SC to hear pollution cases related to Delhi, other cities today
The Supreme Court will expand its focus on air pollution to other cities in India during a hearing scheduled for Thursday.
The Supreme Court will expand its focus on air pollution to other cities in India during a hearing scheduled for Thursday.
India’s escalating air pollution crisis is one of its gravest public health challenges, yet it remains strikingly absent from mainstream cultural narratives.
Within a fortnight, the degree of air pollution in the industrial cities of Durgapur and Asansol have further crossed the pollution levels of the country's highest polluted cities in recent times.
According to the 2010 Global Burden of Diseases (GBD), published by the WHO, indoor air pollution is the second largest killer in India after blood pressure, claiming two lives every minute.
Besides, air pollution ranks among the leading risk factors contributing to the disease burden in most South East Asian countries and India is no exception.
South Asia is home to nine of the world's 10 cities with the worst air pollution, and Dhaka is one of them, said a World Bank report presented in the capital of Bangladesh.
Many parts of Laos are covered in a thick haze with PM 2.5 levels greatly exceeding safe levels, adversely affecting people's health and reducing visibility in some places.
The state transport department is gearing up to tighten its grip on the fake vehicles pollution testing centres in the state.
Assam Congress MP Pradyut Bordoloi has expressed his concern about the rising level of pollution in the northeast specifically in Guwahati.
Pollution clouds generated in India can travel thousands kilometres to Sri Lanka during NE monsoon, referred as transboundary air pollution.
