-The Hindu Chennai: Completely unprepared for disasters: the hospitals in Chennai — private as well as government — were particularly vulnerable, improvising solutions as the situation developed. As water levels rose, Chennai saw every single system associated with modern life abysmally fail —houses collapsed, Roads caved in, communication networks went down, sewage pipelines were wrecked, and carcasses floated on Roads. Patients in government and private hospitals across the city took a beating. Completely...

-PTI New Delhi: Nearly 10 lakh private cars will daily stay off the Roads in the national capital once the odd-even formula is enforced from January 1, with the drastic reduction in traffic flow expected to significantly reduce the levels of pollution in New Delhi. There are over 19 lakh private four-wheelers registered in Delhi and nearly half of these will go off the Roads with the implementation of AAP government’s ambitious...

-The Indian Express The residents of Nimkheda, a small settlement of 1,674 people in Haryana’s Mewat district, are visibly unsettled and worried Nimkheda (Mewat, Haryana): Dressed in a white salwar-kameez, her dupatta wrapped as a headscarf, an upset Ashubi Khan (55) thumped her right palm with her fist as she spoke in Mewati. “My illiteracy is not my fault, but a reflection of the state’s failure to fulfil its responsibilities. Did our...

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday threw its weight behind efforts to clean up Delhi's air, agreeing to explore various options including banning diesel cars from the Capital's Roads and stopping trucks from passing through the city to tackle the growing menace of pollution. A bench of Chief Justice T S Thakur and Justice R Banumathi expressed shock over the high pollution level in the city and...

-The Hindu The Aam Aadmi Party government in Delhi has announced a slew of measures to address the very poor air quality and pollution in the nation’s capital. It is, in principle, a largely welcome move that could push the needle for anti-pollution measures to be adopted by other Indian cities as well. These are possibly the most significant steps taken after the introduction of Compressed Natural Gas-powered vehicles in the...