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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")
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")
Action plan for Delhi
Pollution requires a holistic response
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'
 "Delhi air pollution: US tech to convert rice stubble into biofuel, not smog")
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 pollution: Plans to curb stubble burning remain a non-starter
Oil companies yet to start procuring stubble, agri-mechanisation remains half-baked
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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")
Air pollution: NGT for allowance to labourers hit by Delhi construction ban
The green panel said daily-wage workers who depend on construction sites to make a living are worst sufferers of the ban on construction activities as they have been rendered jobless
These techies freshen up the air for Delhi's pollution-hit bike riders
Innovative helmets use patented technologies to provide clean air to the breathing area
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Air pollution: Need to buy air purifier? Here's how to pick the right one
Here are the factors that you should consider before zeroing in on an air purifier to buy
Delhi pollution: AQI still in 'severe' category, Odd-even enters Day 2
The odd-even scheme, which kickstarted on Monday has entered Day 2 with only odd-numbered non-transport vehicles allowed on Delhi roads
 "Delhi pollution: AQI still in 'severe' category, Odd-even enters Day 2")
Thick cloud of toxic smog in Delhi presents a new challenge for airlines
As many as 37 flights were diverted on Sunday due to poor visibility caused by high concentration of smog in and around the Delhi airport
 "Thick cloud of toxic smog in Delhi presents a new challenge for airlines")
From masks to putting off events, how embassies are coping with Delhi air
The embassy spokesperson said N95 masks are being provided for the staffers, particularly those required to spend time outside
 "From masks to putting off events, how embassies are coping with Delhi air")
Air pollution: 'We are helpless', say Punjab farmers on stubble burning
'The government should give us subsidy on machinery which we buy from other than the empanelled suppliers', says a farmer
 "Air pollution: 'We are helpless', say Punjab farmers on stubble burning")
Air pollution issue: NGT to summon Delhi, central govt officials on Tuesday
The Supreme Court earlier issued directions to Delhi-NCR to stop construction, demolition and garbage burning activities
Don't blame farmers for air pollution, set up rice bio-parks: Swaminathan
In South India, stubble is not burnt as there is economic value as animal feed, he said sharing he had been pointing out for years many economic usage of rice straw.
 "Don't blame farmers for air pollution, set up rice bio-parks: Swaminathan")
Pollution control: UP to implement odd-even scheme, says minister
UP Forest Minister said the Police Department will tell us when they are going to implement this
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Many people not fully aware of odd-even scheme, say Delhi residents
The Odd-Even scheme, an initiative of the Delhi government, will be in force till November 15
 "Many people not fully aware of odd-even scheme, say Delhi residents")
SC pulls up state govts for bad Delhi air, says stubble burning must stop
Justice Arun Mishra further remarked that people were not safe inside their own houses and it was unacceptable in a civilised country
You have left people to die: SC slams authorities over Delhi pollution
A bench of Justices Arun Mishra and Deepak Gupta took serious note of crop burning in Punjab, Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh and said it cannot go unabated every year
