While air quality monitoring has begun to expand under NCAP to address data deficit, without a methodical system for reporting, it will remain unusable and can't drive change in cities

In India and elsewhere, the electric vehicle story has not quite lived up to the overzealous projections of a few years ago. A course correction is under way

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\"People are more generally aware now. The climate and the environment is a hot topic. But - and it's a big but: From another perspective, pretty much nothing has been done\", says Thunberg

If the proposal is accepted, it would pose a further challenge to authorities in India's capital New Delhi grappling with pollution that can cause lung disease and blights air quality

Over half of India's coal-fired plants are already set to miss a phased deadline starting December 2019 to cut emissions of sulfur oxides, which have been proven to contribute to lung disease

As the head of one of India's largest consumer electric companies, Anil Rai Gupta believes employees matter more than revenues, profits or market share

There is lot of conversion happening from diesel to gasoline and to compressed natural gas but still for most of the long-haul applications, diesels are here to stay for a few years

UN official said to deal with the problem of pollution in the long term, the states had to deal with traffic, industries, construction dust among other sources

According to Ahuja, 2000 MW of power can be produced if 20 million MT of paddy straw estimated to be burned in open fields this season can be utilised completely.

According to an estimate made by China Telecom, the country is expected to be a front-runner in the adoption of 5G services with over 170 million 5G subscribers by next year