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A plan to check stubble burning: Kejriwal, Harsimrat share viable options

Punjab had on Tuesday recorded the season's highest farm fire count of 6,668 despite a recent Supreme Court order to completely halt stubble burning

Letter to BS: Farmers can make wooden boards out of rice stubble

It is a widely used technology in the West

Letter to BS: Crackers, farmers not the only reason for air pollution

We tend to somehow ignore the bigger causes of our misery that haunt us throughout the year

Greed, not fear, will remove Delhi smog

The reliance on perception of fear of the law will not solve this problem

Air pollution: Best air purifiers and masks that can help you breathe easy

Business Standard lists five anti-pollution gears that may be most efficient during poor and hazardous air quality in your city

Relief for Delhi-NCR as air quality improves to 'very poor' category

Gurgaon, Faridabad, Noida and Ghaziabad too recorded 'very poor' overall air quality

Action plan for Delhi

Pollution requires a holistic response

Delhi air pollution: US tech to convert rice stubble into biofuel, not smog

The United States Trade Development Authority (USTDA) signed up to allocate a grant of $300,000-500,00 to Indian engineering firm, The Virgo Group, to carry out a 'scoping study'

Letters to BS: Common man needs fresh air, not toxic politics around it

The common man finds himself helpless, as always, hoping that better sense would prevail among the authorities, coaxing them to do the needful

Delhi air pollution: Plans to curb stubble burning remain a non-starter

Oil companies yet to start procuring stubble, agri-mechanisation remains half-baked

Air pollution: SC terms Delhi situation 'shocking', summons chief secretary

The bench expressed its anguish that authorities have "violated with impunity" the directions passed by the apex court as well the high courts in pollution matter

Air pollution: NGT for allowance to labourers hit by Delhi construction ban

The green panel said daily-wage workers who depend on construction sites to make a living are worst sufferers of the ban on construction activities as they have been rendered jobless

Air pollution: Need to buy air purifier? Here's how to pick the right one

Here are the factors that you should consider before zeroing in on an air purifier to buy

Delhi pollution: AQI still in 'severe' category, Odd-even enters Day 2

The odd-even scheme, which kickstarted on Monday has entered Day 2 with only odd-numbered non-transport vehicles allowed on Delhi roads

Thick cloud of toxic smog in Delhi presents a new challenge for airlines

As many as 37 flights were diverted on Sunday due to poor visibility caused by high concentration of smog in and around the Delhi airport

From masks to putting off events, how embassies are coping with Delhi air

The embassy spokesperson said N95 masks are being provided for the staffers, particularly those required to spend time outside

Air pollution: 'We are helpless', say Punjab farmers on stubble burning

'The government should give us subsidy on machinery which we buy from other than the empanelled suppliers', says a farmer

Air pollution issue: NGT to summon Delhi, central govt officials on Tuesday

The Supreme Court earlier issued directions to Delhi-NCR to stop construction, demolition and garbage burning activities

Don't blame farmers for air pollution, set up rice bio-parks: Swaminathan

In South India, stubble is not burnt as there is economic value as animal feed, he said sharing he had been pointing out for years many economic usage of rice straw.

Pollution control: UP to implement odd-even scheme, says minister

UP Forest Minister said the Police Department will tell us when they are going to implement this