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Wednesday, November 26, 2025
TopicOdd-even

Topic: odd-even

Bring odd-even back in Delhi. It has healing properties

I am not saying Odd-Even is the solution, but it's a long-term measure that should be normalised in cities choking from congestion. What's happening to our cities—not just Delhi—is unsustainable.

Delhi AQI close to ‘severe plus’ category at 437, odd-even scheme might return

Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai had mentioned the possibility of the return of the odd-even car rationing measure if the AQI crosses the 450-mark.

‘Odd-even’ in emergency only, Delhi will try other ways to tackle air pollution: Minister Rai

As winter onset brings peak pollution phase, environment minister Gopal Rai explains government's stress on turning off car engines at traffic signals, bio-decomposers & monitoring smog tower inputs.

Vendors or buyers, no one can afford social distancing at Delhi’s wholesale vegetable markets

As odd-even rule kicks in amid lockdown, fruit & vegetable wholesale markets are also staring at rotting produce & huge losses.

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.

Delhi pollution crisis turns into political issue, and it’s not good news for Kejriwal

Sheila Dikshit won on her air pollution track record in 2003 Delhi election. Can Arvind Kejriwal do the same in 2020?

Delhi’s odd-even scheme was a 50-50 bet that ended as a 100% failure

In research published in a peer-reviewed science journal, Indian experts blame the multiple exemptions granted, including to two-wheelers.

As Delhi air quality improves, NGT lifts ban on construction

All previous NGT orders, including on odd-even exemptions, will stand; Delhi, UP, Punjab, and Haryana asked to chalk out comprehensive action plan in two weeks.

Talk Point: A representative govt can’t ignore women’s security in a city like Delhi

The government's responsibility is to ensure that those who are restricted from driving private vehicles, should have alternative modes of transport.

Talk Point: Scientifically, exemptions defeat the purpose of odd-even

The reason why exemptions are given is because our public transport is unable to handle the demand, and is considered unsafe.

On Camera

New labour codes make India’s workforce competitive with China—and build Viksit Bharat

By consolidating 29 laws into four codes, compliance is streamlined and regulations are simplified, improving “ease of doing business”. This is bound to improve investor confidence.

Vehicles, TVs, mobile phones—PM EAC report shows rural India is catching up with urban consumers

Rural ownership of motor vehicles jumped from 19 percent in 2011-2012 to 59 percent in 2023-2024, while urban rose from 40 percent to 68 percent during the same time period, study by two members of PM-EAC says.

General secrets from frozen peaks: A Kargil veteran reveals what politically correct writers left out

At the Jindal Literature Festival, Maj Gen (Retd) Lakhwinder Singh reveals secrets from 25 years ago, speaking about the decision that outwitted Musharraf and changed the course of the war. 

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.