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Tuesday, August 12, 2025
TopicAir quality index

Topic: Air quality index

Steps by Centre, Delhi govt not enough to curb pollution in capital, Parliamentary panel says

Parliamentary panel on urban development called for economic aid to farmers to help them buy machines that can help curb pollution because of stubble burning & hefty fines on polluters.

Toxic air from farm fires could make North India’s Covid fight deadlier

Air pollution damages lungs and other body tissues, reducing body’s ability to resist coronavirus, which may result in more severe forms of Covid.

Delhi’s air quality remains ‘very poor’, likely to improve over next 2 days

According to the Ministry of Earth Sciences' air quality monitoring agency, SAFAR, the share of stubble-burning in Delhi's PM2.5 pollution was 19 per cent on Friday.

Delhi’s air quality deteriorates, several areas record ‘severe’ levels of pollution

Significant increase in stubble fire count was observed around Haryana, Punjab, and neighbouring regions which stood at 1,213 on Thursday.

Dense fog delays trains and flights in Delhi, air quality dips too

The minimum temperature in the national capital settled at 6.4 degrees Celsius with zero visibility at Palam at 5:30 am.

Air quality in Delhi dips to ‘severe’ category, AQI crosses 400 mark

Greater Noida is the most polluted with an air quality index of 441, followed by Ghaziabad at 436 and Noida at 425.

Parliament panel on pollution sees near-full house, suggests artificial rain to help Delhi

After drawing flak for missing a meeting last week, MPs like Gautam Gambhir discussed a range of measures to curb pollution in Delhi and its neighbourhood.

SC says odd-even scheme half-baked, not a long-term solution to Delhi-NCR’s air crisis

A bench of Justices Arun Mishra and Deepak Gupta said only the middle and lower classes are affected by odd-even scheme as affluent people have a lot of cars.

Delhi’s air quality dips to ‘emergency’ category second time this year

The hazardous fog that has settled over Delhi this week has thickened, making Ghaziabad the most-polluted city in India.

On Diwali, Delhi fights poor air quality and smog

PM 2.5 and PM 10 levels stood at 266 and 234, according to Air Quality Index data.

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