Ozone spikes, Haryana’s Ballabhgarh among India’s worst | Gurgaon News

Unlike particulate pollution, which is often concentrated around emission sources, ozone can travel long distances Gurgaon: Haryana is among the country’s emerging ozone hotspots. Ground-level ozone has emerged as a growing air quality concern in Haryana even as particulate pollution remained relatively subdued during May.Twelve of the state’s 30 monitoring stations recorded breaches of national…

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Bhadralok candidates help BJP dent TMC bastions | Kolkata News

Kolkata: The ‘bhadralok’ neighbourhoods of Kolkata North and South decisively flipped and voted out the Trinamool govt. For over a decade, these very urban localities were considered impenetrable fortresses of the Trinamool. But the election results revealed a metropolitan electorate that traded its traditional allegiance for a “new beginning” under the BJP.Political science professor Maidul…

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