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Noida, October 28: Delhi is gearing up for an artificial rain experiment through cloud seeding to bring temporary relief from its hazardous air pollution. The operation is being led by IIT Kanpur and aims to trigger rainfall between October 28 and 30 to help wash away harmful pollutants choking the capital's skies. The aircraft for cloud seeding in Delhi has taken off from Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur, ANI reported. Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta confirmed that all preparations for the cloud seedin ...Read More >
Kanpur/New Delhi, October 28: With the air visibility improving by afternoon, a plane carrying scientists took off from Kanpur to attempt cloud seeding and inducing artificial rain in Delhi's Burari area on Tuesday, said an official of IIT-Kanpur. "The plane with two passengers took off at 12.20 p.m. and it will take about two-and-a-half hours to reach Delhi," said an official of IIT Kanpur Media Cell. Earlier in the day, Delhi Forest and Environment Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa told IANS tha ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], October 28 (ANI): In a move to curb rising air pollution in the national capital, the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) on Tuesday announced that all commercial goods vehicles registered outside Delhi and not compliant with BS-VI emission standards will be prohibited from entering the city from November 1. The official notification issued by CAQM states, "The Commission with a view to abate air pollution caused by high volume of transport/commercial goods vehicles ...Read More >
Delhi AQI: On Monday, Delhi's 24-hour average Air Quality Index (AQI) stood at 301 at 4 pm, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) data shoed. Delhiites woke up to a hazy morning with cloudy skies on Tuesday, with the city's air quality remaining in the 'very poor' category at 305, data showed. On Monday, Delhi's 24-hour average Air Quality Index (AQI) stood at 301 at 4 pm, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) data shoed. According to the Sameer app developed by the CPCB, 27 of the 38 monit ...Read More >
Delhi's air quality index (AQI) climbed to an average of 395 on October 21 after Diwali celebrations, placing it in the severe category; PM2.5 levels peaked at 675 µg/m³ on Diwali night. Thirty-six of the city's 38 monitoring stations reported "red zone" readings, marking one of the worst pollution spikes in recent years. By comparison, post-Diwali AQI levels were 328 in 2024, 218 in 2023, and 312 in 2022. The Delhi government is working in collaboration with IIT Kanpur's Department of Aerospac ...Read More >
Noida: The city's air quality showed marginal improvement on Monday but remained in the 'very poor' category at 331, against 327 the day before. Despite the slight relief, a visible layer of smog has settled over Noida and neighbouring cities, indicating persistent pollution. According to station-wise data from the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) portal, three of the four air quality monitoring stations in Noida recorded 'very poor' air quality index (AQI) on Monday with Sector 125 being ...Read More >
New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu would share the nation's vision for solar power-led development and 'One World, One Sun, One Grid' in her address at the 8th Session of the International Solar Alliance (ISA) Assembly on Tuesday at Bharat Mandapam, a statement said on Monday. This would mark the first-ever address by the President of India to the ISA Assembly that underscores India's commitment to ISA's leadership in advancing global solar energy cooperation and its founding vision of "One Wo ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Delhi saw the month's fifth day of very poor air quality as the AQI rose to 321 on Sunday. A day earlier, it was 292 at 4 pm, which is in the poor category.Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) on Sunday did not release its daily 24-hour average AQI bulletin - it is released at 4 pm - till the filing of this report. CPCB's Sameer app showed that Delhi's AQI was last updated at 12 pm at 321. An official, who did not want to be named, said all stations were active and gathering data bu ...Read More >
Chandrapur: Barely a week after a farmer was killed by a tiger in Dhaba forest range, another fatal attack has deepened fears among villagers. A 45-year-old woman, identified as Alka Pendor of Ganesh Pipri village in Gondpipri taluka, was mauled to death by a tiger on Sunday evening while working in an agricultural field.According to forest department sources, the incident occurred when Pendor, a farm labourer, was tending crops in a field near the village. The tiger pounced on her, killing her ...Read More >
New Delhi: Delhi's air is now moving in tandem with farm fires in Punjab. When stubble-burning cases in Punjab shoot up, Delhi-NCR's air quality index (AQI) tends to jump into the "very poor" band within a day. When the burning slows, the air briefly improves. When the fires pick up again, the AQI climbs back. This pattern is clearly visible in daily data between October 16 and October 26. In this chart, each date shows two bars. One bar is the number of stubble-burning incidents Punjab report ...Read More >
