Kolkata: In a rare and worrying development, Kolkata has overtaken Delhi in air pollution levels, with the city recording hazardous air quality on Tuesday night. The Air Quality Index (AQI) at Victoria Memorial — located…
Chandigarh: Saying that official figures miss over 90 per cent of large farm fires in Haryana and Punjab as farmers shift burning timings, a new report on Monday revealed a critical blind spot in India’s…
‘ New Delhi: “Guru Nanak Dev Ji taught us that wind is the Guru, water is the father, and the earth is the mother. I come from Punjab, also known as the land of five…
Geneva: Devastating monsoon rains and tropical cyclones have unleashed catastrophic flooding across parts of South and Southeast Asia, killing hundreds of people, displacing communities and causing major economic disruption, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)…
New Delhi; As Delhi-NCR’s air quality continues to deteriorate, Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, on Friday said that India’s children are choking due to toxic air and questioned Prime…
Johannesburg: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday proposed the setting up of an IBSA (India, Brazil, South Africa) Fund for Climate Resilient Agriculture to further advance South-South cooperation. In his address at the IBSA leaders…
New Delhi: With Delhi’s air quality turning toxic, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) on Saturday tightened pollution-control measures, directing that several restrictions currently reserved for the ‘Severe’ category under GRAP Stage IV be implemented…
New Delhi: As the air quality dipped in Delhi-NCR, new rules bringing some stringent restrictions from the GRAP-IV stage under GRAP-III were notified by the CAQM, suggesting work-from-home for half the staff in government and…
Bhopal/Sheopur: In a major achievement for India’s ambitious ‘Cheetah Reintroduction (translocation) Project’, an India-born female cheetah named ‘Mukhi’ has given birth to five healthy cubs at Kuno National Park, marking the first instance of successful…
Belem (Brazil): Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Bhupender Yadav, called on developed nations to demonstrate greater climate ambition and honour their commitments and stressed that the climate technology “must be free from…
