryana, Delhi join hands to tackle menace of air pollution in Delhi, NCR
To check air pollution in Delhi and National Capital Region (NCR), Manohar Lal Khattar-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Haryana and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Delhi headed by Arvind Kejriwal have reached a consensus. After an hour-long meeting chaired by the two Chief Ministers (CMs) at Haryana CM residence here, the duo …
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November 15, 2017 -
Delhi pollution: Khattar, Kejriwal pledge to fight smog in 2018
Chief Ministers Manohar Lal Khattar of Haryana and Arvind Kejriwal of Delhi on Wednesday met for nearly 90 minutes here and agreed to take steps to prevent a repeat of smog in the National Capital Region (NCR) next year. “We … are happy to have had a very fruitful meeting at Chandigarh. We recognize our …
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November 15, 2017 -
Kejriwal seeks meeting with Amarinder over pollution
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday asked his Punjab counterpart Amarinder Singh to meet him in Chandigarh over stubble burning by farmers leading to smog and pollution in the capital and surrounding areas. “Captain Amarinder Singh Sir, I am coming to Chandigarh on Wednesday to meet Haryana CM (Manohar Lal Khattar). Would be grateful …
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November 14, 2017 -
Rain, snow in J-K will reduce Delhi smog: Met Office
The Regional Met Office on Tuesday said rain and snowfall forecast in Jammu and Kashmir will help reduce the smog and pollution levels in Delhi and its adjoining areas. Speaking to IANS, Sonam Lotus, director of the Met Department said: “The balancing of a weather system in the coming days in Jammu and Kashmir will …
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November 14, 2017 -
118 trains delayed due to heavy smog in Delhi
The national capital woke up to a moderate foggy Tuesday morning with the minimum temperature settling at 14.6 degrees Celsius, a notch above the season’s average, the Met office said. At least 118 trains delayed, 34 rescheduled and 10 were cancelled due to the shallow fog in northern India. “There was modetate fog on Tuesday …
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November 14, 2017 -
Rahul Gandhi takes poetic dig at Delhi’s smog
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Monday took a poetic dig at Delhi’s smog situation, quoting lines from a Hindi film song, and questioned why everyone is indifferent to the issue. “Seene me jalan, ankhon me tufan sa kyon hai, is sheher me har shaks pareshan sa kyon hai (What is the cause of this …
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November 13, 2017 -
New trend
The current smog that enveloped the Capital over the past week has left one with a sense of deja vu. While air pollution is nothing new to Delhiites and smog ~ very different from the beautiful winter fog ~ has become a regular occurance, it is the intensity that has hit the citizens this year. …
November 12, 2017 -
BJP slams Delhi government for putting odd-even on hold
The BJP on Saturday alleged that the Arvind Kejriwal government has admitted its administrative failure by putting on hold the decision to implement the odd-even scheme in Delhi. “Kejriwal government completely failed in taking preventive steps against pollution and it has taken immature steps to deal with the crisis. Administration in Delhi has collapsed and …
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November 12, 2017 -
Foggy Saturday morning in Delhi, 64 trains delayed
It was a foggy Saturday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 12.6 degrees Celsius, a notch below the season’s average. At least 64 trains were delayed, 14 rescheduled and two trains were cancelled due to the shallow fog in northern India. “The sky will remain partly cloudy during the day, with mist and …
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November 11, 2017 -
Masks, air purifiers not effective: AIIMS Director
As pollution levels in Delhi-National Capital Region surged, AIIMS Director Randeep Guleria on Wednesday said N95 masks and air purifiers may not provide full-time protection from respiratory threats during the current pollution scenario. “We all need to understand that N95 masks and air purifiers, whose sale has increased in the last few days due to …
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November 8, 2017 -
Thick fog covers Delhi, air quality remains toxic
The national capital and its adjoining suburbs were blanketed in a grey haze on Wednesday morning, dipping visibility to 300 meters at some places, causing train delays and slowing down flight operations here. Some 30 trains coming to Delhi and 30 flights landing or taking off from the Delhi airport were delayed, according to officials. …
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November 8, 2017 -
Kejriwal wants to meet Haryana, Punjab CMs over pollution
A day after Delhi witnessed its worst ‘air quality’ and ‘smog situation’ of the year, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday said he wished to meet his Haryana and Punjab counterparts to find a solution to pollution in the National Capital Region. On Tuesday, a yellow blanket of smog hung heavily in the city sky, …
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November 8, 2017 -
Capital’s pollution a ‘public health emergency’: IMA
With a “severely polluted” smog blanketing the national capital and its adjoining region on Tuesday, the Indian Medical Association (IMA) described the prevailing air pollution in Delhi-NCR as a “public health emergency”, urging the people not to go outdoors and demanding the shutting of schools. IMA president Dr K K Aggarwal said the Air Quality …
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November 8, 2017 -
Those who survive in polluted Delh, can survive anywhere: Parrikar
The national capital is so polluted that anyone who can survive in Delhi can survive anywhere, Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar said on Tuesday. “The pollution in Delhi is so bad, that anyone who survives in Delhi, probably survives anywhere in the most polluted areas. While Goa is so clean, that when I used to …
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November 7, 2017