Stubble Burning

Sanju, 24, who goes by one name, is among several hundred gig workers in Haryana -- all of them women -- trying to reverse that trend.

All cases against protesting farmers - both in connection with the farm laws agitations and over stubble burning - sources said Wednesday, as part of a revised government proposal urging thousands of farmers to stand down the 15+ months agitation.

After Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar informed that the Centre has decriminalised stubble burning, Bharatiya Kisan Union (Haryana) president Gurnam Singh Chaduni said that those are mere words and nothing has been given in writing yet

The image was tweeted by The Weather Channel India.

Punjab will cancel all police cases against farmers who burn stubble, or agricultural waste, Chief Minister Charanjit Channi said Wednesday, as nearby Delhi and the national capital region lie smothered under a toxic and poisonous haze.

The government must persuadefarmers against stubble burning, the Supreme Court said today as it stressed that it does not want to punish them while Delhi and neighbouring cities see an escalating air quality crisis.

Bhartiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait on Tuesday said farmers or stubble burning should not be blamed for air pollution, citing a Supreme Court observation.

Over 67,000 farm fire incidents have been recorded across Punjab this season despite penalties imposed by the authorities and efforts made for management of crop residue.

Delhi's air quality deteriorated marginally on Monday and no improvement is predicted over the next three days.

Farm fires only have a 10 per cent share in Delhi's severe pollution, the central government on Monday told the Supreme Court in a hearing on the air quality crisis in India's capital.

The Centre on Monday told the Supreme Court that stubble burning is not the major cause of worsening air quality in Delhi and northern states, as it contributes to only 10 per cent of the pollution.

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai today said free spraying of bio-decomposer will be ensured in Punjab to curb crop residue burning if his party forms government in the state.

The centre must hold an "emergency" meeting of states neighbouring Delhi to devise a mechanism to deal with crop residue burning due to which the city's air quality has deteriorated, Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai said today.

Delhi recorded its poorest post-Diwali air quality in five years on Friday with a deadly cocktail of noxious fumes from firecrackers and stubble burning pushing the 24-hour average AQI to 462, according to data from Central Pollution Control Board.

Stubble burning accounted for 36 per cent of Delhi's PM2.5 pollution on Friday, the highest this season so far, according to government air quality forecast agency SAFAR.

Sanju, 24, who goes by one name, is among several hundred gig workers in Haryana -- all of them women -- trying to reverse that trend.

All cases against protesting farmers - both in connection with the farm laws agitations and over stubble burning - sources said Wednesday, as part of a revised government proposal urging thousands of farmers to stand down the 15+ months agitation.

After Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar informed that the Centre has decriminalised stubble burning, Bharatiya Kisan Union (Haryana) president Gurnam Singh Chaduni said that those are mere words and nothing has been given in writing yet

The image was tweeted by The Weather Channel India.

Punjab will cancel all police cases against farmers who burn stubble, or agricultural waste, Chief Minister Charanjit Channi said Wednesday, as nearby Delhi and the national capital region lie smothered under a toxic and poisonous haze.

The government must persuadefarmers against stubble burning, the Supreme Court said today as it stressed that it does not want to punish them while Delhi and neighbouring cities see an escalating air quality crisis.

Bhartiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait on Tuesday said farmers or stubble burning should not be blamed for air pollution, citing a Supreme Court observation.

Over 67,000 farm fire incidents have been recorded across Punjab this season despite penalties imposed by the authorities and efforts made for management of crop residue.

Delhi's air quality deteriorated marginally on Monday and no improvement is predicted over the next three days.

Farm fires only have a 10 per cent share in Delhi's severe pollution, the central government on Monday told the Supreme Court in a hearing on the air quality crisis in India's capital.

The Centre on Monday told the Supreme Court that stubble burning is not the major cause of worsening air quality in Delhi and northern states, as it contributes to only 10 per cent of the pollution.

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai today said free spraying of bio-decomposer will be ensured in Punjab to curb crop residue burning if his party forms government in the state.

The centre must hold an "emergency" meeting of states neighbouring Delhi to devise a mechanism to deal with crop residue burning due to which the city's air quality has deteriorated, Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai said today.

Delhi recorded its poorest post-Diwali air quality in five years on Friday with a deadly cocktail of noxious fumes from firecrackers and stubble burning pushing the 24-hour average AQI to 462, according to data from Central Pollution Control Board.

Stubble burning accounted for 36 per cent of Delhi's PM2.5 pollution on Friday, the highest this season so far, according to government air quality forecast agency SAFAR.