Despite their scientific-sounding names, air-cleaning technologies don't remove all the indoor air pollutants and many even generate undesirable chemicals like ozone.
A smog tower installed near the Shivaji Stadium Metro station by the Delhi govt has been touted by it as the first in India. But there are already such towers in India.
To be effective against high pollution levels, purifiers need to run almost constantly and their filters need replacing every few months. Those components often wind up in a landfill.
Companies that manufacture the air-purifier packages claim they can offer protection against airborne afflictions such as influenza, cold and flu, allergy, but not Covid.
Godrej claims its apartments have 10 times purer air than outside, but they also cost a few lakhs more than standard apartments in the same Gurugram sector.
Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.
Bengaluru-based SSS Defence has made public its bid for a major foreign military contract, targeting UK’s ambitious SA80 successor programme with its home-tested weapons.
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