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AI Cameras, QR Codes: Delhi's New Tech Push To Battle Dust Pollution
The Delhi Pollution Control Committee will launch "DUST Portal 2.0" next week, allowing authorities to monitor construction activity across the city round the clock.
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Wearables Could Track Health Risks Using Location Data And Surveys: Study
Wearable devices, along with location data from smartphones and real-time surveys, could help capture environmental exposures and their immediate physical and emotional effects, a new pilot study has shown.
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Gujarat Students Make Breakthrough: Glow-In-The-Dark Bacteria Discovered
Bioluminescent bacteria hold potential for future applications in environmental conservation, pollution monitoring, and as bio-indicators.
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Delhi To Launch Real-Time Yamuna Water Quality Tracking From May
The monitors will be installed across six sites - Palla, ISBT Bridge, ITO, Nizamuddin Bridge, Okhla Barrage and Asgarpur.
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How Delhi Plans To Tackle Water Shortage, Yamuna Pollution This Summer
Delhi's Summer Action Plan 2026-27 focuses on supply, quality monitoring, and Yamuna river protection.
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Bengaluru Lake Crisis: No Potable Water In India's 'Silicon Valley'
According to data published by the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board, water quality analysis conducted across 147 monitoring locations between April and November 2025 shows that not a single lake in the city consistently met potable or safe bat
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Delhi's Air Quality In 'Very Poor' Category, AQI Slips To 332
After two days of brief relief, the national capital's air quality slipped back into the 'very poor' category at 332, with several monitoring stations recording 'severe' pollution levels.
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Men Record Higher Lung Deposition Of Air Pollutants In Delhi, Says Study
Researchers at Netaji Subhas University of Technology, Delhi, analysed data from 39 air quality monitoring stations across Delhi between 2019 and 2023.
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Car-Pooling App, Smog-Eating Surfaces: Inside Delhi's Pollution Control Plan
The Delhi government will overhaul the Pollution Under Control Certificate (PUCC) system with third-party monitoring, develop a car-pooling app to reduce vehicular congestion, Environment Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa announced.
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Delhi Pollution Worsens, Air Quality Turns Severe, Thick Smog Covers City
Delhi Air Pollution: All 40 monitoring stations in Delhi show 'red', meaning AQI in the 'severe' category. Rohini in North West Delhi recorded AQI of 499, followed by Jahangirpuri and Vivek Vihar reporting AQI at 495.
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Farm Fires Didn't End, They Just Moved To Afternoon: Satellite Data Analysis
Claims of a nearly 90% drop in stubble burning in Punjab and Haryana - a key contributor to pollution in Delhi-NCR - have been challenged by a new multi-satellite analysis, revealing that the decline is a result of a gap in India's monitoring system.
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Arvind Kejriwal's Sharp Takedown Of Rekha Gupta's "AQI Is A Temperature" Remark
Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta's remarks about the government using mist sprayers to contain pollution at hotspots has drawn a stinging response from her predecessor Arvind Kejriwal.
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Dyson HushJet Purifier Compact Launched in India With Electrostatic Filter, AQI Indicator, New HushJet Nozzle Design
The Dyson HushJet Purifier Compact air purifier has been launched in India. It has a star-shaped HushJet Entrainment Nozzle and offers electrostatic filtration. It is said to capture 99.97 percent of particles as small as 0.3 microns. It has an LCD screen to show real-time indoor air quality and the concentration of particles being filtered. It can...
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On Pollution, Minister Points To Central Body, Silent On Delhi Government Role
A monitoring mechanism has been put in place to oversee the implementation of 95 directions of the Centre-appointed Commission for Air Quality Management, Union minister Bhupender Yadav told the Lok Sabha today.
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Why Doesn't India Report Air Quality (AQI) Measure Beyond 500?
The air quality index (AQI) is a public health tool designed to communicate air pollution levels or the quality of air in simple terms.
