Page 22 - Latest Updates on Air Quality Index
Best of BS Opinion: Solutions for telecom crisis, RCEP deal, and more
Here's a selection of Business Standard Opinion pieces for the day
 "Best of BS Opinion: Solutions for telecom crisis, RCEP deal, and more")
Uber is navigating its way through Delhi smog, launches new campaign
Pollution in the Capital is churning the conversation mills globally, the American ride-hailing and sharing service pitches in
 "Uber is navigating its way through Delhi smog, launches new campaign")
A plan to check stubble burning: Kejriwal, Harsimrat share viable options
Punjab had on Tuesday recorded the season's highest farm fire count of 6,668 despite a recent Supreme Court order to completely halt stubble burning
 "A plan to check stubble burning: Kejriwal, Harsimrat share viable options")
Letter to BS: Farmers can make wooden boards out of rice stubble
It is a widely used technology in the West
Letter to BS: Crackers, farmers not the only reason for air pollution
We tend to somehow ignore the bigger causes of our misery that haunt us throughout the year
 "Letter to BS: Crackers, farmers not the only reason for air pollution")
Give UP, Haryana, Punjab farmers machines to help stop stubble burning: PM
This came on a day the Supreme Court lashed out at authorities for failing to curb severe air pollution in the Delhi-NCR region.
 "Give UP, Haryana, Punjab farmers machines to help stop stubble burning: PM")
Delhi air pollution: SC raps states, asks 'how can you let people die'
Venugopal said that areas in Punjab and Haryana can be divided into zones and stubble burning can be allowed in a particular zone on a given day.
 "Delhi air pollution: SC raps states, asks 'how can you let people die'")
Greed, not fear, will remove Delhi smog
The reliance on perception of fear of the law will not solve this problem
 "Greed, not fear, will remove Delhi smog")
Odd-even: Parents ask if they'll be fined after dropping children to school
Cars with children in school uniform are allowed to ply irrespective of their registration numbers under the road rationing scheme
 "Odd-even: Parents ask if they'll be fined after dropping children to school")
Air pollution: Best air purifiers and masks that can help you breathe easy
Business Standard lists five anti-pollution gears that may be most efficient during poor and hazardous air quality in your city
 "Air pollution: Best air purifiers and masks that can help you breathe easy")
Tourists turn their back on Delhi as air pollution reaches record levels
Rising pollution levels is an added problem for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is trying to reverse an economic slowdown as he seeks to lure investors to the South Asia nation
Relief for Delhi-NCR as air quality improves to 'very poor' category
Gurgaon, Faridabad, Noida and Ghaziabad too recorded 'very poor' overall air quality
 "Relief for Delhi-NCR as air quality improves to 'very poor' category")
Best of BS Opinion: Delhi air pollution, a retreat from RCEP, and more
Here's a selection of Business Standard Opinion pieces for the day
 "Best of BS Opinion: Delhi air pollution, a retreat from RCEP, and more")
Delhi air pollution: US tech to convert rice stubble into biofuel, not smog
The United States Trade Development Authority (USTDA) signed up to allocate a grant of $300,000-500,00 to Indian engineering firm, The Virgo Group, to carry out a 'scoping study'
Action plan for Delhi
Pollution requires a holistic response
Letters to BS: Common man needs fresh air, not toxic politics around it
The common man finds himself helpless, as always, hoping that better sense would prevail among the authorities, coaxing them to do the needful
 "Letters to BS: Common man needs fresh air, not toxic politics around it")
Delhi air quality improves as high-speed wind blows away pollutants
The air quality index in the national capital dropped from 365 at 9.45 am to 309 at 9 pm, according to the Central Pollution Control Board
Delhi air pollution: Plans to curb stubble burning remain a non-starter
Oil companies yet to start procuring stubble, agri-mechanisation remains half-baked
Air pollution: SC terms Delhi situation 'shocking', summons chief secretary
The bench expressed its anguish that authorities have "violated with impunity" the directions passed by the apex court as well the high courts in pollution matter
 "Air pollution: SC terms Delhi situation 'shocking', summons chief secretary")
NGT stresses the need for a system to forecast public health emergency
The tribunal suggested that people can be communicated about health emergency through public broadcasters like Doordarshan
 "NGT stresses the need for a system to forecast public health emergency")
