Kolkata recorded a marginal decrease in air pollution level during 2024 compared to 2023, but still stands as the second most polluted metro city in the country after Delhi and within the 2 per cent ...

Kolkata's air quality reached "very unhealthy ... deteriorated steadily as cracker activity increased. Noise pollution also spiked significantly, particularly in silence zones near hospitals ...

Delhi, located in the land-locked Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP) with adverse meteorology, has recorded the highest level of pollution during winter, Kolkata — also at the tip of the IGP — ranks ...

As per the 2018 Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) survey, Chennai is the noisiest metro city in India, followed by ...

Air shade management and multi sectoral approach key to counter city’s air pollution with focus on transport and waste burning Pockets of the Kolkata showed pollution surges much above the national ...

Ballygunge had the highest pollution levels and the most number of bad air days. KOLKATA: Kolkata's air quality improved this winter with the average PM2.5 concentration dropping to 65 micrograms ...

An Eastern Railways spokesperson told PTI that the Railways will explain its stand over the issue once it gets the letter from the West Bengal government but asserted that issues of sanitation ...

It stands behind Delhi and Kolkata, despite being in an advantageous ... marked by numerous locations with higher than average pollution levels, says the study by executive director, Research ...

The concentration rose from 215 μg/m3 (PM10) and 116 μg/m3 (PM2.5) in 2014. Pollution soared in Kolkata in just one year. This report stated that the PM10 and PM2.5 were 136 μg/m3 and 74 μg/m3 ...

Kolkata: One in every 10 patients ... which was connected to age and propounded by noise pollution. However, the emergence of earphones has turned the tables on the younger population, who ...