Kolkata is alive, its streets are pulsating with a diverse tapestry of cultures and ventures. Yet, as traffic snarled, pollution thickened and logistics services deteriorated, the joy of exploration faded.
The reported processing capacity of 322 registered e-waste recyclers in India is 22,08,918.064 metric tonnes (MT) per annum and the processing capacity of 72 registered e-waste refurbishers is 92,042.18 MT per annum as on Feb 9, 2025, Minister of State for Environment Kirti Vardhan Singh informed Parliament on Thursday.
Delhi-NCR woke up to light rainfall on Tuesday morning, with the India Meteorological Department (IMD) predicting that showers will continue throughout the day.
Mark Twain once remarked that “Whisky is for drinking; water is for fighting over.” Fresh water is a very precious and limited natural resource even though water covers about 71 per cent of the earth’s surface.
Severe wintertime ozone (O3) pollution may be driven by alkene emissions from local petrochemical industries, and can be detrimental to human health, finds a study.
People continued to breathe in polluted air across Delhi, as the city's average Air Quality Index (AQI) on Saturday pegged under the 'very poor' quality, according to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).
Pollution is the presence of a wrong thing, in the wrong place, in the wrong quantity, and at the wrong time. It is evident that such a thing will prove harmful. Air pollution is one of India’s primary killers.
No significant improvement took place in the pollution levels in Delhi as city’s average air quality on Tuesday remained to be in the ‘very poor’ category, the daily Air Quality Index (AQI) bulletin released by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) said.
With not much respite for the residents, Delhi's average air quality on Monday remained to be in the 'very poor' category, the daily Air Quality Index (AQI) bulletin released by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) said.
Om Sher Bahadur, a patient from Nepal is struggling to negotiate with the growing air pollution in Durgapur.
