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Tuesday, November 11, 2025
TopicAir pollution

Topic: air pollution

Air pollution is actually making our children dumber

This toxic air may be damaging the brains of an entire generation of Chinese and Indian children. A report by the World Bank found that test scores were lower in these countries than in the developed world.

A new material can now trap pollutant, convert it into nitric acid for use in agriculture

Scientists at University of Manchester have developed this new material that can capture nitrogen dioxide, an air pollutant, from car exhausts.

The Lahore smog isn’t Indian farmers’ fault alone. Pakistan should look within

The interesting thing about the ‘Lahore Smog’ is that the air pollution situation is neither limited to Lahore nor is it technically smog.

Kejriwal a role model for US politicians, Indian Railway’s best friend & ‘godi’ media

The most politically correct and incorrect tweets of the day from across the political spectrum.

Blame-games and band-aids: Delhi is a classic example of how not to fight air pollution

We are living through the doomsday. Perhaps, only aliens can save us now.

How Kolkata with electric buses and ferries plans to fight air pollution

Kolkata averaged a PM 2.5 concentration of 85.4 micrograms per cubic metre of air in 2018, more than eight times the recommended limit.

Air pollution increases risk of brain cancer by 10 per cent, says new Canadian study

The study establishes a significant link between the newly-emerging threat of PM0.1 to an increase in brain cancer.

Look to Japanese tech to fight pollution: Supreme Court tells Centre as Delhi air gets worse

Delhi's air quality Wednesday neared the "emergency" zone for the second time in a fortnight, leading the Supreme Court to stress on finding a permanent solution to the pollution crisis.

Curbing Delhi pollution is govts’ job. Supreme Court must not burn its hand in stubble fire

Supreme Court needs to wake up and see its orders banning stubble burning in Haryana and Punjab don’t do anything on the ground.

Toxic air isn’t limited to Delhi — Chennai & other southern cities too gasping for breath

While Chennai saw unexpected episodes of smog last week, high PM levels were noted in Bengaluru and cities in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh too.

On Camera

BBC scandal: Britain’s elite establishment is rapidly sinking

The impact of all this upheaval is unmooring. We search for the BBC to confirm that Britain still exists and find it missing.

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.