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Tuesday, August 26, 2025
TopicDelhi pollution

Topic: Delhi pollution

Kejriwal says Delhi pollution levels dipped due to govt initiatives, unveils winter action plan

The Delhi CM said govt will deploy 530 water sprinklers to prevent dust pollution and 385 teams will check vehicles’ pollution certificates and prevent plying of overage cars.

Only 50% of Delhi govt’s environment fund used in 7 yrs, none of it for Pollution Control Committee

Most of expenditure from Rs 1,464 cr 'environmental compensation charge' fund has gone towards Delhi-Meerut RRTS, yet to be used for activities under Delhi's Pollution Control Committee.

‘With lamps, not crackers’: Delhi govt bans firecrackers ahead of Diwali to combat winter pollution

A similar ban has been in place for the last few years, but was also defied by many residents who burst crackers on Diwali.

Why make buses electric when no one uses them? Delhi’s EV roadmap is hotly contested

Civil engineering professors, climate researchers and transport specialists pushed for behavioural changes and not just structural changes at an event that laid out Delhi's EV roadmap.

Delhi pollution making your skin sound the first alarm. But you can fix it

Human skin has adapted to being the frontline defence for the body. If there is an ailment on the inside, the skin will always reflect it first.

TV news is in love with AAP, it’s finding fault in their stars—from Kejriwal to Sisodia

Is the extensive TV news coverage it receives building up AAP or putting it down?

How to ‘trigger’ a Pakistani & ‘whitewashing’ a poll-bound hospital

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

Armed with science & tech solutions, govt & IIT-Delhi come together to fight air pollution

Office of Principal Scientific Advisor and IIT are working with tech & industry partners to monitor the city's AQI. Their pilot project will run in Delhi NCR from Nov '22 to Feb '23.

Municipal corporations should be on the frontlines of India’s air pollution battle

Citizens, civil society, and industry should be at the heart of any intervention designed to mitigate air pollution. Local governments must engage with citizens.

Dip in Delhi pollution levels this Diwali a relief but no cause for congratulating AAP govt

ThePrint view on the most important issues this week.

On Camera

India will absorb Trump tariff impact due to its Achilles’ heel

Like China, India remains a big domestic market, which will continue to attract investment, but the US tariffs will make India unattractive for future investments.

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

‘Peace without power Utopian, lessons from Op Sindoor being implemented’—CDS inaugurates Ran Samvad

India’s 1st tri-service seminar, on the lines of Shangri-La Dialogue, kicks off in Mhow, with top military officers & defence attaches from several countries in attendance.

That Oval Office picture for ages deserves closer Indian reading, with a geopolitical lens

Putin sees this as a victory. Europeans have decided to deal with Trump on his terms for the sake of the larger Western alliance. We look at the lessons for us in India.