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Keep Your Little Ones Away From Smog Woes
Children are more sensitive to the effects of smog and air pollution than adults. Here are some practical tips for you to follow to protect your kids from the potential health effects. ....
Delhi's Local Pollution Sources Also Need To Be Dealt With: CPCB
The Central Pollution Control Board on Friday said that open dumping of garbage, construction-demolition activity, unpaved roads, and re-suspension of road dust are the major local sources contributing to Delhi's air pollution at a time when the contribution of stubble burning to the crisis has plummeted to merely one per cent. ....
Food That Helps Build Resistance Against Air Pollution
The air that we all are breathing has reached dangerous levels of pollution yet again. People with no known history of respiratory problems are visiting hospital emergency rooms. ....
BJP Wins 6 Of 9 Seats In UP Council Polls
The BJP has won six out of the nine seats in the graduate and the teachers' constituencies where results have been declared. ....
Delhi Air Quality Turning 'severe' Again
Despite negligible stubble burning, there seems to be no respite from the pollution in the national capital as the air quality index inched closer to the "severe" category on Tuesday afternoon. ....
Centre To SC: Since Dec 3 Stubble Burning Not An Issue For Pollution In Delhi
The Centre on Monday informed the Supreme Court that since December 3, stubble burning is not an issue for air pollution in Delhi. The top court asked the Centre to apprise it of the steps taken so far by the Commission of Air Quality in the National Capital Region and adjoining areas to address air pollution.....
No Alliance With BJP Ahead Of 2022 Polls: MGP
The Goa-based Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) which has had a 'blow hot, blow cold' relationship with the ruling BJP in the recent past has ruled out a pre-poll alliance with the saffron party for the 2022 Legislative Assembly polls. ....
Delhi's Air Quality Turns Severe, To Improve On Christmas
The pollution levels in the national capital shot up on Wednesday and mounted to severe category, prompting the Ministry of Earth Sciences to advise people to avoid outdoor physical activities and wear N-95 or P-100 respirators. ....
Delhi's Air Quality Remains Severe For 3rd Consecutive Day
National capital's air quality remained in the severe category for the third consecutive day on Thursday as calm winds and low ventilation halted the dispersion of accumulated pollutants. ....
J&K DDC Polls Show Democracy Is Alive & Kicking In Kashmir
In the results declared on Tuesday, the Kashmiris have experienced arguably their cleanest ever democratic process, after the Assembly elections of 1977, even as no political party reached close to the half-way mark of 140 seats in the first elections for District Development Councils (DDCs) in the Union Territory. ....
