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Anti-pollution skincare: can a cream really help you ‘face the city’?

Fiona Westerhout talks about her skin as though she is giving directions in a familiar neighbourhood: oily around the T-zone, dry cheeks, sensitive with the occasional breakout.   Westerhout, 29, had just started blogging about skincare when she and her partner moved from Perth in Western Australia to Shanghai in May 2016. There she found …

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Air pollution costs Indian businesses $95 billion a year – study

Air pollution costs Indian businesses $95 billion every year, or 3% of the country’s Gross Domestic Product, and cuts annual consumer spending by $22 billion, according to a study released on Thursday.   Every year, higher pollution levels shave off $1.3 billion from India’s IT sector in lost productivity, said the study by industry group …

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NGT directs setting up national task force for air pollution monitoring in 124 cities

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the constitution of an eight-member national task force to oversee air quality monitoring of 124 non-attainment cities (NACs) in the country. Headed by the environment secretary, the task force will have members from ministries of housing and urban development, road transport, petroleum, power, agriculture, health, and chairman of …

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Swachh Bharat Abhiyan: Sanitation, purpose and the power of partnerships

The announcement of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan by the Indian government, back in 2014, created tremendous momentum to leapfrog the country towards reaching open defecation free status. By the end of 2020, the mission achieved significant success with a multi-fold increase in access to toilets. Yet, urban poor populations living in informal settlements are disproportionately disadvantaged, …

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Don’t forget air pollution: Beyond Covid there are many silent killers posing grave threat to public wellbeing

Even as a second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic is sweeping across India with surges in rates of infections and number of mortalities, a recently released report by Assocham and the Thought Arbitrage Research Institute, on the risks posed by non-communicable diseases in the country, draws our attention to this under-reported but important healthcare issue. …

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Single law mooted to replace air, water, environment acts

India could soon have a single law governing air, water and environment-related activities, one of the senior-most officials in the environment ministry said on Tuesday. The Union environment ministry plans to table a new environmental management law that will subsume the Air Act 1981, Water Act 1974, and the Environment (Protection) Act 1986 and serve …

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