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Saturday, August 30, 2025
TopicAnti-smog tower

Topic: anti-smog tower

Could cloud seeding help Delhi breathe easier? Here’s why it’s up in the air

Cloud seeding has been around for 100+ years, but scientific validity & environmental impact are still debated. Delhi govt exploring possibility of inducing rain to combat pollution.

After SC order, Delhi govt sends team to inspect shut Connaught Place smog tower

Delhi's Air Quality Index (AQI) stood at 421,in the severe category, as smoke from stubble burning accounts for one-third of the pollution.

Delhi to get another smog tower near Anand Vihar metro station

The structure is dedicated to the public under the 'National Clean Air Program' and is designed as large-scale air purifiers to reduce pollution particles in the city.

India’s first smog tower inaugurated in Delhi’s Connaught Place, says Arvind Kejriwal

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal said the tower has been set up as a pilot project and more smog towers will be installed if this is successful.

Anti-smog towers, the SC solution to Delhi air pollution, not ready for immediate use

Supreme Court has asked Delhi and central govts to install anti-smog towers across Delhi and submit a plan regarding this within 10 days.

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From Vedanta, India turned to Nehruvian socialism and buried its liberal roots: Sharad Joshi

An Indian Hitler will have to be exceptionally lucky to survive for any length of time. This much hope ought to be enough for seekers of liberty and equality, wrote Sharad Anantrao Joshi, president of Swatantra Bharat Paksh party, in 1995.

Easy loans, uneasy ‘debt traps’. Women harassed by private lenders ask ‘who will restore lost dignity?’

A public meeting, where the women voiced their protest, took place this month in Delhi, grounded on the findings of an AIDWA survey, covering 9,000 women borrowers.

Ahead of SCO meet, Russia & China stage maiden joint submarine patrol in Sea of Japan, East China Sea

Joint submarine patrol ‘covered more than 2,000 nautical miles’ and was joined by Russian support vessels. Beijing maintains exercise ‘not directed against any third party’.

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.