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TopicDelhi air pollution

Topic: Delhi air pollution

Fight for clean air must continue, says MC Mehta as SC closes 40-year-old case

A Supreme Court bench, comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul Pancholi, closed the lawsuit that reshaped the country’s approach to pollution.

Have pollution policies helped Delhi AQI? What the decade’s data shows

Delhi’s average winter air quality graph over the past 10 years is not linear. But when all factors are taken into account, one thing is unmistakably clear.

Delhi has too many actors to tackle air pollution. Beijing offers an alternative

India cannot simply copy Beijing’s political model, but it can adapt key governance principles.

Photos of the week: A Delhi demolition, and persimmons in plenty

New Delhi: From protests against a demolition drive near Faiz-e-Elahi Masjid at Turkman Gate inDelhi to Kullu’s persimmon revolution delivering lakhs in profit to...

Photos of the week: From anti-Bangladesh protest over Hindu man’s lynching, to a smoggy Delhi

In PhotosOfTheWeek, we bring you pictures clicked by ThePrint’s photojournalists, video journalists and reporters this past week.

Climate crisis in India is being normalised. Country’s poor are paying the price

The acceptance that this is just how things are now is worrying. That temperatures will rise, water will run out, air will choke us—and we will simply adjust.

Delhi’s air is making Nitin Gadkari sick. ‘If I live here for 2 days, I get throat infection’

Nitin Gadkari, Rajya Sabha MP Sudhanshu Trivedi, Lieutenant General VG Khandare came together to launch Uday Mahurkar's new book at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts.

No coal, no flavour—Delhi’s tandoor ban is hurting the chicken & the customers

Treating a small roadside tandoor as equivalent to an industrial burner is fundamentally flawed, said food historian Sadaf Hussain.

Average Malayali lives 10 yrs more than those in BJP-ruled UP, Bihar—CPI(M)’s Brittas on air pollution

In a candid conversation with ThePrint, CPI (M)’s Rajya Sabha MP John Brittas also talked about the Left’s electoral setbacks in Kerala local body polls.

Delhi’s air quality stays in ‘severe’ zone for 3rd straight day, calm winds & moisture to blame

The city also recorded its first spell of fog Monday. Visibility as low as 50 metres early in the morning disrupted dozens of flights across the region.

On Camera

A stronger Iran has emerged from the rubble. US learned the lesson 40 days late

The US and Israel’s assassinations of Iranian leadership ended up bestowing martyrdom on those killed. Shias saw the deaths as a continuity of martyrdom from the Battle of Karbala.

Data centre gold rush risks blackouts, central electricity body warns states against tripping grids

India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.

Theaterisation proposal to be shared with defence ministry in a week or so—CDS Gen Anil Chauhan

Theaterisation, which aims to divide the forces into three theatres with specific areas of responsibility, will become the single most far-reaching reform that the Indian military has witnessed since independence.

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.