Environment

India’s draft BS7 rules regulate brake and tyre emissions from April 2031.

GRAP Stage 1 has been imposed across Delhi-NCR over poor air quality.

BS7 standards will roll out in three phases from April 2029.

Bro, the way they treat your car like it’s got a year-long lease on life before needing a PUCC is wild! Like, is my car getting a diploma or something?

Supreme Court suggested prominent personalities, including Virat Kohli, promote cracker-free Diwali awareness.

India’s Constitution protects rights to clean air, safe water, and a pollution-free environment.

Early planning could reduce Delhi-NCR pollution from Diwali fireworks.

Delhi will ban all construction from December 10 through January 20.

Festival pollution in Mumbai leaves children coughing and vulnerable people breathless.

An under-construction building collapsed in Delhi’s Harsh Vihar, killing two workers.

Residents of Lyari are not receiving adequate water supplies.

Cement and paving around Mumbai trees restrict air and water reaching roots.

Twenty-two-year-old Bablu died after an electrified wire fell into rainwater.

India reached 40% non-fossil installed electricity capacity in November 2021.

India cannot solve climate change alone because its causes are largely global.

Google’s $15 billion Vizag data centre faces backlash over regional water scarcity.

Women and children in a Kolkata slum walk 1.5 kilometres for water.

Ghaziabad residents are digging 1,200 feet underground for water.

Muslim residents allege Kolkata water supplies were cut for not voting BJP.

Mumbai's seven reservoirs held nearly 5% capacity on June 22.

Sirsa urges Delhi’s no-PUC, no-fuel rule, with ANPR camera monitoring.

Delhi parking charges double from November 1, 2026, through February 28, 2027.

Delhi’s no-PUC, no-fuel rule will use ANPR cameras to monitor refuelling.

Delhi's complete construction-demolition ban runs December 10 through January 20.

Bihar flood assessment teams must deliver aid, not become mere formalities.

Heavy rain caused waterlogging in Varanasi as Ganga water levels rose.

Heavy rain caused widespread waterlogging across Delhi, Gurugram and Noida.

Noida International Airport was waterlogged weeks after opening.

A Gurgaon IFFCO Chowk service-road pothole threatens vehicles and lives.

Gurugram faces daily traffic congestion, road deterioration, flooding, and chaotic urban planning.

Rao Inderjit calls Gurugram’s waterlogging fixes temporary band-aid solutions.

75 millimetres of rain brought Gurugram’s major roads to a standstill.

Congress-era development blocked Gurugram's old drains, worsening flooding from hill runoff.

Gurugram's roads, water and drainage are promised to improve by 2047.

UN warns millions across the Himalayas face future glacial flood risks.

A glacier collapse at 5,200 metres breached a debris dam, unleashing a deadly flood.

A glacier collapse in Nepal’s Rasuwa district triggered a deadly GLOF.

Wayanad officials ordered soil and debris removal on the 20th.

Chinese national rescued from flood-affected Upper Trishuli 1 hydropower tunnel.

Sikkim’s South Lhonak Lake highlights flood risks extending into Darjeeling and Bengal.

Attributing disasters to climate change requires long-term regional observations.

An ice-rock avalanche near Nepal-Tibet border may have triggered catastrophic floods.

A UN-led study identified 407 glacial lakes vulnerable to outburst floods across the Himalayas.

Nepal’s flood disaster has prompted ongoing rescue and relief operations.