According to SAFAR, the improvement in air quality is unusual for this time of the year.
November 25, 2018The Delhi government on Friday announced that the Badarpur Thermal Power Plant will remain shut until further orders in view of the "very poor" air quality in the city. The decision came days after the Supreme Court empowered Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA) on Tuesday asked the Delhi government to extend the closure of the …
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February 3, 2017Nine out of 10 people globally are breathing poor quality air, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday, calling for dramatic action against pollution that is blamed for more than six million deaths a year. New data in a report from the UN’s global health body "is enough to make all of us extremely concerned," …
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September 27, 2016The photographs of pellet wounds on people in Kashmir have been all over the papers and many of them have had to be hospitalised. No one can die – or so we are told – of a pellet wound, so these have been used liberally during riots. According to the newspapers, the pellet guns used …
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September 24, 2016