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.
The recent State of Global Air report found that air pollution caused 170k kids’ deaths in India in 2021.
Air pollution remains a critical global challenge, with severe health implications for millions of people worldwide.
Addressing a press conference at the party office here, Ramesh, the Congress general secretary in charge of Communications, said, “The Central government is responsible for the severe air pollution in Delhi as it had not taken any effective steps to check pollution in the past 10 years.”
As India braces itself for the looming power shortfall in June, it finds itself at a critical juncture where the balance between energy security and environmental sustainability is under intense scrutiny.
Air pollution poses a significant threat to the Sundarbans, a crucial mangrove ecosystem in West Bengal that protects the region from extreme weather, warns a recent study by leading environmental scientists
