City: Varanasi Citizen Matters

Varanasi’s horrible air quality typical of issues faced by cities of Indo-Gangetic plain

December 19, 2020 Rishabh Shrivastava

An alarming report on air pollution in these plains from the University of Chicago (EPIC) shows that residents here are losing 7.5 years of their lives as a result. What’s causing this?

In Varanasi, COVID haunts the living, denies salvation to the departed

May 11, 2020 Rohit Ghosh

The pandemic has hit everyone in the city hard, from those who cremate the dead to those who depend on pilgrims and tourists.

Monkey business: The oft-ignored menace in our cities

March 3, 2020 Manasi Paresh Kumar

Did you know that the Prime Minister’s vision of a free-wifi Varanasi faces major disruption because of monkeys that chew up the cables regularly? Or that even the elite in Lutyens’ Delhi have to battle the menace every day? Here’s a look at a pressing urban problem that hardly gets the attention it calls for.

Report card: Centre, states did little to improve air quality in 14 most polluted cities

April 10, 2019 Prerna Chatterjee

From Kanpur to Srinagar, from Gurugram to Varanasi, the story of cities in the Gangetic plains is similar – air pollution levels are extremely high, governments apathetic and inactive.

City buzz: Mumbai water crisis | Delhi ban on non-CNG vehicles | New port at Varanasi… and more

November 17, 2018 News Desk

What’s keeping Mumbai parched? What are the latest measures being mulled in Delhi to combat pollution? Which housing projects will be exempt from prior green clearance? A look back at the important headlines from India’s cities this week.