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 ...

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 ...

Kolkata: In a significant move to combat air pollution, KMC made real-time air and noise quality monitoring mandatory for all construction sites measuring 20,000 square metres (2.2 lakh sqft ...

The issue of air pollution is rising in Kolkata. While the city’s air quality has not reached the extreme levels like Delhi, it’s still on an alarming rise. Considering this situation ...

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 ...

Kolkata: Air quality in Kolkata has significantly ... along with similar activity during Chhath Puja, raised pollution levels. According to an environmental activist, Somendra Mohan Ghosh ...

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 ...