Delhi hasn’t done enough to contain COVID-19, Centre tells Supreme Court

Affidavit lists lack of testing, beds, contact-tracing

Experts welcome Delhi government’s electric vehicle policy

The policy aims to make a quarter of all new vehicle registrations battery-operated by 2024

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 23, 2020)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 14, 2020)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

COVID-19 deaths may be more than what’s reported: WHO

Is Delhi govt not counting deaths caused due to comorbidities as COVID-19 deaths?

COVID-19: Delhi govt says there is community transmission, Centre says no

Delhi health minister says source of more than half cases could not be traced

Delhi notifies first-ever parking rules to restrain vehicle use, cut air pollution

The rule probibits parking in green areas, parks, footpaths, bus stops and intersections

Need parking policy to entitle every citizen to dignified life, says Supreme Court

The apex court upholds parking rules as a clean air strategy and asks for its implementation  

Take a decision on draft parking rules, Supreme Court tells Delhi govt

The apex court has given the government 10 days to decide and also give an undertaking on the schedule of bus purchase

Delhi’s dilemma

Why statehood is no answer to the city’s pollution mess

Delhi government releases plan to tackle water shortage

Groundwater from the Palla-Wazirabad floodplain in the city can reduce the pressure on the water supply system

Second phase of odd-even scheme to be back in April

The government is “seriously considering” making odd-even mandatory for 15 days every month

How other countries are experimenting with odd-even system

“Don’t touch my car” syndrome at cost of our health

It is ironical that the city has paced up action on commercial and public transport vehicles in the city – trucks, buses, autos and taxis &…

Choked Delhi to halve number of vehicles on its roads

About 75 per cent of days in November were found to be 'severely polluted' with PM2.5 levels four times higher than the prescribed limit

Delhi to reuse 80 per cent sewage by 2027

With no new dams in sight, the draft Delhi Water Policy, 2013 calls for reuse of treated sewage to achieve water security in the capital

Draft notification on eco-sensitive zone around Okhla Bird Sanctuary cleared

Government brings eco-sensitive zone around Okhla Bird Sanctuary from 10 km, as suggested by NGT, to 1 km

Delhi government bans sale of Maggi in stores

A total of 13 packets were tested and it was found that 10 contained lead more than the prescribed limit of 2.5 parts per million

Delhi government exempts small industries from seeking environmental clearance

The decision is likely to benefit 500 kinds of processes which required consent from Delhi Pollution Control Board earlier

Delhi government puts cap of Rs 4,500 on H1N1 test

Private labs were reportedly charging as high as Rs 10,000 for a single test

Delhi set to centralise drug and equipment procurement

The move will help government to regulate the drug prices by ensuring their availability

Pigs tested positive for JE may not be from MP, say officials

Say the city is not disease endemic

Delhi imposes blanket ban on plastic carry bags

Earlier ban was only partial and had little effect on manufacturers 

Air pollution: CSE releases agenda for Aam Aadmi Party government

Delhi cannot face another winter as severely polluted as this, says the non-profit

Five-in-one vaccine now available for free in Delhi healthcare facilities

Activists concerned about deaths caused by pentavalent vaccine