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Friday, May 3, 2024
TopicDelhi air pollution

Topic: Delhi air pollution

Toxic air adds to India’s woes as economy goes from bad to worse

The economic slowdown is spreading and on top of it toxic air in north India is driving away tourists, disrupting flights and shutting schools.

Govts have forgotten concept of welfare: Supreme Court slams states for air pollution crisis

Squarely blaming the Centre and state governments, the Supreme Court said they had no right to be in power if they weren't bothered about the people.

‘Piquant’ pollution & ‘statutory mockery’ — SC puzzles with its Delhi smog order

Supreme Court weighed in on the pollution crisis after Delhi and parts of NCR experienced deep smog this weekend.

Not just good air, tourists also evade Delhi

Booking inquiries for hotels and flights to New Delhi have slumped since Diwali on 27 October, experts say.

Delhi’s political pollutants, Modi’s ‘national interest’ & a mistaken call to Sanjay Raut

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Delhi air quality improves to ‘very poor’, but it’s not due to odd-even traffic rule

Government's pollution monitoring system SAFAR had predicted Sunday that air quality will improve during the week.

Hold government accountable for Delhi air pollution but also punish selfish behaviour

We suffer a societal failure when we cannot muster up the minimum cooperation necessary to solve a common problem.

BJP’s Vijay Goel defies odd-even rule in ‘symbolic protest’, gets Rs 4,000 fine & flowers

Delhi transport minister Kailash Gahlot met Vijay Goel with a bouquet of flowers and urged him to follow the scheme, which the BJP leader dismissed as an election stunt.

Nearly 200 fined on ‘successful’ first day of Delhi govt’s odd-even scheme

The Delih govt pressed in to service 6,000 buses, including 650 private vehicles, to service the additional number of commuters forced to leave their cars at home.

Modi govt is clueless about Indian economy, lacks talent to fix it, says Shekhar Gupta

At ThePrint’s Democracy Wall in Sonipat, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta spoke on a wide range of topics — free speech, Pakistan & Delhi’s notorious smog.

On Camera

Two documents, Modi-Macron visits—India-France defence partnership is touching new heights

Horizon 2047 signed during Modi's visit to France in July 2023 and the defence industrial roadmap during Macron’s visit to India in January 2024 guide the strategic bonhomie between the two countries.

How govt brought Vodafone Idea back from the brink & earned a neat profit in the process

In 2021, the government allowed telcos to convert interest on deferred spectrum payments and AGR dues into equity. This made it the single largest stakeholder in Vodafone Idea.

China builds road through Shaksgam Valley, India registers protest

New Delhi has, in past, too, objected to Chinese construction activities in Shaksgam Valley. Work in this strategic region gathered pace after the 2017 Doklam stand-off.

Frontrunner is letting the challenger define this poll campaign. Modi still hasn’t found a big theme

A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.