New Delhi woke to toxic smog on Tuesday after Diwali revellers defied a firecracker ban and risked jail to celebrate the annual Hindu festival. According to international monitoring company IQAir, harmful PM 2.5 particles surged to 350 on the air quality index — more than three times the reading a day earlier. The reading for […]
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LHC orders to implement smog emergency in Punjab
Ahead of the winter season, the Lahore High Court (LHC) has directed the authorities concerned to impose a smog emergency in Punjab. According to details, Justice Shahid Jamil heard a petition, demanding the government to take action to control the smog in the province. Moreover, the LHC directed Chief Secretary Punjab to summon a meeting […]
New Delhi on top of AQI list, Lahore on second
LAHORE: On Tuesday, Indian capital city New Delhi remain on top of the list of the most polluted cities in the world having worst air quality, as Lahore ranks second. According to the Air Quality Index, India’s New Delhi is first in the list with 335 index points, while Lahore remained second with 264 points. […]
Lahore tops the list of most polluted cities
LAHORE: Lahore continues to top the list of the world cities having worst air quality on Tuesday. Despite scores of administrative steps taken by the city authorities and judicial monitoring of pollution, Lahore remained the most polluted city of the world with average 317 reading on the Air Quality Index (AQI). Maximum pollution with 471 […]
Punjab suffers from air pollution caused by farm fires and industry
The smoke residue of burning crops, brick kilns, and industry chimneys continue to cause severe air pollution in parts of Punjab. Air pollution is on the rise in Lahore, Faisalabad, Gujranwala, and Bahawalpur, according to reports. The police have been ordered to work along with the district administration and other authorities to reduce the province’s […]
Lahore second most polluted city after New Delhi
LAHORE: Lahore remained the second most polluted city in the world on Saturday, after New Delhi, despite multiple steps taken by the government for improving the air quality. Lahore remained the second worst city on the Air Quality Index in the world after Indian capital New Delhi, with the particulate matter measured at 303 in […]
Lahore engulfed by smog every winter due to lack of leadership in past: Fawad
JHELUM: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain on Saturday lashed out the past rulers of Punjab for causing substantial damage to its capital city’s green cover which had adversely affected air quality in Lahore. “We see Lahore as engulfed by fog in every winter due to past rulers of Lahore who had cut […]
Delhi wheezing in dangerously unhealthy air due to Diwali
The morning after Diwali, the festival of lights, residents of New Delhi woke up to a blanket of toxic smog and breathed in the most dangerously polluted air of the year so far, after revellers, as usual, defied a fireworks ban. New Delhi has the worst air quality of all world capitals, but even by […]
Shahbaz urges India to join hands to counter smog
LAHORE: In a letter to his Indian counterpart, Captain (r) Amarinder Singh, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said that collective effort was required to counter smog. Shahbaz wrote that the smog for two years, smog has appeared in the months of October and November and has been the cause of damage to agriculture due to […]
Lahore’s smog returns
Once again its the time of the year, when Lahore it seems gets covered with a nasty and almost irritating smog. A haze of thick pollutant smog covers the sky blocking out the sun, obstructing the view when you drive or walk on the road and we hear reports of citizens complaining about the ailments […]