Tag Archives: Delhi

Top 20 most polluted cities in the world

Posted on May 12, 2014 by Respro® UK Ltd

Air quality in most cities that monitor their pollution levels exceed what the World Health Organization deems as safe. Delhi has the highest level of the airborne particulate matter, PM2.5 considered most harmful to health, with 153 micrograms. Not far … Continue reading →

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India admits Delhi matches Beijing for air pollution threatening public health

Posted on May 9, 2014 by Respro® UK Ltd

India’s state air monitoring centre has admitted that pollution in Delhi is comparable to that of Beijing, but disputed a World Health Organisation (WHO) finding that the Indian capital had the dirtiest atmosphere in the world. A study of 1,600 … Continue reading →

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Road ministry to scrap trucks and buses more than eight years old to combat air pollution

Posted on April 9, 2014 by Respro® UK Ltd

This is one drive that is definitely going to make the Capital’s air cleaner and traffic flow smoother. The road ministry is planning to create ‘end of life’ directives with a cap of eight years for commercial vehicles, thereby pulling … Continue reading →

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‘Emission inventory’ is 1st step to predicting city’s air pollution

Posted on March 10, 2014 by Respro® UK Ltd

Next week, Mumbai will finally get an emission inventory – a database that will help predict the extent of air pollution for up to 72 hours in advance and also help detect its source. The inventory is the very first … Continue reading →

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Pollution increasing lung cancer in Indian women

Posted on February 6, 2014 by Respro® UK Ltd

In a worrying trend noted by oncologists, lung cancer is increasing rapidly among Indian women. The foremost reason, much against popular perception, is not smoking but environmental pollution. India has just slipped 32 ranks in the global Environment Performance Index … Continue reading →

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‘Delhi air pollution higher than Beijing’ report denied

Posted on January 31, 2014 by Respro® UK Ltd

The head of an environment measurement index has denied media reports suggesting it found air quality in the Indian capital, Delhi, to be worse than the China’s capital, Beijing. The Environmental Preference Index did not rank cities as it did … Continue reading →

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5 Things to Know About Delhi’s Air Pollution

Posted on December 20, 2013 by Respro® UK Ltd

New Delhi has been engulfed in a dense blanket of smog – a mix of fog, car exhaust and manufacturing soot – in recent days. A look at what prompted skyrocketing levels of pollution and tips on how to get … Continue reading →

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Delhi, Kolkata have worst air quality in India

Posted on October 21, 2013 by Respro® UK Ltd

With the World Heath Organization’s (WHO) International Agency for Research on Cancer declaring air pollution as a major cause of cancer, its findings have put the focus on Indian hotspots like Delhi, West Bengal, Maharashtra and Jharkhand which showed high … Continue reading →

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