Haryana Smog

Delhi and neighbouring areas today continued to remain under a thick blanket of haze as air quality in the region continued to deteriorate further, largely due to farm fires in neighbouring Haryana and Punjab.The Delhi government has already banned use of firecrackers in view of the persistently high pollution and smog levels that experts believe p...

More than 80 farmers have been arrested in Punjab for starting fires that contributed to the recent pollution crisis in New Delhi and other cities, officials said Thursday.

Delhi is worse than Faridabad in terms of cleanliness, the Supreme Court said today, and questioned how the World Bank Funds are spent by the administration. The Chief Secretary, Vijay Dev, was vehemently admonished by the top court, which was hearing a petition from the pollution-control body Environment Pollution Control Authority or EPCA.

The pollution in Delhi and its adjoining areas reaching a critical stage, the centre indicated that it will keep tabs on the matter. PK Mishra, the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister, reviewed the situation this evening with senior officials from Punjab, Haryana and Delhi. Pollution levels peaked to a three-year high that made breathing diff...

Harpal Singh struck a match and watched his fields burn, the acrid smoke drifting toward New Delhi where a lethal smog cocktail is once again intensifying over the world's most polluted megacity.

Pollution in Delhi worsened today as the air quality reached the 'unhealthy' category as stubble burning in Punjab and Haryana has begun. Burning of paddy straw every year in the months of October and November in Punjab and Haryana is one of the major contributors of air pollution in Delhi and its neighbouring cities. The smoke and fine particulate...

The Centre today told the Supreme Court that the report of a sub-committee on prevention of stubble burning in three states including Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh has been submitted and accepted by a high-level task force constituted by it.

The odd-even scheme will be implemented in Delhi without exceptions, the Arvind Kejriwal government has said in an action plan submitted to the National Green Tribunal

The Power Ministry directed the largest utility NTPC Ltd to blend crop residue with coal at its power plants, in a bid to reduce stubble burning on agricultural lands which is clouding Delhi with smog.

Delhi and adjoining areas in the NCR have been engulfed in a blanket of smog for over a week in November. The air quality index or AQI, which measures the amount of the pollutant PM2.5 and other particles in the air, had plummeted to levels close to 500 which falls under the 'hazardous' category. With warnings of apublic health emergency declared, ...

One down, another to go. Haryana has pledged its assistance to Delhi in fighting the toxic smog that has covered the city for over a week, leading doctors to declare a public health crisis. Punjab, the other state whose actions impact the filthy air, has so far ignored Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's entreaty for a meeting to discuss possibl...

As Delhi chokes on filthy air, a crucial meeting between its Chief Minister, Arvind Kejriwal, and his counterpart from Haryana, ML Khattar, has yet to be drawn up. Bafflingly, both leaders publicly say that they are willing to meet - but the other side seems unavailable.

According to ANI, all government and private schools in Haryana's Gurugram will remain closed tomorrow due to the continuing smog situation.

After Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal attributed the dense, deadly smog covering the capital largely to stubble burning in neighbouring states and suggested discussions with his counterparts in Punjab and Haryana to find economically viable alternatives to burning of crop residue, a concerned Pakistan has also taken necessary steps.

The lethal smog over Delhi has deteriorated Delhi Pollution Air Quality Index and brought on its wings a full-blown tussle with its neighbouring states - at the heart of which is stubble burning by farmers in Haryana and Punjab.

Delhi and neighbouring areas today continued to remain under a thick blanket of haze as air quality in the region continued to deteriorate further, largely due to farm fires in neighbouring Haryana and Punjab.The Delhi government has already banned use of firecrackers in view of the persistently high pollution and smog levels that experts believe p...

More than 80 farmers have been arrested in Punjab for starting fires that contributed to the recent pollution crisis in New Delhi and other cities, officials said Thursday.

Delhi is worse than Faridabad in terms of cleanliness, the Supreme Court said today, and questioned how the World Bank Funds are spent by the administration. The Chief Secretary, Vijay Dev, was vehemently admonished by the top court, which was hearing a petition from the pollution-control body Environment Pollution Control Authority or EPCA.

The pollution in Delhi and its adjoining areas reaching a critical stage, the centre indicated that it will keep tabs on the matter. PK Mishra, the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister, reviewed the situation this evening with senior officials from Punjab, Haryana and Delhi. Pollution levels peaked to a three-year high that made breathing diff...

Harpal Singh struck a match and watched his fields burn, the acrid smoke drifting toward New Delhi where a lethal smog cocktail is once again intensifying over the world's most polluted megacity.

Pollution in Delhi worsened today as the air quality reached the 'unhealthy' category as stubble burning in Punjab and Haryana has begun. Burning of paddy straw every year in the months of October and November in Punjab and Haryana is one of the major contributors of air pollution in Delhi and its neighbouring cities. The smoke and fine particulate...

The Centre today told the Supreme Court that the report of a sub-committee on prevention of stubble burning in three states including Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh has been submitted and accepted by a high-level task force constituted by it.

The odd-even scheme will be implemented in Delhi without exceptions, the Arvind Kejriwal government has said in an action plan submitted to the National Green Tribunal

The Power Ministry directed the largest utility NTPC Ltd to blend crop residue with coal at its power plants, in a bid to reduce stubble burning on agricultural lands which is clouding Delhi with smog.

Delhi and adjoining areas in the NCR have been engulfed in a blanket of smog for over a week in November. The air quality index or AQI, which measures the amount of the pollutant PM2.5 and other particles in the air, had plummeted to levels close to 500 which falls under the 'hazardous' category. With warnings of apublic health emergency declared, ...

One down, another to go. Haryana has pledged its assistance to Delhi in fighting the toxic smog that has covered the city for over a week, leading doctors to declare a public health crisis. Punjab, the other state whose actions impact the filthy air, has so far ignored Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's entreaty for a meeting to discuss possibl...

As Delhi chokes on filthy air, a crucial meeting between its Chief Minister, Arvind Kejriwal, and his counterpart from Haryana, ML Khattar, has yet to be drawn up. Bafflingly, both leaders publicly say that they are willing to meet - but the other side seems unavailable.

According to ANI, all government and private schools in Haryana's Gurugram will remain closed tomorrow due to the continuing smog situation.

After Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal attributed the dense, deadly smog covering the capital largely to stubble burning in neighbouring states and suggested discussions with his counterparts in Punjab and Haryana to find economically viable alternatives to burning of crop residue, a concerned Pakistan has also taken necessary steps.

The lethal smog over Delhi has deteriorated Delhi Pollution Air Quality Index and brought on its wings a full-blown tussle with its neighbouring states - at the heart of which is stubble burning by farmers in Haryana and Punjab.