Delhi Pollution: Air quality in the National Capital and nearby regions worsened again on Sunday morning, with Delhi's Air Quality Index (AQI) slipping into the 'very poor' category at 322 (as of 6 am), according to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). Noida and Ghaziabad also recorded 'very poor' air, with AQI levels at 353 and 310 respectively. Meanwhile, Gurugram reported 'poor' air quality at 247, while Faridabad fared comparatively better with a 'moderate' AQI of 198. According to d ...Read More >
Gurgaon: Every morning, a dense, acrid haze settles over the new sectors near Sikohpur and Dhanwapur, forcing residents to start their day with stinging eyes and burning throats.The culprit? Unchecked open burning of garbage, which has turned these neighbourhoods into veritable gas chambers at a time when the city's air quality dips low.For months, residents have watched helplessly as piles of mixed waste -- ranging from plastic and rubber to construction debris -- are routinely set alight on va ...Read More >
Kolkata: Kolkata Municipal Corporation's solid waste management department has unveiled a plan to deploy battery-powered vehicles equipped with audio systems that will play popular songs to encourage citizens to segregate waste. This initiative will mark a shift from the existing practice of waste collectors using whistles to alert households.Initially, these vehicles will be deployed in neighbourhoods with low rates of waste segregation. Currently, KMC conservancy workers collect kitchen waste ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: India trialled cloud seeding over its smog-filled capital for the first time, spraying a chemical from an aeroplane to encourage rain and wash deadly particles out of the air. Cloud seeding is the practice of using aeroplanes to fire salt or other chemicals into clouds to induce rain. New Delhi city authorities, working with the government's Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, launched a test run on Thursday (Oct 23) afternoon using a Cessna light aeroplane over the city's northe ...Read More >
Jaipur: Officials from Jaipur Municipal Corporations, Heritage and Greater had promised before Diwali that no open garbage depots or littered streets would be seen after the festival. However, the very next morning, the city woke up to streets with overflowing bins, plastic waste, and scattered remains of fireworks, a sight that still hasn't changed.The sanitation work in the city has been slow for the past five days, as several municipal employees have remained on extended holidays. In several ...Read More >
New Delhi, Oct 25 (PTI) Delhi's air quality showed a slight improvement on Saturday morning, with the AQI in 'poor' category at 261, marking a drop from the 290 recorded a day before, CPCB data showed. However, Anand Vihar was in the 'severe' category with an Air Quality Index (AQI) of 415, the highest among all the monitoring stations in the capital, according to the Sameer app developed by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). Seven stations recorded 'very poor' AQI, while the rest rem ...Read More >
Noida: The air quality index (AQI) in the city improved on Friday to 246 from 276 a day earlier, but remained in the 'poor' category. In Greater Noida too, the AQI showed improvement, falling from 280 to 262, while Ghaziabad saw a marginal deterioration, rising to 269 from 252 on Thursday.Station-wise, Noida's Sector 116, which covers the 7x sectors, recorded an AQI of 263, Sector 62 registered 256, Sector 1 stood at 254, and Sector 125 recorded 222, all in the 'poor' category. In Greater Noida, ...Read More >
New Delhi: Even as Delhi govt prepares to set up 23 major Chhath ghats along the Yamuna, the Delhi stretch of the river, which was visibly cleaner after the monsoon rain, is showing renewed signs of degradation. Frothing has reappeared in parts of it -- a sign that pollution levels are rising again. Delhi Pollution Control Committee's monthly analysis for Oct shows a sharp rise in pollution levels compared to Sept, a month when the Yamuna was the cleanest in the recorded history due to the stron ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar, Oct 24 (UNI) Forest officials seized around 15 quintals of mangrove roots that bore striking resemblance to sandalwood in Bhitarkanika National Park on Friday and arrested nine persons, including five women, for trespassing into protected forest and felling trees. Ten quintals of Salacia prinoides roots and stems locally called Batara, an important mangrove species packed in 20 sacks, and five quintals of ceriops decandra roots locally called as Garani packed in 10 sacks, were seiz ...Read More >
New Delhi : Igniting the next wave of renewable innovation, Informa Markets in India, the nation's foremost curator of B2B growth platforms, proudly announces the 18th edition of Renewable Energy India (REI) Expo, Asia's largest and most influential clean energy congregation. Scheduled from October 30 to November 1, 2025, at India Expo Mart, Greater Noida, REI 2025 will once again be co-located with the 3rd edition of The Battery Show India, together advancing India's vision for a cleaner, green ...Read More >
