-The Hindu Business Line A campaign and fundraiser are trying to persuade farmers in Haryana and Punjab to opt for technology instead of using the polluting method of crop stubble burning in the sowing season this winter October-November are the cruellest months for people living in the National Capital Region. A heavy smog slowly drifts in and hangs in through the winter, sending particulate matter (PM) levels soaring to a hazardous degree....

-The Hindu The former Chief Statistician on calculating GDP back series, on indicators of development, and the fall of the rupee The draft of the back series GDP data, which was made public by the government recently, is unlikely to change drastically even if other methods of calculation are used, says former Chief Statistician of India, Pronab Sen. The noted economist discusses GDP, employment and poverty data; the value of the rupee;...

-CitizenMatters.in Built in the 13th century, Delhi’s Qutb Minar, a UNESCO world heritage site and one of the tallest minarets in the country, is facing stiff competition − from the height of a garbage dump in the national capital. In a recent report, a panel of India’s Parliament noted their observations on landfill sites in Delhi, writing that the “laissez-faire of the civic bodies of Delhi also gets reflected in the fact...

-PTI The NGT has directed the National Mission for Clean Ganga to install display boards at a gap of 100 km to indicate whether the water was fit for bathing or drinking New Delhi: Most of the Ganga river water in the Uttar Pradesh-West Bengal stretch is unfit for drinking and bathing, a map released by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has indicated. The National Green Tribunal last month directed the National...

-Hindustan Times Apart from the deaths in Delhi, the study also showed that Mumbai, which was one of five megacities considered from India, reported the fourth highest number of deaths among 12 megacities. New Delhi: Close to 15,000 people died prematurely in Delhi in 2016 from illnesses linked to fine particulate matter Pollution, according to a new study by researchers from India, Singapore and Thailand that assessed Pollution-related deaths in 13 megacities...