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A government vehicle sprinkles water to control air pollution in New Delhi. Representative image. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Monitoring India’s clean air programme needs reimagining, suggests analysis

Simrin Sirur 14 Jan 2026
Citizens protest for action against air pollution in New Delhi in November 2025. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

What India can learn from China’s approach to improving air quality [Commentary]

Tanushree Ganguly 14 Jan 2026
Vehicles move through dense smog in New Delhi in December 2025. (AP Photo)

People are leaving cities to escape toxic air

Shweta Thakur Nanda 7 Jan 2026
A farmer burns crop residue after harvest near Bundelkhand expressway, around 330 km from New Delhi. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)

Parliamentary committee makes widespread recommendations to improve air quality

Simrin Sirur 17 Dec 2025
Sushma Devi (in green), a paryavaran sakhi, demonstrates the use of an air quality monitor to women in Mahuda village, Dhanbad. Image courtesy of Deshaj Abhikram.

Grassroots women map air pollution hotspots, spur a coal company to curb dust

Vandana K. 11 Dec 2025
Office goers walk amidst dense smog. (AP Photo)

Air pollution smothers productivity

Shweta Thakur Nanda 8 Dec 2025

It’s been 5 years of the National Clean Air Programme. This is why it hasn’t worked.

Simrin Sirur 2 Sep 2024

Air pollution deaths spotlight need for health-based air quality standards

Simrin Sirur 12 Jul 2024

Stubble burning is back, smothering north India with concerns for the upcoming winter

Vivek Gupta 13 Oct 2022

The disease burden of Delhi’s smog is among the highest in the world

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 8 Jan 2018