Improving air quality of an area is dependent on a host of factors including tackling pollution at source, cleaning cities, mitigating the bad conditions of roads, boosting public transport and taking afforestation drives. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has released new air pollution norms, substantially bringing down the permissible air emissions for an area to … Read more
Delhi Air Quality Index, air pollution update: Diwali 2020 witnessed a higher presence of all pollutants in the air than it was measured in the corresponding period last year, according to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). The CPCB filed a report before the National Green Tribunal (NGT) stating that all pollutants have been reported … Read more
Delhi Air Quality Index today, Air Pollution: To put into perspective how bad is Delhi’s air quality, the prescribed safe limit of PM2.5 particles in the air is 25 per cubic metre, as per detail provided by the World Health Organisation. (Reuters image) Delhi Air Quality Index today, Air Pollution: The Air Quality Index in … Read more
Dr. Bhargava has said that wearing face masks “inexpensive but effective approach” to tackle the situation. Coronavirus Covid-19 update: Pollution is a key aspect related to Coronavirus deaths, revealed the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) DG Dr Balram Bhargava. Dr. Bhargava said that studies conducted in Europe and the US have indicated that pollution … Read more
The current air quality index at 12 PM shows an AQI of 286 for Delhi and the measure comes under the ‘poor’ category. (Representative image by Reuters) Delhi Air Quality Index, Air Pollution: The overall Delhi Air Quality continues to remain in the higher end of the poor category on Wednesday with the rise of … Read more