CHENNAI: Two years after the state government issued an order to set up the Turtle Conservation and Rehabilitation Centre in Guindy Park in Chennai, Tamil Nadu Coastal Restoration Mission has floated a tender for the construction of the centre at Rs 6.30 Crore. The centre will be constructed with the fund of Tamil Nadu: Strengthening Coastal Resilience and the Economy Project (TN-SHORE), which is a World Bank-aided project. Under the new centre, a rescue and treatment centre will be set up to ...Read More >
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Game of Thrones star and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Goodwill Ambassador, has highlighted Odisha's mangrove restoration in the latest season of his global documentary series, 'An Optimist's Guide to the Planet'. The newly released season premiered on Wednesday, drawing attention to climate resilience work in India. The opening episode, titled "Protect," looks at the Enhancing Climate Resilience of India's Coastal Communities (ECRICC) initiative in Odisha's ...Read More >
New Delhi: In an unprecedented step to combat the city's worsening air quality, the Delhi government is preparing to conduct its first-ever artificial rain experiment on October 29 through cloud seeding. The initiative, led by IIT Kanpur and coordinated with IMD Pune, aims to trigger rainfall that could help cleanse the city's polluted atmosphere following Diwali celebrations. Here's what the government has planned: Announcing the project, Environment Minister Majinder Singh Sirsa said the Rs ...Read More >
New Delhi: Delhi's air quality showed minor improvement on Friday morning as the city's overall Air Quality Index (AQI) shifted from the "very poor" to "poor" category, clocking in at 290, according to the Sameer app by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). Anand Vihar Records Worst Air Quality Despite the slight relief citywide, Anand Vihar continued to suffer with the highest recorded AQI of 403, firmly in the "severe" zone. In total, 15 monitoring stations still reported "very poor" a ...Read More >
Despite unseasonal rainfall, pollution levels refuse to drop with BKC, Malad, Deonar, all in the 'very poor' AQI category The festive fervour in Mumbai on Tuesday was marred by excessive pollution and smoggy air. As the Diwali festivities continued, the city's Air Quality Index (AQI) plunged deeper into the 'very poor' zone, with thick smog settling over key neighbourhoods stretching from Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC) to Byculla and Malad. Despite the unseasonal showers across the city in the eve ...Read More >
Noida: After four consecutive days of very poor air quality, Noida saw a marked improvement due to sustained northwesterly winds, clocking up to 10 to 15 kilometre per hour (kmph) speed, that helped disperse pollutants lingering in the airshed since Diwali. On Thursday, AQI improved from 330 (very poor) the previous day to 282 (poor). The city's air quality index had worsened pre-Diwali as wind speed slowed and temperature dipped on Oct 19. On Diwali, a thick layer of haze blanketed the city -- ...Read More >
New Delhi: Haryana released additional water into the Yamuna's main channel from the Hathnikund Barrage, days before Chhath Puja, data from Central Water Commission (CWC) shows.The higher flow is expected to improve the water quality and ensure adequate flow for the festival, some experts said. An official, however, said that the move was for rejuvenating the river, "not just for Chhath Puja. It's also to maintain the river's flow and keep it clean." CWC data shows that since 5 pm on Tuesday, no ...Read More >
Gurgaon: For a brief moment on Thursday, city residents could breathe a little easier. The city's average air quality index (AQI) dropped to 208, down from 281 the previous day, according to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).The improvement, however, is only a temporary reprieve. The air will remain in the 'poor' category -- still dangerous for children, the elderly, and anyone with respiratory issues.Officials said the short-lived relief was due to stronger surface winds and clearer sk ...Read More >
Delhi water minister said the equipment, a Watermaster Classic IV, will be used to augment the Yamuna cleaning efforts and enhance the river's water-carrying capacity. Delhi water minister Parvesh Verma on Wednesday said that a state-of-the-art dredging machine from Finland will arrive in the Capital by December to aid in the desilting and dredging of Yamuna and the Najafgarh drain. Sharing a demonstration video on social media, Verma said the equipment, a Watermaster Classic IV, will be used t ...Read More >
New Delhi, Oct 23 (PTI) The Delhi government has procured an advanced machine from Finland to undertake large-scale dredging, desilting, and cleaning operations in the Yamuna river, Irrigation and Flood Control Minister Parvesh Verma said on Thursday. The machine, called Amphibious Classic 4 Multipurpose Dredger Machine, will arrive in India before December and will be operational from January, he added. According to officials, capable of operating both on land and in water, the machine "combi ...Read More >
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