Page 16 - Air Pollution In India

Delhi air pollution: 19 flights cancelled, over 550 delayed and 37 diverted

Airlines caught off guard due to untimely low visibility conditions in first week of November

Arvind Kejriwal says issue of Delhi pollution should not be 'politicised'

Keriwal said his government was not indulging in "blame game" but looking for solutions to pollution caused by stubble burning.

Delhi air pollution: Principal Secretary to PM holds high-level meeting

P K Mishra, the principal secretary to the prime minister, reviewed the situation arising out of severe air pollution in the National Capital Region, and other parts of north India

Air pollution: 40% Delhi-NCR residents want to move to other cities

The survey with over 17,000 respondents from Delhi and NCR region has found that 13 per cent resident believe that they have no option but to cope with rising pollution levels

Air Tamer A-310 review: Great idea, but not yet an answer to air pollution

Priced at Rs 9,999, the Air Tamer A-310 embodies the concept of portable air purifiers that may substitute traditional ones, but that does not seem likely just yet

EV no answer to air pollution: Chicago professor Michael Greenstone

Michael Greenstone is currently helping Gujarat, Maharashtra tackle pollutants

How a Gurugram-based start-up converts air pollutants into ink and paint

Founded by IIT-Delhi graduates, it recently raised Rs 19 crore in Series A round led by IAN Fund, along with IDFC Parampara fund and Jyoti Sagar

India may save 270,000 lives a year by curbing dirty fuel emissions: Study

Eliminating emissions from these sources -- without any changes to industrial or vehicle emissions -- would bring the average outdoor air pollution levels below the country's air quality standard

If Los Angeles and Beijing can fix their air quality, why can't Delhi?

Business Standard takes stock of the things Delhi-NCR has done and needs to do in order to control air pollution

Dust from roads, household cooking make 22-52% of air pollution: UNEP

Some cities in India attribute more than half of their PM2.5 to this dust

87% Indians would buy electric vehicles if that reduced pollution: survey

Transportation accounts for about 11 per cent of India's carbon emissions and is a major source for air pollution in several cities nationwide.

Air pollution cuts short an average Indian's life by 1.5 years: Study

This is the first time data on air pollution and lifespan has been studied together in order to examine the global variations to find out how they affect the overall life expectancy

Toxic air to blame for lung cancer; no longer just a smoker's disease

Currently, lung cancer is responsible for five deaths per 1,000 in India and seven per 1,000 in Delhi

Tackling pollution woes: Niti proposes 15-point action plan 'Breathe India'

The action plan also includes expediting strategic decommissioning of old and inefficient power plants and implementation of a large-scale feebate programme from 2020 onwards

'Data old, air much better now': UP counters WHO over most polluted tag

According to UPPCB, the WHO report pertained to the data collected in 2016 and during the past two years, several steps had been successfully resorted to for improving air quality and curb pollutants

Electricity use needs transformation

Can countries like India achieve sustainability, without affordable and inclusive growth?

Varanasi chokes as air quality 20 times above safe levels, worse than Delhi

Varanasi has only one PM 2.5 monitoring station while Delhi has nearly 40

IMA asks BCCI to consider pollution levels before deciding match venue

If the air quality index (AQI) is between 151 and 200, it is recommended that outdoor exercises should be reduced.

Air pollution may cause brain damage to over 8 mn kids in India: Unicef

The paper said almost 17 million babies under the age of one live in areas where air pollution is at least six times higher than international limits