The Times of India – Online

As the season in which NCR and other parts of north India see AQI rise past 400 approaches, every headline that gives hope that this year shall be different is being read with bated breath. One promising development is that around half of Punjab’s paddy cultivation area has been sown with the short-duration variety, PR-126. Punjab Agricultural University had released it in 2017, but this year it got a big boost from the heavy rains. The calculation is that because it matures early and produces less stubble, this paddy variety will lower air pollution. In other good news, a startup mentored by IIT-Delhi has tested a device that reduced PM2.5 and PM10 in ...