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AI Cameras, QR Codes: Delhi's New Tech Push To Battle Dust Pollution
The Delhi Pollution Control Committee will launch "DUST Portal 2.0" next week, allowing authorities to monitor construction activity across the city round the clock.
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Wearables Could Track Health Risks Using Location Data And Surveys: Study
Wearable devices, along with location data from smartphones and real-time surveys, could help capture environmental exposures and their immediate physical and emotional effects, a new pilot study has shown.
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Gujarat Students Make Breakthrough: Glow-In-The-Dark Bacteria Discovered
Bioluminescent bacteria hold potential for future applications in environmental conservation, pollution monitoring, and as bio-indicators.
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Delhi To Launch Real-Time Yamuna Water Quality Tracking From May
The monitors will be installed across six sites - Palla, ISBT Bridge, ITO, Nizamuddin Bridge, Okhla Barrage and Asgarpur.
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How Delhi Plans To Tackle Water Shortage, Yamuna Pollution This Summer
Delhi's Summer Action Plan 2026-27 focuses on supply, quality monitoring, and Yamuna river protection.
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Bengaluru Lake Crisis: No Potable Water In India's 'Silicon Valley'
According to data published by the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board, water quality analysis conducted across 147 monitoring locations between April and November 2025 shows that not a single lake in the city consistently met potable or safe bat
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Delhi's Air Quality In 'Very Poor' Category, AQI Slips To 332
After two days of brief relief, the national capital's air quality slipped back into the 'very poor' category at 332, with several monitoring stations recording 'severe' pollution levels.
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Men Record Higher Lung Deposition Of Air Pollutants In Delhi, Says Study
Researchers at Netaji Subhas University of Technology, Delhi, analysed data from 39 air quality monitoring stations across Delhi between 2019 and 2023.
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Car-Pooling App, Smog-Eating Surfaces: Inside Delhi's Pollution Control Plan
The Delhi government will overhaul the Pollution Under Control Certificate (PUCC) system with third-party monitoring, develop a car-pooling app to reduce vehicular congestion, Environment Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa announced.
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Delhi Pollution Worsens, Air Quality Turns Severe, Thick Smog Covers City
Delhi Air Pollution: All 40 monitoring stations in Delhi show 'red', meaning AQI in the 'severe' category. Rohini in North West Delhi recorded AQI of 499, followed by Jahangirpuri and Vivek Vihar reporting AQI at 495.
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Farm Fires Didn't End, They Just Moved To Afternoon: Satellite Data Analysis
Claims of a nearly 90% drop in stubble burning in Punjab and Haryana - a key contributor to pollution in Delhi-NCR - have been challenged by a new multi-satellite analysis, revealing that the decline is a result of a gap in India's monitoring system.
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Arvind Kejriwal's Sharp Takedown Of Rekha Gupta's "AQI Is A Temperature" Remark
Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta's remarks about the government using mist sprayers to contain pollution at hotspots has drawn a stinging response from her predecessor Arvind Kejriwal.
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Dyson HushJet Purifier Compact Launched in India With Electrostatic Filter, AQI Indicator, New HushJet Nozzle Design
The Dyson HushJet Purifier Compact air purifier has been launched in India. It has a star-shaped HushJet Entrainment Nozzle and offers electrostatic filtration. It is said to capture 99.97 percent of particles as small as 0.3 microns. It has an LCD screen to show real-time indoor air quality and the concentration of particles being filtered. It can...
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On Pollution, Minister Points To Central Body, Silent On Delhi Government Role
A monitoring mechanism has been put in place to oversee the implementation of 95 directions of the Centre-appointed Commission for Air Quality Management, Union minister Bhupender Yadav told the Lok Sabha today.
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Why Doesn't India Report Air Quality (AQI) Measure Beyond 500?
The air quality index (AQI) is a public health tool designed to communicate air pollution levels or the quality of air in simple terms.
