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In a letter to Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav, Rai expressed concerns about the anticipated decline in air quality due to Diwali fireworks and stubble burning in neighbouring states. He called for an emergency meeting with NCR states to address the issue.

Air quality in Delhi-NCR has deteriorated over the past week due to a gradual drop in temperatures, calm winds that trap pollution, and an increase in post-harvest paddy straw burning across Punjab and Haryana.

The Bharatiya Janata Party is blaming Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for the air pollution problem in Delhi, but he is not responsible for the poor air quality in Uttar Pradesh and Haryana, says the Delhi Environment Minister

While Delhi grapples with ‘severe’ air pollution, Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) convened a meeting on Friday to discuss the adoption of enhanced curbs to be taken to control the situation

Delhi Minister Gopal Rai called upon Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav to be "active" in addressing the deteriorating air quality in the national capital region, emphasising that entire North India is battling air pollution.

Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai called upon his Union counterpart Bhupender Yadav on Friday to become "active" in addressing the air pollution problem, emphasising that its not just the national capital but the entire North India that is breathing polluted air. At a press conference held

As Delhi’s air pollution touched hazardous category, a political slugfest erupted between the AAP and the BJP as the former hit out at the Central government over the rising air pollution advising the Union Minister Bhupendra Yadav to become active while the latter held the Arvind Kejriwal

The Supreme Court on Tuesday remarked that the Delhi government cannot sue or be sued through its elected ministers.The oral observation was made by a bench comprising Justices S.K. Kaul, Sudhanshu Dhulia and Prashant Kumar Mishra as it heard a ...

Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. Reena Gupta, in a press conference, said, "People in Northern India are suffering due to air pollution, but the Central Government lacks any action plan to control it. The surprising thing is that on October 24, the Central Government shut down that database. They closed the SAFAR website because we began raising our voices that 70 per cent of Delhi's air pollution is coming from outside Delhi, most of which is from BJP-rul...

Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai said on Tuesday that the government is making an "all-round" preparation to combat pollution