Mallica Joshi

There are no national or international acceptable standards for PM1 concentration in the air, unlike those for PM2.5 and PM10. But studies across the world have indicated a link between the pollutant and cardio-vascular disease.

According to the Ministry of Earth Science’s System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research (SAFAR), air quality will worsen on Thursday and Friday.

Transport and mobility experts have repeatedly raised these issues, and have said that building FOBs and subways shows that the government gives priority to vehicular traffic instead of pedestrians.

According to Puri, the initial understanding between the Centre and the Delhi government was that the former would fund 80% of the project, while the remaining 20% would be provided by the Delhi government.

The Indian Express tries to understand what makes the capital especially vulnerable, and why incentives to farmers have failed to yield desired results

According to farmers in Haryana, there has been a surge of around 25 per cent in diesel prices in October 2018 compared to the same time last year.

Every October, the air quality in Delhi, Punjab and Haryana plummets as farmers set the leftover stubble and loose straw on fire after paddy is harvested using combines. And this time, too, the smoke signals from the fields are ominous 

According to a senior forest department official, plantations, which are done by the forest department, survive the best. The government has ordered a third-party audit of other plantation sites in the city.

"Now we know that at a short notice a mob can assemble. It will want justice here and now. Society appears to be on a short fuse, and at times lacking a sense of humour," said Justice S Muralidhar said.

“Over the past few months, things have started warming up between the few disgruntled MLAs and the party and this was evident in Assembly sessions where both Pushkar and Sehrawat have been supporting the party stand,” AAP spokesperson Saurabh Bharadwaj said.

Design flaws, multiplicity of agencies and lackadaisical desilting — the capital’s waterlogging woes can be blamed on many things. The Indian Express try to understand why...

The complainants allege that trees were cut without permission to expand the smaller golf course, and the evidence was buried in pits. An FIR has also been registered in the matter against the club.

The High Court had passed the order on the petition against redevelopment in seven south Delhi colonies, to be carried out by National Buildings Construction Corporation (NBCC) and Central Public Works Department (CPWD).

The case was filed by environment activists after it was reported that the project would require chopping of at least 14,000 trees for vertical expansion.

In the process of redesigning the redevelopment plans for seven government colonies in South Delhi, chairperson-cum-managing director of the National Buildings Construction Corporation, Anoop Kumar Mittal, says they are conducting a tree census in Sarojini Nagar to find out the age, trunk girth and species of trees. 

Despite framing rules, proposing fines and starting ‘model colonies’, waste segregation in the capital has failed to take off. With mountains of garbage continuing to grow, The Indian Express reports on the challenges before authorities.

Interception of these drains means their flow is checked before they reach the Yamuna, sewage is treated, and the water is either re-routed into the river or recycled.

The departure of senior leaders Ashutosh and Khetan have led to a decrease in the number of trusted senior leaders.

The party has reached out to former supporters and is organising small meets across the city to receive feedback and address any concerns they might have about the functioning of the party.