Just when one thought that the city could not get any noisier, it did. The numerous flyovers under construction along with the massive Metro Rail project snaking through the city have resulted in high

India has the worst air quality in the world, beating even its neighbour China, according to an annual survey based at Yale and Columbia universities in the United States.

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China has detained seven company executives after suspected industrial waste discharges polluted a river with toxic cadmium, threatening drinking supplies for millions, state media said on Tuesday.

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Authorities in China have swooped into action to monitor drinking water safety more closely after cadmium pollution, caused by a mining firm, has been found downstream of a China river.

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Air pollution in Beijing reached 'hazardous' levels on Monday, the US embassy said, as thick smog blanketed the city for the third day running, forcing the closure of highways and cancellation of flig

In an effort to control dangerous levels of pollution, the Italian city of Milan is set to ban vehicles from the street on Sunday - for up to 10 hours, the BBC has reported.

The measure was first imp

New Delhi: Eighteen per cent of water supplied by the Delhi Jal Board is unfit for drinking and every fifth person in the city is consuming contaminated water, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi's Pub

Black thick tar balls that surfaced in various beaches in Goa will now be sent to oil refineries to avoid further pollution.

Goa Tourism minister, Mr Nilkant Halarnkar, said, "truck loads of tar bal

There were no reports of fresh oil spill from a cargo ship which collided with another vessel off the Mumbai coast even as anti-pollution operations are still on to neutralise the oil effect, Coast Gu