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Topic: pollution

Delhi brought GRAP reactively after AQI crossed limit—13 out of 17 times this winter

Akanksha Mishra -
According to experts, GRAP is being treated as the sole panacea of Delhi’s air pollution crisis, despite not being designed to do so.

Bhiwadi pollution nightmare is worse than Delhi. Nobody wants to talk about it

+TFP Vanita Bhatnagar -
Rajasthan’s Bhiwadi has grown into an industrial and real-estate hub, but air quality and livability are collapsing. The pattern is repeating across India's industrial towns.

How Jupiter saved the Earth from being sucked into the Sun & seahorses show how male pregnancies work

Akanksha Mishra -
ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

Farmers outwitting satellite detection? Images show stubble burning peak post-afternoon hours

Soumya Pillai -
Analysis of images from South Korea’s geostationary satellite GEO-KOMPSAT-2A, which takes pictures every 5 minutes, shows farm fires have now merely shifted to post-afternoon hours.

NGT’s golden era was over long ago. Then came the age of delays, fines, committee raj

Apoorva Mandhani -
What was a grand strategy to create a parallel environmental structure for grievance and unclog the Supreme Court has fallen woefully short of its promise and potential.

Delhi-NCR’s air pollution battle is chaotic, confused. Standardised penalty is a good start

ThePrint Team -
ThePrint view on the most important issues

How to end plastic pollution, forever

Douglas McCauley -
Without intervention, the world would generate a 3.5-kilometre-high mountain of plastic litter that would bury the entire island of Manhattan.

Aren’t poverty and need the greatest polluters? Indira Gandhi

Indira Gandhi -
On 14 June 1972, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's speech at the UN conference on environment in Stockholm called out the hypocrisy of rich nations that advanced due to industrialisation by exploiting natural resources and labour of colonised countries but now expect developing nations to be mindful of not causing damage to the environment.

Mumbai doesn’t want to become Delhi. BMC, Bombay High court crack down on AQI

+TFP Purva Chitnis -
BMC has issued ban upon ban in the past month. It has prohibited garbage burning, is cracking down on cement mixing factors, and is pulling up builders for flouting rules.

This is how London tackled air pollution. Delhi can learn

Shashi Verma -
Although London still does not meet WHO guidelines on air quality, the worst air quality days in the city are better than the best days in Delhi.
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Indian govt says will borrow Rs 8.2 trillion in first-half of next fiscal year

Pratigya Vajpayee -
The administration trimmed its gross borrowing program to 16.09 trillion rupees from 17.2 trillion rupees announced in the budget on Feb. 1.

Defence

India greenlights procurement of 5 more S-400 air defence systems from Russia

Snehesh Alex Philip -
In FY 2025-26, AoN for 55 proposals amounting to Rs 6.73 lakh cr has been accorded by DAC. Both the quantum of AoN given and capital contracts signed, so far, have been the highest in any FY.

National Interest

The Vishwaguru delusion, mine vs yours, is ruining our view of the world

Shekhar Gupta -
One side thinks India is punching way above its weight. The other thinks Modi has undermined India and it punches below its strength. Both are wrong.

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