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Topic: NCAP

25 of 130 cities under National Clean Air Programme see spike in pollution levels

Soumya Pillai -
Govt launched the programme with aim of improving air quality in 130 cities. A majority of the cities did witness a reduction in PM10 levels, Lok Sabha was informed.

City acing clean air action plan at bottom of PM10 levels survey? CSE points to govt data opacity

Akanksha Mishra -
NCAP focuses only on PM10 reduction, and 64% of all funds are used for dust control measures, finds CSE; recommends green municipal bonds and transparency in SVS ranking criteria.

India’s National Clean Air Programme hasn’t curbed pollution. It needs Swachh Bharat-like push

Angelica Zocchi -
The National Clean Air Programme should evolve beyond just guidelines and become a mission that ties financial incentives to air quality outcomes.

India readying Bharat NCAP for safer cars but curbing violations can make big difference too

Kushan Mitra -
The New Car Assessment Programme or NCAP is a standard of car-safety testing. It involves crashing a brand-new vehicle to rate it on the safety scale.

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Opinion

Air purifiers are the new water filters. Delhi has quietly accepted a crisis

Stela Dey -
The affluent in Delhi, armed with airtight windows, multiple purifiers, and humidifiers, have normalised a way of life that once seemed dystopian.

There’s a new M-Y formula at work in Bihar this time

Sitharaman’s eighth Budget faces fiscal headwinds — and a calendar dilemma

Economy

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

Udit Bubna -
MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

Defence

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

Keshav Padmanabhan -
At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

National Interest

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Shekhar Gupta -
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.

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